Race chassis

[Michael Moore]

Here are two I've built for AHRMA vintage racing: A sloper 175 Honda twin for 200/250GP and a F750 Laverda twin.

cheers,
Michael

[husaberg]

Welcolm to KB Mr Moore I have often looked at your website and your projects.
Raided a few Pictures too

[Michael Moore]

I thought I'd seen a few photos that looked veglia familiar!

I found quite a few photos in this thread (I turned up in a web search for photos of the Scitsu plate frame) that I've copied off to my PC for my future reference.

No need for formality, my name is Michael (not Mike though) so feel free to use it. "Mr." makes me feel so old . . .

For those who aren't familiar with my website this page

http://www.eurospares.com/other.htm

will get you to the various project pages and the pages with links to somewhere around 6000 images of bikes and parts I've found interesting. I started the site nearly 20 years ago and I've retained the largely text-based format that was needed in the low bandwidth days so people have to guess from the descriptions which photos they are likely to want to look at. As you can imagine, going back and adding thumbnails to all the existing links is quite a chore. And I've got plenty of other stuff waiting to go up -- someday.

cheers,
Michael

[Grumph]

Welcome indeed Michael...All we need now is your friend Mr Bradley to show up and this thread would be like the ESE thread on 2 stroke tuning where some of the world's best contribute.
Don't change your website for me, i'm still on slow internet and it's a pleasure to use without having to wait for pics to show up.

[Michael Moore]

It is good of you to give me an excuse to avoid revising the website.

I doubt John spends much time browsing the web. The physical issues he mentions briefly in his books limits the amount of time he can sit at the PC (with lots of recovery time between sessions needed) and he's trying to use that time to work on Volume 3 (chassis setup). If he can finish that and get it ready to print he'll then see about putting the first two books back into print too. I suspect that won't be happening anytime soon as it sounds like Volume 3 may be the size of the earlier books.

cheers,
Michael

[chrisc]

I've read the first volume about 10 times already and have been trying to get my hands on volume two for years. If anyone has any leads on where I can get that, I'd very much like to hear them!

Good to have you here Michael

[Grumph]

It is good of you to give me an excuse to avoid revising the website.

I doubt John spends much time browsing the web. The physical issues he mentions briefly in his books limits the amount of time he can sit at the PC (with lots of recovery time between sessions needed) and he's trying to use that time to work on Volume 3 (chassis setup). If he can finish that and get it ready to print he'll then see about putting the first two books back into print too. I suspect that won't be happening anytime soon as it sounds like Volume 3 may be the size of the earlier books.

cheers,
Michael

Pass the message on if it's needed that i hear the back orders about equal the first print run by now....There's good money to be made there.

[husaberg]

I've read the first volume about 10 times already and have been trying to get my hands on volume two for years. If anyone has any leads on where I can get that, I'd very much like to hear them!

Good to have you here Michael

I was following the link to the VRM suite looking for the pic posted of the Roffe Emot engine and I seen Roffe might have some, the freight from Sweden might be a killer though, its my birthday soon and I want one as well.

[Michael Moore]

John knows that there is demand for V1 and V2. It has been 7 years since I stopped distributing them in North America and I still get emails from people hoping I've got one sitting on the shelf and I keep John informed about that.

You've got to be diligent in your search. Used copies of Volume 1 pop up on eBay every now and then for reasonable prices, but Volume 2 is very scarce, and the prices are much higher than retail was. I wish I'd kept some copies on hand to help out friends but I didn't anticipate they'd be out of print so long.

cheers,
Michael

[Bert]

John knows that there is demand for V1 and V2. It has been 7 years since I stopped distributing them in North America and I still get emails from people hoping I've got one sitting on the shelf and I keep John informed about that.

You've got to be diligent in your search. Used copies of Volume 1 pop up on eBay every now and then for reasonable prices, but Volume 2 is very scarce, and the prices are much higher than retail was. I wish I'd kept some copies on hand to help out friends but I didn't anticipate they'd be out of print so long.

cheers,
Michael

Well it's great that you have stumbled upon us Michael.
Like others, I've really enjoyed your website and provided information.
I keep a close eye on auctions for volume1&2 to add to the shelf.

Welcome.

[Michael Moore]

You folks may not know it but you are very lucky to have such a strong "DIY" aspect to your racing. In the US our club racing is very much slanted towards production bikes, and a lot of people who are racing can't see any reason why they'd want to spend the money/go to the effort of sourcing or building a chassis for a GP-style bike. They are in it for inexpensive track time, so a $2K SV650 or older 600 sport bike makes them perfectly happy.

I can understand that since modern bikes are so much improved from the 1970s/80s. But we used to have Bimotas and Spondons and other special-framed bikes, along with hordes of RS/TZ125s and RS/TZ250s filling our club grids.

There's a bit more going on with chassis building in AHRMA vintage, but folks like my friend Jeff who I recently advised on building his first frame for a 175 Kawasaki (200GP class) are still not very common.

For me motorcycle racing has always been as much about the motorcycle as the racing, and while there is no possibility of me coming anywhere close to riding a "modern" (last 30 years) bike to its capacity, I've got zero interest in riding some stockish street bike. I've got a good crowd of gearheads on my mc-chassis-design list (some from Aus/NZ) but it is nice to find a spot like this forum that is filled with builders/modifiers. I wish we had bucket racing here, but it looks like the vast majority of club racers nowadays are limited in their workshop skills to bolting on an exhaust or damper.

cheers,
Michael

[Michael Moore]

Speaking of Jeff Henise's F37 Kawasaki (F3 cylinder on F7 lower, another dumb requirement by AHRMA instead of letting him run the F7 top end) here are some photos. Jeff also has a Yamaha YCS1 that so far only has a Seeley-style swing arm, but he is keen to build a similar frame to the Kawasaki for it.

Jeff is an ace weldor and a very good machinist, as well as a PhD chemist. He did all the engine and chassis work (except for the tank which was done by another friend of mine) including new porting/sleeves/exhaust etc and designed all of the engine modifications.

Jeff was going to put some CB350 forks on the F37 and while I wasn't able to convince him to build some leading link forks I did get him to convert them to a DMW-style external damper. Pierre at Works Performance was keen on the project and built the damper and Jeff is very happy with how the front end works.

At the recent AHRMA national at Barber Jeff got a 3rd place on the bike in 200GP, with 2nd and 4th being taken by former 200GP class champions.

cheers,
Michael

[Michael Moore]

Here's Dave Pearce's latest Tigcraft single using a reverse head YZF450. He says that with a stock motor it is several seconds faster than the SV650s it races against.

cheers,
Michael

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