SILVERSTONE WEEKEND.
This bike crashed out right in front of us at Stowe corner , next lap . Bravo !
Monday, 13 June 2011
MOTO GP 2 , WET
ZAETA , it's a thing of beauty !
Seen at the Silverstone GP shorttrack meeting , over from Italy with Marco (racing the works bike ).
We had big crowds for this one !
Silverstone Flattrack meet , we had a 5 deep crowd for the Semis and Final !
Friday, 10 June 2011
SILVERSTONE FLATTRACK & GP - THIS WEEKEND !
Yup , just go , it'll be good !
We'll have loadsa pics of it for ya by Monday , so come right back y'all .
Details at Shorttrack uk . com
Oh yea n there'll be Moto GP too - whatever that is !
Cross ya fingers for some sun .
See the Track on Anthony's excelent blog DBA .
We'll have loadsa pics of it for ya by Monday , so come right back y'all .
Details at Shorttrack uk . com
Oh yea n there'll be Moto GP too - whatever that is !
Cross ya fingers for some sun .
See the Track on Anthony's excelent blog DBA .
Thursday, 2 June 2011
UPDATE and PICS !
Collar bone behaving , muscles still torn and hurtin tho.....
Should be able to do practice and a couple of qualifying laps at Silverstone......
Battatsini's show went well at the weekend , so here's the link to the pics -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redmaxspeedshop/
pics of bikes and pin up girls (but not the burlesque show which was very risque !)
Should be able to do practice and a couple of qualifying laps at Silverstone......
Battatsini's show went well at the weekend , so here's the link to the pics -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redmaxspeedshop/
pics of bikes and pin up girls (but not the burlesque show which was very risque !)
Oh bollocks i'm putting a video up of the boobies rotating anyway ! (below)
Busy building Adam's bobber in the workshop and making our Fonsie bike from a pre-unit Tribsa we had kicking around !
Rach is almost fully recovered from her broken back now , with just six months of phisio and hydrotherapy to look forwards to !(she's back riding bikes and at work now !) and posing as a pin up girl in this pic !
We're stacked out at the workshop and need some more space , gotta move my Mercury out - but can't find a garage long enough to keep it in ! maybe i should sell her ?
Offers on the back of a £50 pound note :-)
Busy building Adam's bobber in the workshop and making our Fonsie bike from a pre-unit Tribsa we had kicking around !
Rach is almost fully recovered from her broken back now , with just six months of phisio and hydrotherapy to look forwards to !(she's back riding bikes and at work now !) and posing as a pin up girl in this pic !
We're stacked out at the workshop and need some more space , gotta move my Mercury out - but can't find a garage long enough to keep it in ! maybe i should sell her ?
Offers on the back of a £50 pound note :-)
Sunday, 8 May 2011
DSCF2250 OXFORD THUNDERBIKES !
Battle hard for the first corner ! Dave and Wilky had good Thunder bike races , Gary doing well in Shorttrack . Anthony and Stevie coles had great races too Ant second in final behind the ever good Jacob on his trusty Wood/HD .
DSCF2262 Skeleton on the track !
Dave Aldana showed he was a true racer riding hard ans crashing hard , wrecking Boasties newly finished suzuki framer .
Pete was pretty beaten up caught against the barrier in Tysons first corner wide overrun taking 4 other riders wide into Pete and the fence .
Dave just bounced up again living up to his "rubber ball" nickname from the 70's .
DSCF2234 SIDEBURN NIGHT , OXFORD.
Dave Aldana , trying out the REDMAX Norton for size ! Dave passed on some tuning tips as he was a Works Norton rider in the 70's .
This was a great night that came together with some great teamwork from the SIDEBURN and CO-BUILT guys .
Thanks boyz .
More pics here - http:/www.flickr.com/photos/redmaxspeedshop/
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
TONIGHT,OXFORD - TOMOROW NIGHT OXFORD! BE THERE.
TONITE - KIDLINGTON SOCIAL CLUB , OXFORD , OX5 1AT , YARNTON ROAD .
SIDEBURN NIGHT , WITH DAVE ALDANA N JULIAN RYDER.
FRIDAY NIGHT , OXFORD SPEEDWAY , SANDY LANE , OX4 6LJ
FLATTRACK RACING , WITH DAVE ALDANA RACING !
OH YES !, GET DOWN THERE , BE PART OF THE VIBE .
INFO FROM SIDEBLOG , SHORTTRACK UK .COM , DBA BLOG .
