Too Many 24 Hour Races?
This is my list of 24 hour races:
Team Hawaii Race Results
1986 2nd Lightweight Superbike, WERA 24 hours of Willow, CB400T w/450 engine & VF500 front end, one set of tires.
1987 2nd Mediumweight Superbike, WERA 24 hours of Willow, the only 600 Ninja to ever finish the Willow 24 and we did it with stock 16 inch wheels, sold the bike before it made it home.
1988 3rd Mediumweight Superbike, WERA 24 hours of Willow, CBR600F1, also ran Team Hawaii Too on a VF500.
1989 3rd Mediumweight Production, WERA 24 hours of Willow, CBR600F1, also ran THT on a F1.
1990 1st Mediumweight Production & 3rd Overall, WERA 24 hours of Willow, 2005 miles is a class milage world record, ran the first rear tire for 7 hours, also ran THT on a F-1 they took 5th in class ans 12th Overall.
1991 DNF WERA 24 hours of Willow, FZR600 w/Hawk arm.
1991 DNF WERA 24 hours of Nelson, FRZ600 w/Hawk arm, 2 engines and 3 crashes, 6 flat tires on the transporter.
1992 4th Mediumweight Superbike, WERA 24 hours of Willow, destroyed a GSXR750 Superbike in night practice and raced friends CBR600F1 that happened to be at the track.
Other Teams
1999 2nd Mediumweight Supersport, WERA 24 hours of Willow, Team GP Tech, CBR600F4
2000 Hard Luck Award, WERA 24 hours of Willow, Team goshift.com, R-6, crashed hard in T-4 and T-8, limped it across the finish line and got $1000 award.
2006 25 Hour dirt bike race in Washington, Team Enduro, don’t know how we did because I quit before it was over when I got back to the pits after a loop and everyone had gone to bed.
2011 1st 100 Mod, M!GP 24 Hours of Willow Kart Track, 2nd Overall, eXhausted Racers, XR100.
Fischer’s first race!
Congratulations to Bill Wickersham, Fischer Motorcycles and the California State Championship!
Bill Wickersham raced a Frischer MRX 650 V-Twin today at Willow Springs Raceway. It was a banner day for all involved as this was the first ever race of a Fischer MRX anywhere. Bill entered the California State Championship Fourmula-40 Lightweight class run in conjunction with this months regularly scheduled WSMC races. Bill’s 5th place finish today combined with his results from the first two rounds of the CSC clinched the class championship.
The Fischer MRX is an American made Sportbike.
The California State Championship runs in conjunction with one each AFM, WERA and WSMC race in California to crown class and an overall State Championships‘.
EDventure Racing transformed the MRX from a street bike into a race bike.
This project is just getting started. Stay tuned for more results.
Bill’s Great Fischer Project is sponsored by:
EDventure Racing
Lindemann Engineering
Catalyst Racing Composites
MC Pro
Factory Pro
M-4 Exhausts
Results
1 rider showed up so late he could not ride, but he did crew.
1 rider crashed 1 time.
1 rider crashed 6 times.
One rider got sick and could not do his last stint.
We got 3 wrong front brake levers.
The intake manifold broke.
The clutch cable came loose.
We ran out of gas once.
We got a 5 lap penalty for speeding in the pits.
We started the race with the same tire that did the 24 hour last year + a bunch of sprint races and other riding in the year since.
The outside of the exhaust valve spring retainer wore away so that the larger spring was just flopping around leaving only the inner spring to hold the exhaust valve up.
The exhaust valve touched the piston a few times.
We won our class and finished 2nd overall.
In order to finish first, first you must finish.
Happy Rider
Brian sent us his ’07 Ninja 250 forks after his friend rode it and told him the front end was so bad it was dangerous. We installed new stronger spring, thicker oil c
Got the new forks on the bike this evening after work. Wow. People kept telling me that it would be like a whole different bike but I wasn’t really able to conceptualize exactly how the bike would perform.
I rode for about an hour after I got everything put back to gather to shake everything out and was nothing short of amazed. I realize now that I had been using my biceps to soak up the energy that the forks and springs should have
been handling.
Knowing how the bike feels now as compared to how I had been riding around I agree with my friend’s assessment that it was downright dangerous.
Thanks for the hard work and if I meet any one else with the same issues I’ll send them your way.
Regards,
Brian
“eXhausted Racers”
The “eXhausted Racers” won the M1GP 24 Hour XR 100 Class last year. This year they have a faster bike and have added me to their rider list. Lindemann Engineering has finished with the shock and has started on the forks.
We race next weekend on the Willow Kart Track. It will be my 12th 24 Hour race. Come out and throw water on me!
Bruce wins 6!
Earlier this year I won a race thus giving me race wins in 4 connective decades. My friend Bruce Lind just made 6:
“I crossed the line ahead of Don Roberts in the 250GP class at Miller Motorsports park this past Sunday. That gives me a race win in six decades. 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 11’s.
Really looking forward to the full 23 turn 4.4 mile course at Miller on October 1/2. This will complete my 48th season “on the pavement”!”
Go Bruce! Go!
Bikes 73 & 74
Thanks to Dennis who loned me his 250 Ninja to race at Streets last month where I took 2nd. That made the number of bikes I’ve raced 73. Bike 74 is thanks too Niccole who loned me her 250 Ninja to race at Willow this month where I took 3rd.
Waiting For Tires
Today, I rode the Fischer MRX at Willow Springs in a MotoYard track day. I used it as my Lead/Follow bike with an EDventure Racing client. I rode 3 times for 7 laps each with a best lap of 1.42.82, the weather was hot and windy. Standard Willow weather. I need to drop 10 seconds for a good race time. Tires will help, I had a 2 year old take off slick on the front and a wasted take off DOT on the rear. They are what I had sitting around the shop… Tomorrow I’ll mount good tires.
Problems include: The bike is sprung for the owner who weights a lot more then me, I ran a full tank. Mid range jetting was rich, fixed tonight. Tach needle was jumping around because of a poor ground, fixed tonight. I had the forks all the way down in the claps for more trail but the bike needed more weight on the front so I set the fork height to stock.
Cool stuff: People like to look at this bike. It does not have a steering damper but does not wobble. All the changes I made did what I expected them to do. No new scratches. The first scratch happened at my shop. I got all the small stuff like shift lever height and throttle play adjusted just so.
Today I also re-valved a shock and re-build another. As well as doing a few small jobs on the Ninja 250 I’m racing on Sunday.
It was a good day.
Fischer MRX
The Fischer MRX is ready for testing at Willow Springs on Friday and racing this weekend. LE fork and shock springs and valving. EDventure Racing everything else.
Enought Time?
Racing this weekend.
Loading, driving & setting up tomorrow.
Bikes are not ready yet.
Will I make it?!