Strong Wife!
My wife is still smiling even when hold up a 1600 pound spring and a BMW shock.
The owner of the shock only rides the BMW it goes on with his wife and all their gear when they are touring. Normally you only carry a passenger and gear some of the time so I have to spring for the lighter load because the ride would be too harsh when you did not have a friend along. In this case we can spring for the big load because the rest of the time he rides his other BMW.
The 1600 pounds refers to the springs rate. It takes 1600 lbs to compress this spring one inch.
The Kenny 8 Hour Race
Team: ICEMAN RACING
Race: #12, 85/150 Class (RM85)
Team manager: Eric Anderson, Kenny’s dad
Racers: Alan Cunningham, Ed Sorbo, John Erickson, Amanda Erickson, Derek Keyes, Daniel Diaz
Pit & Grid Position #6!
A day with Tomasz
Check out the video Tomasz made of us working on his all day. It’s speeded up like a old school car chase.
More Mystery School Forks
It’s like lots of people ride Rich’s bikes all day long, learning and having fun! No more leaky seals Rich, time to make Donuts.
Ninja Bat Box, Penske
What do you do when you don’t like the standard location of your Penske reservoir? If you’r Bill you have me move it under the battery box.
If I tell you, I have to kill you.
The next set of forks for Deus Ex Machina are about to start going back together. These are the outer tubes, and feet in black and part of the caps in red.
Mike Woolaway builds the bikes for Deus Ex, he is an artist, hence the cool colors. I like working with Mike because he tells me what kind of bike it will be, how much it weights, how much power it will have and a little about the rider. Then he lets me do my thing, he’s never in a rush. I know a little about what this bike will be but I can’t tell you…other than to say it will be worth the wait.
NASA sent a rover to Mars. You may have heard about it. The wheels on that rover, Curiosity, were anodized by the same company that did this work. Funny thing is they don’t do just any job. If you want some work done by them you can ask me and if you have what it takes I may pass your name to them. 😉
MotoYard goes racing!
MotoYard.com has added racing. Moto West GP is holding it’s first race at Willow Springs this weekend. Lindemann Engineering is sponsoring and offering free suspension advice to all racers.
ButtonWillow this weekend.
I’ll be at Buttonwillow this weekend. Friday is an open test day, Sat & Sun are round one with the AFM. I’ll be working with Kenny Anderson and Mark Bregar. I have room for more clients. I may even race. I hear the AFM has a class for my ‘88 Hurricane.
No Adjusters? No Problem.
The Triumph Tiger has a non-adjustable cartridge fork. It’s under sprung and the damping curve is wrong. The correct spring rate was easy. The correct high speed damping was not too hard to work out. But what to do about the low speed damping took a few tries.
If your bike has a non-adjustable fork, you too can have LE stickers because this fix will work on your forks just as well.
BMW Front Shocks
Photo of a front BMW shock that can be rebuilt. It’s a close up of the seam where the cap presses into the shock body. Caps that are folded over or welded here can’t be rebuilt.