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Next Year’s Engine Arrives

Today my nice shiny new CBR1000 RR engine turned up from Malc at Yorkshire engines. Very new looking it is too. It looks like an American spec engine as it seems to be fitted with the standard American emissions control … Continue reading

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Preparation for the Birkett

I spent much of the day today doing preparation for the Birkett relay race in two weeks time, we have a set of team orders that requires such things as external battery hookups for start\boost batteries and general things like … Continue reading

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Progress Swinging Sump for Next Year

Today I popped over to see Nova Engineering. And had a good chat with Graeme about the CBR 1000 RR swinging sump system that I’ll be using next year. A couple of useful pieces of information emerged. The first is … Continue reading

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A Fruitful Development Partnership

I’ve just a very fruitful visit to my local engineering company Nova Race Gearboxes. I found them while looking for a billet sump system for the CRB1000RR The owner is such a racing enthusiast so we spent a long time … Continue reading

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The last Day of Term

Today I went the the RGB meeting at Snetterron. I wasn’t racing as I’d decided to skip it to save the engine for The Birkett in three weeks time. I love watching clubman racing as its so entertaining due to … Continue reading

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New Plans For Next Season

The 2007 regs draft regs have now been publish on the RGB community website www.bikecars.co.uk. One key change in the regs for next year has been to Class B, which is now being defined as allowing Mid Engined cars and … Continue reading

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Site Update and Move to Blogger

The more observant of you may well have noticed that my site has not had an update in a very long time, this has been due to a number of reasons, but primarily it has been due to the fact … Continue reading

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Resolving the oil feed pipe problem

I’ve had a very busy week with some long days so I haven’t had either the time or inclination to do much to the car. But the many hours I spent hacking up and down the motorways have given me … Continue reading

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