SIDEBURN NIGHT , WITH DAVE ALDANA N JULIAN RYDER.
FRIDAY NIGHT , OXFORD SPEEDWAY , SANDY LANE , OX4 6LJ
FLATTRACK RACING , WITH DAVE ALDANA RACING !
OH YES !, GET DOWN THERE , BE PART OF THE VIBE .
INFO FROM SIDEBLOG , SHORTTRACK UK .COM , DBA BLOG .
Friday, 1 April 2011
NORTON - ALDANA - OXFORD-SIDEBURN NIGHT
SIDEBURN NIGHT , THEN OXFORD SHORTTRACK RACE - BOTH WITH DAVE ALDANA !
OH MAN GOTTA BE THERE !
THURS 5 & FRI 6TH MAY , see info on RED poster , Dave will be hosting the Sideburn night (THURS), then racing the following night (FRI) with us Flattrackin' fools !
So in deference to the main man - i gotta be on a Norton - Que the "REVEREND" my latest project - a 850 Commando motor plucked from my caff racer (the Reverend 1) bored to 920 , fitted with a race cam , rebuilt for torque and stuffed into a Knight shorttrack chassias meant to hold a puny Bultaco stink wheel motor .
Of course i hear you say - "that'll never work " , so i include a scan of my aerospace quality calculations for your perusal .
And of course it won't fit in with a gearbox , but the plan was to run a speedway cross shaft instead as they take up 1/4 the space of a gearbag (downside being no gears or neutral !) and being a shorttrack bike i only need to run in one gear on the short speedway tracks we're mainly using !
So i figured it'd be easy and cheap to do - WRONG - on both counts , but i kept my head down with my nose to the grindstone ..... and here he is ..... Ladies n Jellyspoons , i give you ......
The REVEREND 11 .
I was working in the lab late last night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight , the monster from my slab began to rise and suddenly to my suprise ..... it began to run - only after it'd killed my roller starter tho and of course i got a video of the first run , will load that later .
Anyway runs strong , no leaks (yet) and the clutch works . Nice .
All that won't mean a thing if i can't get the gearing in the ballpark tho ,as no gearbag means 1to1 ratio which is akin to top gear normally . So i've got 4 engine sprockets to play with and a selection of final drive sprockets coming from Talon engineering (please arrive soon..) because it's alright running one gear - if it's the right one .
Anyway the build has taken plenty of sweat n tears and may not even be suitable , but it's short n light (which is it's raison d'etre ) and if you want a shorttracker but it HAS to be a Brit - you gotta build one for yourself .
Yikes .
Friday, 11 March 2011
AJS STREETRACKER - PAINT DESIGN COMPETITION !
Had this wierd graphiti one in too !
white bike is Streeettracker mock up , red bike is standard bike from AJS .......
Had two good designs in from Chris hough above , he says - 
The Classic is a modern take on an old-school AJS with a slug of JPS bling in the gold pinstriping. 'The Axe' is inspired by a telecaster... candy-apple red and a matt maple with a black pinstripe echoed on the scratchplate, I mean number board. Nice one Chris !
The Classic is a modern take on an old-school AJS with a slug of JPS bling in the gold pinstriping. 'The Axe' is inspired by a telecaster... candy-apple red and a matt maple with a black pinstripe echoed on the scratchplate, I mean number board. Nice one Chris ! Keep em coming !
white bike is Streeettracker mock up , red bike is standard bike from AJS .......
Ok , i love British bikes - always have .
But they've all but gone now .
Triumph are back and Norton are looking good , but when you've got AJS on your doorstep and they're still going (albeit bring Chinese bikes in and re-badging em) - i just think it'd be nice to help out a bit ! Maybe get involved even .
So to this end i thought i'd stick my hand in my pocket and buy the most likely candidate they do and see if we can't make something out of it .
I'm thinking a Streettracker and a cafe racer - cos that's what we do .
Nick brown at AJS is up for it and after several conversations he came up with a bike at trade for me and is getting excited about the prospect of something different for the AJS name .
So we got this strange 125 four-stroke twin (325 also available) back at REDMAX HQ and did a strip down and try-out . This is only day one for the Streettracker and i think it has possibilities , (it's just a mock up at mo) bear in mind we don't want to go too far and price it out of existence so alot of stuff has to stay from the std bike .
Hence the exhaust which seems to work with the seat unit , but is a bit Marmite (love it or hate it !) and the clocks are large and a bit overpowering and i wanted spoked wheels - but we're on a budget here - at least the std tyres are a bit streetracker-ish .
