Another hello from Norfolk

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smondo
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Another hello from Norfolk

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Good day people, I am in West Norfolk and have been a Firestorm owner since March 1997. Since 2001, I have been the owner of two Firestorms, (I know, greedy git). The second one is a bit special though, and will interest a few on this site, especially the likes of Mr bladeade. Yesterday I used the search engine on this site to find info' about Spondon / Honda Britain Firestorms, and saw that six have been found. Now many years ago I had a conversation with Mr Roger Ditchfield of Revolution about these bikes, as I have one. He told me that there were seven bikes made, five were Moriwakied, and two went to Honda Britain. I have the seventh in my garage.
As I am new, I believe that I'm unable to upload pics, but will do so on the correct topic / subject later.
Also hello to the Firestorm owner I met at the BMF Rally one year, (early 2000's) who also had a Spondon Firestorm and track day'd it at Anglesey, I hope you are reading this. More to follow later people.
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welcome along sir... and as many are about to say..PICTURES, WEE NEED DROOLWORTHY PICTURES :lol: :lol:
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Re: Another hello from Norfolk

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Welcome ,what took you so long. :wave: :thumbup:
SO WHEN DOES THIS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER KICK IN
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Varastorm
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Re: Another hello from Norfolk

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Hello & welcome, I often spectate at Anglesey as I live on the island.

I look forward to seeing you & the bike there this year??

They're very rare to see standard never mind a special at the track :thumbup:
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Welcome, you can already post pictures if you use a picture hosting site like photo bucket
AMcQ
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Another hello from Norfolk

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Hello and welcome .
Get some pics and more info up about your bikes .
That's 8 spondons now :-)
They must of made extra lol
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Welcome to the club fella. Bike sounds nice
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Welcome to the club. Look forward to seeing some picks of your bike
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smondo
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Re: Another hello from Norfolk

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Well, been sat at the computer now for two hours trying to get my pics from Photobucket, but no success yet. Let's see if this works! Yay

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HI .
very interesting to see another Spondon BSB racer ? thought they had
all been accounted for .
do you have any close up shots ? or any engine specs ?

YETI ..
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best colour in the background :thumbup:
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Have you any better higher resolution photos?
It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

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can you enlarge them wicky ?
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Re: Another hello from Norfolk

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Yo, when I bought the bike it had a standard engine in it, as the tuned one had blown. The valves had fought the piston on one cylinder and neither won. Still got the head, as has mechanics name (Keith Whitting) and Honda Britain engraved on it, bit of a mess inside though.
So, had engine rebuilt. Got crank balanced, Carrillo rods, Cossy pistons, flowed head and Moriwaki stage 1 cams. Original cams from good cyliner were sent to maker, (Joy cams I think), but nothing came back, so I've lost them. Special part to engine was the ignition system, made by Race Techniques in Cheltenham. Have still got all the parts, but needs engine out to set up properly. Use standard ignition system now, but Dyno Coils no good as refused to rev past 7000. Had it all Dyno'd by BSD and produced 122.54bhp. More info?
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Hard to tell from the pics but looks like the front pipe might exit left side of the sump, like this one (ignore the bike it's horrid but never seen another akra like it.
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