Last Race Of The Season

Now we have a long winter ahead of us until the first race next year in May. This season we joined the SCTA Club, 'Milers' and met lots of nice people, of course we gained lots of experience too. Our best official time was 116.345 MPH, we are pretty happy with the result, even though we had the potential to do better. After the '56 Triumph project, the racing bike "Kursed" will go through a complete rebuild including new design sheet metal components. The new 2012 Kursed V2 build will be published here after April, our goal is to have the total redesigned racing bike ready for Bonneville Speed Week August 2012.

Some pictures from our last race at El Mirage;

Woody's beautiful Harley-Aermacchi

Blessings from The Great Doug Robinson *insert epic conversation and music*

We loved this car, Captain Nemo would probably too

Aryan send me this picture, Thank you

Jay and Tim closing the season, ready to leave the lake bed  

ELMO Race Weekend, Oct. 23

Sunday morning waiting in line for tech-inspection.

Jay putting on fresh numbers

SCTA Chief Motorcycle Inspector Tom Evans making sure my pre-war front end is secured

Shooting the wind between races.

A fellow triumph racer just about to take off.

Keeping cool..

Norton 16H Front End

This one belongs to the "Redesigning The 1956 Triumph" project. It is a very nice heavy duty pre-war girder with rebound springs that i'm reconditioning. 

The threads are fixed, some rust has been taken care of and new 26 TPI nuts installed. Next i will need to make some friction plates and then it will be totally striped/cleaned and ready for paint.

Documentation

Not bad,

Revving up to 6800+ in the 4th Gear.

The new rebuild gearbox and the sprocket combination worked well. Honestly, at the end of the video I rolled off the throttle seeing it was still revving up, I figured i had enough for the day..

Final Ratio?

Rebuilding a different ratio gearbox..

Large sprockets are cool, only if you have the hp though..

Now we need to test the bike with the new handlebar design and gears.

Mods Continue..

Narrow handlebars;

At the Dry Lake Bed

What a bummer, we couldn't run because of a clutch issue..

There are two more race weekends this season at El Mirage, we have time to fix the issues and get back on the race course..

Getting ready for El Mirage..

Total re-build after speed-week.

Hopefully we'll make it..

Jalika's Seat pad

She did such a professional job. All hand sewn out of real high quality elk leather.  i'm so proud of her.  She already got an order..

bikerMetric

My trip to Bonneville for 2011 Speed Week on "bikerMetric".
Thanks Trent,

Somewhere in Nevada in the Mojave desert

Our timing slip

113.275 MPH Pre-Unit 650cc Salt Flat Racer

We did great and achieved an official run of 113.275 MPH.
Tyler at "Lowbrow Customs" thanks for helping Jay and I out at one of our first runs & congrats on your record!

2011 Bonneville Speed Week

We had a great week, officially and off the books.. will upload more images and info soon.

Finally ready to hit the Salt Flats..

Just finished working on the bike and will leave within hours..

One week to Speed Week..

And i'm still working on my racing bike.

Still to do;
Electrical & Wiring Parts, number plates, lanyard-type fuel shut off valve, brake lines, install seat.. probably more?

'52 dual intake manifolds

Just finished the intake manifolds for the Bonneville racing bike. They have a special tunnel design which is not visible in the picture.

Happy 4th

Machining the rear hub

Laced / trued with stainless spokes on Akront/Morads..

Getting close - '52 Bonneville Racing Bike

Mock-ups are always fun..

Android Mags are Back!!

Just got these little guys back from "Doug Wood". He rebuild two original Lucas mags and one dynamo for my pre-unit Triumph projects. I'm very impressed with his professionalism. Thanks Doug,

The angry one on the left is my high performance lsr bike magneto..