I'm still going to be looking at a 2k bill when i'm done which is so crippling to the budget!
But anyway Dan get over it!
Ok so last week Stan the chap that works/worked for me decided that he wasnt going to carry on working for me. This has left me in an awkward position, yes its one less overhead not worrying about wages but double the workload for me :-0.
I know whats coming up its getting to busy time and the work is going to get out of hand, i've put an advert on a few job websites but no one suitable has came forward as yet. Stan was a Gem in a lot of ways as he was able to work the Mill and lathe aswell as work on bikes, you've never known anyone be able to clean a bike up the way he did.
I've been pleading with B&C express not to sell the exhaust i've ordered specially through them for the 600, with the van becoming priority cash went elsewhere but funds are in place tomorrow and i can get that sent straight to RLR.
I'm not able to do a lot on the superbike atm, we've paint strippered and are now sanding back the swingarm to have a brushed aluminium effect on it rather than the half black and half aluminium look it had after being modified.
The old 600 is still for sale and it needs to move sharpish so i can get the new ZX10'and crack on!
I'm starting to panick about budget now, i still have a 10k deficit to fill to do this job properly and by that i mean, to do things like buy spare fairings, obtain mandatory signatures from club races, paintbikes, buy tyres etc etc.
We've done so well as team to come this far since January, i mean in Jan we had an old 600 due a refresh and come march we have a new bike and a Superbike. I have the budget now to prep them ready to start testing but then they are just going to have to sit unless something comes up! Letters and e mails keep going out but we havent hooked the fishy yet.
We're capable of running top 15 this year maybe even top 10. Somebody needs to see the potential and invest in us because 10-15k for a medium sized company needing exposure is not a lot of money compared to other advertising. If we do exceptional people will be frustrated that they hadnt seen the opportunity. Well thats what i think, but i'm slightly biased ;-)
I've done this before though where i have had the bikes sat there ready to go in 2012 after the TT i was leading both Thundersport GB championships, the 600's and the Gp1 class but had to basically pull out or go bankrupt!
This time, from experience i'm able to plan better and i'm trying to make sure we can fund things properly.
I potentially have some really exciting news aswell but i cant let on as yet as its depending on 1 thing but i hope i can share that with you all soon.
I'm tired now and up early for a run, checking out.
Goodnight all.
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