So the red bike is how we got her , and the white bike is our Streetracker mock up - using redmaxspeedshop.com parts - Star racer tank , T140 shorty seat , basketweave pad , oval alloy numberboards , bates lamp and Flanders style bars .
Ok it's just a mock up - but with that box section swing arm , posy shocks , wavy discs and funky exhaust as standard , coupled with our 70's Flattracker makeover and a paint job , i think it'll look pretty cool .
Mind you it's all down to the paint job in the end - which is where you all come in !
This is really an appeal to all you budding photoshop designers out there to have a go at some paint jobs/ designs / graphics and send em in to me at REDMAX HQ , we'll show the designs as we get 'em . You could even name the bike too !
USE THE TOP TWO WHITE IMAGES FOR YOUR DESIGNS PLEASE .
I'm thinking there should be a prize here too , so how about a years SIDEBURN Mag subscription for the best two ?
Catagories would be -
A . coolest paint job (as far out as you like , man!)
B . Most useable in the real world paint job (captain sensible , AJS logos etc )
You can design around the basic bike or add paint to the white bodywork , and consider we are looking at a cafe racers next !
You can do - pencil / pen / cad-cam / photoshop / bodypaint / charcoal / cave painting - anything !!!!!! just scan it and send it in as a jpeg to me at -
snatzomobile (at) talktalk (dot) net (you know how it works , don't want spam)
Any comments / helpfull advice gladly recieved , we are talking about a famous name here (AJS) and who knows where this could lead for them .
More pics here as we do the bike start to finish !
Cheers you guys .
Steve .
REDMAX .
Monday, 7 March 2011
BOTTPOWER - cool Buells !
We have supplied Ramon Bellosta with a load of parts recently for his Buell project Tracker , and if his last project is anything to go by it's gonna be bloody fantastic !
They have some great roads and Tracks in Spain so i guess he'll have plenty of oppertunity to sort them in the sun !
Nice one Ramone ......
stole this lot from Visordown who nicked it from http://bottpower.com/eng/ anyway !
Tasty flattrack concept from Bottpower
Moto2 builders design flattrack concept based around a Buell donor
Posted: 7 March 2011 by Visordown News
Creators of the dynamically attractive M210 Moto2 machine Bottpower have put their minds to the dirt oval and designed a trick flattrack concept.
The BOTT XR-1 concept design is based around a Buell powerplant, with the American bike also acting as a donor for the wheels, suspension, brakes and swingarm - the chassis will work around a central spine design.
The basis for building the bike is to work within the elements of flattrack aesthetics, based on the Harley XR750 racers that drift around the flattrack ovals in the American series. Bottpower are building the BOTT XR-1 on the ideas from Ramón Bellosta, who asked the team to build the chassis.
Rather than opting for a Harley XR1200, a bike that has been identified as the closest on the market, the BOTT XR-1's specifications will trounce the H-D bike. Where as the Harley weighs 250kgs and has 85bhp, the BOTT XR-1 will weigh 170kgs and pump out more than 100bhp and with the addition of much more aggressive geometries making it a more agile bike.
Follow the project and images courtesy of Bottpower
All Images
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/tasty-flattrack-concept-from-bottpower/17439.html#ixzz1FwXYFiY3
Moto2 builders design flattrack concept based around a Buell donor
Posted: 7 March 2011 by Visordown News
Creators of the dynamically attractive M210 Moto2 machine Bottpower have put their minds to the dirt oval and designed a trick flattrack concept.
The BOTT XR-1 concept design is based around a Buell powerplant, with the American bike also acting as a donor for the wheels, suspension, brakes and swingarm - the chassis will work around a central spine design.
The basis for building the bike is to work within the elements of flattrack aesthetics, based on the Harley XR750 racers that drift around the flattrack ovals in the American series. Bottpower are building the BOTT XR-1 on the ideas from Ramón Bellosta, who asked the team to build the chassis.
Rather than opting for a Harley XR1200, a bike that has been identified as the closest on the market, the BOTT XR-1's specifications will trounce the H-D bike. Where as the Harley weighs 250kgs and has 85bhp, the BOTT XR-1 will weigh 170kgs and pump out more than 100bhp and with the addition of much more aggressive geometries making it a more agile bike.
Follow the project and images courtesy of Bottpower
All Images
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/tasty-flattrack-concept-from-bottpower/17439.html#ixzz1FwXYFiY3
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