Work on the forks

Some pics taken while performing some work on the Showa forks in an attempt to improve the Speed Triple's front end.

Speedy's first been put on a jack to help fork tubes sliding down

A fork tube opened 

What's in a fork ?

Pastoral workshop ... 

Standard progressive and K-tech linear

Springs and inner tube

Reassembled tube ready to be filled up with 15 grade oil

Coming next is the headstock bearings change.

Some more inspiration

Exactly what I had in mind ! (the fairing that is)

(Credits Spirit of the seventies)

Tweaked R1100S

Now this is one seriously tweaked R1100S (from Japan) and one that actually gets raced given the transponder on the forks.

From the picture, this advanced track version comes with Öhlins shocks (at least at the front), Brembo Oro calipers, side exhaust (though keeping the stock down pipes), tasty rearsets and a total loss system as the generator and poly-V belt are missing.

Inspiration - Sharky Daytona

Spotted this neat sharky Daytona on Rocket Garage.

Rossi wins Assen TT

80th premier wins for Rossi. It's good to see that happening again.

(Photo credit CycleWorld)