Not the day i had planned

Up at 6.30 this morning for interval training with my younger (But not smaller) brother Joe.

Radcliffe on Trent village has a Cliff face with appx 50 staggered steps from bottom to top.

The idea is to Sprint up at 100% and walk back down. My record was 10 a few years ago when i was in Superstock and i'm progressing by 1 a week atm, 7 this morning and very close to vomiting!

Joe my Bro is a big lad, great footballer and hes also in training for his first amateur boxing fight in 5 weeks time, hes training like a trooper and doing himself proud, its nice to have somebody to train with regularly.

So today i was hoping to get collect my forks back from K Tech sometime this morning from Jason Evans jnternational man of mystery and part time accountant! 

He'd been kind enough to collect them for me on his travels but then went Awol.

Soon enough i got hold of him and arranged to meet him to collect at 3.30.

I set off on time, Pink floyd on full blast, except pink floyd today was accompanied by the vans own beat, Mother fuck shes knocking her nuts off, i ,managed to nurse her back to work and my buddy Gaz has had her straight in, sounds serious though, sounds little end knock to me but we'll no more tomorrow. An unplanned expense :-/

So I jump in Stans (part time mechanic whom i employ) awesome trusty Civic and shoot over a little late, got the forks, got back for 4.30, Stan built the old bike back up and i built the forks back into the new bike so shes ready to go to RLR in the morning. Had my lad aswell tonight 6 year old Evan so my trusty Mum picked me up from work and then we got the boy from school club. Love my Mum :-)

Sharif at Vale Fabrications has been kind enough to lend me his van tomorrow to RLR cheers buddy.

I have also had the forks, yokes and the front wheel out of the Superbike for the first time today, apparantley the yokes are off an ex British Moto gp procject, they are very nice machined from billet magnesium and light to.

I've taken them out to get my head around how the offset inserts work, i think i can run it either forwards or backwards of centre but not central. I think i could machine a centrally located pivot setup myself so this would give me 3 different settings.

I'll chat to a few more people first to make sure i understand it properly.

Since i've had the Superbike engine top end stripped down and measured up i've been pestering Mark Fisher of G&S racing to come and have a look over with his experienced eye. I rode for Mark in a couple of Superstock rounds last year and he runs a great team with his son and 2 other riders. Check them Out.

Mark came down today and has shared his thoughts and gave me some sound advice on where to go with the new engine. Thanks Mark.

Excited for RLR Tomorrow! Pics to follow from today.