Hi!

First of all I want to express my admiration for the energy that you all show with your renovations! I feel that I will compete with a few other guys with the slowest TT build on the planet... But it will be done and I have started to collect parts. Therefor I have started this thread were I occassionally will report about whatever developments there are.

But before I start with the TT (and it WILL take time to find the parts) I have to finish the F1 and the Harris Rotax 250 racer. So will bore you with some two-stroke pictures this winter if that is ok?

/Björn

Hi Bjorn, please keep us posted on the Harris and the F1. I can safely say most guys on the Forum love and have all kinds of bikes. Lou

Great! I will spice with some more pictures from the basement. Of Ducatis!

/Björn

Last weekend we arranged ”Årsracet”, which could be said being Race of the Year. ThIs specific race weekend there are four disciplines involved, roadracing, mx, speedway and trial. The theme this year was 500cc. Heavily inspired by the TT symposium setup I invited 500 racers from the seventies and eighties, actually the bikes and racers we (who are 55, +/- some years) remember from being spectators way back then. It was really a huge success. 17 bikes turned up: two Husqvarnas from the beginning of the 70:s, nine Suzuki RG/RGB from 1976 to 1983. Two Yamaha TZ500 and one TZ750, two Kawasaki H1R and one Sparton. I upload som photos of the exhibition, but you can also read more on this blog: http://kawapilot.blogspot.com/ by Per Olofsson who renovated one of the two H1R:s.

/Björn

Some more pics.

Looks like a very cool event!!!

Out of curiosity....what is the powerplant in those Husky road racers???

Thanx,
Clay

Here's a link to one of the bikes on show - http://kawapilot.blogspot.com/
Even though it is a Kawasaki it is still an impressive story of the rescue and restoration of historically significant (in Sweden) race bike.

All Husky engines at the time where single cylinder aircooled twostrokes, different displacements. So to create the 500 twin they made a special crankcase and combined two 250:s. This was done by the R&D department at the factory, and these engines were not sold. Besides the officially backed venture by Bo Granath, a few engines were supplied to other top national Swedish riders. Mind you, Bo came fifth totally in the 500 class in the WC in 1972 with this bike, as a privateer. There was also a 750 engine produced, and this is the one at the event. Bo still has both bikes. You can read more about this bike on Bo:s website, www.bogranath.com. Click on ”Racing history”, scroll down and click on the magazine covers. Alan Cathcart made a feature story of the Husky a few years ago that has made it to many magazines around the globe.

I learned a lot about 500:s and RG:s through this event...

/Björn

Waiting for something else to start or complete, I found and fitted a Tecnomagnesio 5,5 inch rear wheel for right hand chain including a small brake caliper on the ESW 250 that I should have returned to the owner a year ago. Now its set to be returned in October. The rear wheel including brake from a period CBR600 was so heavy, I could hardly carry it...

/Björn

PS Without making fun of anyones president, maybe I should have named this thread: Look at what happend in Sweden yesterday! In Sweden!! DS

A dig in the basement:
Maybe a couple of pictures of bevels, inspired by Bouchers cam timing efforts...

When I started racing it was club racing at the local track. We had our club races twice a year, and there was this really evil looking GTS. First time I saw it I did not understand what it was, and it was really... old... But it was fast and ridden by an older guy who had done thousands (well hundreds at least) of laps on the track, and he really knew his way around. Since I was the only other Ducati rider he showed me his lines, and they still stick!

The Harris framed bike was owned and raced by a Norwegian, but I cant remember his name. But I do remember that he was a motorcycle policeman and took part in a roadracing world championship for policemen somewhere and did great.

The very nice looking 900SS was built, raced and owned by Peder Spile from Denmark. This is how it looked when we raced in Battle of the Twins in the end of the eighties. If you recognize the name, I have earlier shown a photo of the TT1 that he built and was raced by his son Mike. I think that bike is in the US now.

Last the Bakker framed bevel is also from Denmark, built by Ulf Hansen. He desperately tried to keep up with the Pantah-powered lighter bikes with this very nice chassi, but when the 888:s came in force it was not worth it anymore. I think he still has it though, and that he raced it at the club races in Assen a couple of times.

/Björn