Forks Ready
Lance, your forks are ready.
World’s Oldest Road Racing Class Champion, Tony Serra
Lindemann Engineering and EDventure Racing, proud sponsors of Tony Serra are pleased to announce that Tony Serra is the World’s Oldest Road Racing Class Champion.
By winning the 2013 Moto West Grand Prix, Lindemann Engineering 250 Cup Class at the age of 74, Serra as set a high standard indeed. Earning this championship required Serra to race at three different tracks over eight race weekends. He did this with panache, finishing on the podium in seven races, taking the title by a dominate 51 points and by setting numerous personal best lap times along the way.
About Tony: He’s older than you and he says your excuse for not racing is invalid.
About EDventure Racing: It’s Ed Sorbo’s racing venture.
About Lindemann Engineering: Tony Serra is our client, ‘nuff said.
About Moto West Grand Prix: Tony Serra’s favorite motorcycle race organization.
Photo: Tony Serra & Ed Sorbo with their race bikes after MWGP race. Photo by Eric Anderson.
x3
I have three 250 Ninjas ready for this weekends races with Moto West GP.
Jim Lindemann
Just a great photo of Jim at Laguna with a Penske shock and a Ti spring.
Making Progress
Reservoir Added
How about a Penske remote reservoir on your Ninja shock!
Iceman Ninja, Going back together.
Iceman Ninja Missing Frame
How springs work.
Springs:
A spring is just a length of metal wire bent into a coil. A straight wire held vertically will not flex, held horizontally it will flex easily.
Rate is the measurement of a springs strength. A spring with a rate of 100 lbs/inch will compress one inch when you place 100 pounds on it. With 200 lbs it will compress 2 inches and so on. You can use any scale you want. Inch pounds, Kilograms per millimeter, Newton-meters, it’s all the same.
Springs are strong or weak. They are made of metal and therefore do not get harder or softer with a rate change. Correct nomenclature leads to a better understanding of how things work.
Springs hold up the weight of the bike and rider in the correct part of the travel. In the correct part of the suspensions travel!
Pre-load is the energy stored in a spring by mechanically compressing it. A set of .95 kg/mm fork springs that have 20 mm of pre-load on them have 38 kg (83 lbs) of energy stored in them before adding the weight of the bike.
Pre-load does not change the strength of a spring. Just like flexing your muscles does not change how strong you are. It just stores energy (work) in the spring. Notice that it’s harder to control movement when your muscles are flexed than when they are relaxed.
Iceman Washing
The Iceman Ninja was dirty, so I washed it. After I took it apart.