Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Its a waiting game now!

I have ordered some new parts and a service kit for the Del Orto carb from Eurocarb Ltd and hopefully they should be with me in the next few days, so to be prepared for them I stripped and cleaned the carb. I would have liked to have had cleaned in the Ultrasonic cleaner which woulkd take time, something that I dont have a lot of. The bike needs to be race ready in just over two weeks and the motor still has to be built! DOH.
I also sprayed the exhausts after they were sand blasted by Nick, (BPS), just hope I can remember what pipe goes where?

I had fitted the longer rear brake line to the front while I was working out the caliper bracket so I changed the line for one that Ash had kindly donated, and to my surprise it only took about 15 minutes with rebleeding the system too, I must be geeting good.

Steve has said the engine will be ready for this weekend. I had to order another gear lever where the link arm is facing uppermost as the one I have impedes on the exhaust mount. Also picked up the repaired rear wheel from Abba ltd, they have done a fine job but alas the front wheel was too damaged to repair so Im on the look out for a TZ front 17" x 3.5" for the wets.

Ash will be taking the bike when its running to have the rear caliper mount made, hopefully he can turn it around pretty quick because I would really like to get the bike on the dyno before the first race just to see what the motor is kicking out.

My namesake in Indiana seems to have sorted his jetting problem but he wont know until he has a blast at his "Out Laws" place in the country, hope it goes to plan Dave.











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I have been racing motorcycles on/off for over 25 years, (but unfortunately not very well"!!!!),and although I officially retired from racing at the end of 2008 an offer has been made to me to contest the 2010 Supermono Cup on a very famous bike, "Gordon"