RD250

Cadwell was going quite well till race three where I decided to use a tyre wall to retard my progress off the exit of the hair pin... I did get to watch the rest of the race from the side lines and collect my thoughts which were rattling around the inside of my now distroyed Shoei NXR helmet. Not long later I was in the back of one van heading back to the pits then another home to fix the bike and my pride. What broke? Aside from collecting a lot of Cadwell parks grass and soil in my fairing, things were not looking too bad considering. My screen had exploded which was a given and the throttle cables were split open and bent round although not severed. The rear fairing stay had punched through the fairing in a neat round circle which meant the fairing got out of the way whilst the bike slid which saved the paint and only needed a simple repair. The only other thing to really touch down was the end can which was now quite...

 Post Mallory park, I had a problem: The bike hadn't broken and I didn't know what to do with myself... ...Time to sort out some of those little niggles.  One of those little niggles was the rear fairing stays. Apart from being a ticking time bomb of fragility, they also get right in the way of my knees. As a result the fairing was starting to suffer and I was constantly conscious that I might knock one off, ending my racing weekend. I decided to copy a bracket idea I had seen on another bike using some 12mm steel bar and 20mm box section. Ideally I have used tube but nobody local to me stock any and I wasn't going to wait for a delivery. The bar was cut to length, drilled on either end and tapped for an M6 bolt. I made sure to drill as deep as the bit would allow in order to reduce weight as best I could. This bracket was going to be a lot heavier than what I was replacing. The bar was test fitted and markings were taken for where the box section arms ...

Being a working machine was one thing but there was no arguing that she was the ugly duckling on the Snetterton 16 paddock. It was time for some new clothes. Tank I decided to treat myself to a TZ style race tank from  scooternbikedeals  who was selling at a good price and had 2050 feedback. Unfortunately he was having difficulty with his supplier right up to the point that the 90 days of eBay support ran out and he suddenly forgot how to reply to emails. eBay did its usual shrug and walk away thing and I lost a load of money.  Fuck you  scooternbikedeals . Fairings From Shop to Paint Shop On a brighter note; I had got my mits on some fairings. We had some faf trying various places to see who would do us a deal on a large order of fairings. This turned into finding someone who hadn't sold their entire stock at the Newark bike show! I very nearly bought a Maxton fairing from Bardney racing but the shop owner had wondered off leaving his locked out ...