Hi all, my brother in law's Snap On stock got turned over. He's up in the North East so if anyone up that way could keep an eye and ear out for people fencing on cheap Snap On stuff and let me know, it'd be appreciated.
Cheers.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Don't care
Out and about yesterday on one of my favourite little runs and spotted this in a pull off. Stopped and chatted with the guy and gave him some more road recommendations and then we were away.
Trying to find an open hostelry can sometimes be rather difficult. Should have brought a thermos with us. High points include going into a bend that wasn't the 2nd gear screamer I thought but was actually a 1st gear switchback, and riding alongside a Red Kite that was just over the hedge.
Trying to find an open hostelry can sometimes be rather difficult. Should have brought a thermos with us. High points include going into a bend that wasn't the 2nd gear screamer I thought but was actually a 1st gear switchback, and riding alongside a Red Kite that was just over the hedge.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Not forgotten
Kickstart pawl freed off, meaning I can kick the bike over now, big sighs of relief as I thought I was going to have to split the cases. Baffle made for the Remus BSB race silencer. Cross screen filter on 50mm lens.Roscoe P Coltrane somewhat nonplussed by all the going ons.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Volusia AMA Flat Track
Pics in no particular order, but on a tip off from Mr Inman at Sideburn, my first day on holiday in Florida was spent at the AMA All-Stars Flat Track race at Volusia Speedway, De Leon Springs, Florida. Poor weather forecasting had put attendees off apparently, but still it was just fine for us, we even managed to get sunburned a little.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Ped final
The race was long and hot, this was May, I think the temp was somewhere in the high 20'Cs. Anyway it was hot enough to leave leathers soaked.
Our usual stints were 20 min each, with Phil as team lap counter and Sarah and Michelle as pit ladies, flagging us in when needed.
Jay in flight over the jump-
Phil telling Jay to pit next lap-
Fuelling up on changeover-
Jumping for joy (my back was knackered at the end of the day)-
Brake late and deep and fire it out-
We finished 3rd in class (50cc 2T) and were properly chuffed with it.
Our usual stints were 20 min each, with Phil as team lap counter and Sarah and Michelle as pit ladies, flagging us in when needed.
Jay in flight over the jump-
Phil telling Jay to pit next lap-
Fuelling up on changeover-
Jumping for joy (my back was knackered at the end of the day)-
Brake late and deep and fire it out-
We finished 3rd in class (50cc 2T) and were properly chuffed with it.
More ped
Well I might as well carry on.
Competition being what it is we wanted more speed. More parts were purchased, including a larger carb (19mm), reeds, rollers and different springs. We also changed from a pod air filter to a composite affair (using slug pellet tubs) that allowed us three external filters to fit over the pod filter. Wittering was a dusty track to race at and power losses due to clogged air filters were common. With our three filters we were able to quickly spin on a fresh filter, clean the dirty one, and have a third drying and ready to go.
Testing was undertaken in a local field with a scrap find C90 for comparison.
Observe the wheels still in pre-race colours, and the foam bar pad. Other changes were a respray in silver flake with candy green over the top, and daytona yellow details. The seat material was changed form the outrageous poodle fur, to black faux crocodile skin vinyl.
Testing was positive after we had played about with jetting adjustments, and the ped was faster than the C90.
Finally we were all ready to go
Notice the mudguard detail with direction of travel arrow, and tasteful green handgrips.
Either Jay or I, I think it was me, had made a paddock stand as well, and come race day we were good to go.
Competition being what it is we wanted more speed. More parts were purchased, including a larger carb (19mm), reeds, rollers and different springs. We also changed from a pod air filter to a composite affair (using slug pellet tubs) that allowed us three external filters to fit over the pod filter. Wittering was a dusty track to race at and power losses due to clogged air filters were common. With our three filters we were able to quickly spin on a fresh filter, clean the dirty one, and have a third drying and ready to go.
Testing was undertaken in a local field with a scrap find C90 for comparison.
Observe the wheels still in pre-race colours, and the foam bar pad. Other changes were a respray in silver flake with candy green over the top, and daytona yellow details. The seat material was changed form the outrageous poodle fur, to black faux crocodile skin vinyl.
Testing was positive after we had played about with jetting adjustments, and the ped was faster than the C90.
Finally we were all ready to go
Notice the mudguard detail with direction of travel arrow, and tasteful green handgrips.Either Jay or I, I think it was me, had made a paddock stand as well, and come race day we were good to go.
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