THE FASTEST LOOSER

So this weekend was the last race of the seson for the DTRA . 

It was also the anniversary of Mr an Mrs Oily gettin hitched. 

So we celibrated by going racing. Photo by James Boddy

Photo James Boddy "Eat dust Trappy"

Practice on Sat was wet but a good crack . So before I hurt myself me an me bird retired to the hotel to watch a spot of Columbo ( featuring Jony Cash) followed by you've been framed, then a few pints in the bar. 

Sun was race day and for the first two races I did real shite. I felt like the front end was gunna levee me in the mud so meny times . So for race 3 I put some air in the front ( it was very low) and removed the thingy that quietend my exhaust an "hay presto " I did a lot better. 

The I made it through to the "b" final me and 4 others . 

I got the best start ever . Holeshot into turn 1 and every thing just clicked into place. Lap after lap I felt right comfortable, but a little scared that I may fuck it up. 

But I finished 1st . WAHOO first time I've won a race ( apart from my first DIRTQUAKE. ) 

I crossed the flag buzzin , round the next corner , big wheely then my sprocket tore off of the hub. 

What timing? 1st place and fucked bike. 

Photo Chocolate Pete

As you can see Brad the impaler beat me by 7 points FUCKER. 

Never mind there's always next year. 

Photo Mrs oily

Photo Mrs Oily

Nearly legal?

The DUKE is MOTed so I blasted to work on it today. Every time I ride it it takes me back to when I was coaxing it around the dirt track . Thank Crumb it handles better on the road . It's so light and flicky it's bloody brilliant to ride. 

It a dirty job but someone's gotta do it. ( I do care a lot)

I went to the Euro Jumble last weekend. I didn't think it was that great but I did buy this great TorCutter fairing. 

I'm not sure if I will be using it on the Duke as it's a bit big. But it is fuckin ace and only cost 35 earth pounds. 

But when I do fit it on something I'll be laying down a rubber road to freedom ...

I'm MOT ing the duke at the mo.

I'm gunna do the Distinguished Gentalmans Ride on it.  

Saw this fuckin ace motor at a village fair today 8inch piston an a right clever "hit an miss" inlet valve that only opened when the revs dropped real low just to keep it ticking over. 

Oh and there was ferret racing and terrier racing. That's a fuckin recipy for disaster if ever I heard of  one.

"It's sexist." " What's wrong with being Sexy?"

Sorry I forgot to add this months cheeky lady . 

So here is Spinal Tap. 

Phil's shagged Duke pt3

Draw , cut, hammer , grind , weld . 

Getting there

Phil's shagged Duke PT 2

I've been beatin the crap out of that tank for a couple of hours an finally I think I got something I can work with.

I cut the big wings off of the side as I didn't like them and I needed to get into the tank with my implements of perswation . 

I got most of the dent out , a bit of filler should sort the rest. 

I'm gunna replace the wings with some concave panels as I think it may look rather nifty.

916 fix

Started working on my friends crashed Ducati this week . 1st thing I did was drill and fix some handlebar clamps so that I could put some different bars on it.

Next thing is to do something with the batterd fuel tank. 

Flattrack build pt1

I was rebuilding the head on my copper Triumph the other week when the bloke who was measuring my valve guides said " what are you using it for" 

"It's just a show bike." Was my reply. Instantly it thought 'I am such a cock' not only is that a wanky answer but it's not even the truth. What I should have said was

" I just push it around my shed and occasionally swear at it when I rip my overalls on a clutch lever."

So I'm gunna shelve the copper Trumpet for a while and build a new flattracker to race next seson. 

I'm gunna build a frame from scratch and use modern forks and shocks. 

So yesterday I measured all the dims of my YZF tracker and put them on a sheet of ply . Then I measured and scaled the dims of a Woods Norton and a Trackmaster BSA. Tacken from drawings by Mick Ofield. ( look him up his drawrings are very cool)

As you can see ( or probely not) they are very similar.

NERD ALLERT

YZF trail 80mm

Norton   80mm

BSA.      70mm

YZF rake. 22.5 deg

Norton.    26deg

BSA.       26deg

There is only 25 difference in all wheelbases. 

 And seat heights are within 20mm

My plan is to build something looking like this Woods Norton below . 

Triumph triple

Saw this very cool triple today. Bloke has owned it years but in this Guise only been in the road 5 days

Blacksmith

Had a potter around a Blacksmithing festival last weekend. Bloody great it was. 

You know when your rushing to get a job done and your brain is getting all hectic and mixed up. 

Well I discovered that if you watch somebody else in that position and you are just standing, taking it all in , with a pint of cider in your hand. That is very relaxing.