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off to do the 750 mile moped ride tomorrow so wish me luck...
will my banger of a ped make the distance lol.

blew it up (again) on saturday on the way for mot so spent all day building a new engine & transmission for it, then built a stinkwheel for a mate, then put together another 4 banger for another lad....
tonight ive been working on an aprillia sr50 for another rider.. it's been non-stop!

theres prizes for the first fail, fastest, best mpg, first kneedown, longest wheelie, rattest ped & blingest.
i dont think mine will get any!

keep an eye out for us on eurosport at brands on the 8th & 9TH - JAMIE WHITHAM IS PRESENTING THE TROPHYS & HANDING OVER CHEQUES TO THE AIR AMBULANCE & CJ RIDERS FUND

we've got a lap of brands after the racing all being well, then the after-race party.
i'll be wearing a leprechaun suit lol!!!

so anyway.... last chance to dig deep and donate a few quid to worthy causes.
click the just give link or paypal.... or if you see us at any of the tracks we're visiting, come & say hello & buy a few raffle tickets (ace prizes, again to be drawn by JW on the sunday)

check out the webby!

http://www.beastrun.com

Good luck benny have fun


Can't ride but it don't stop me trying

Good luck, I will put a few quid in for your cause

AMCQ46 wrote:Good luck, I will put a few quid in for your cause

good man

pm me benny and i'll paypal you a few quid, hope you enjoy the ride.....hahahaha

good luck m8,see u and the lads if soz i mean when ya get back

Sounds like fun ... Good luck

Good luck mate

Hope you lot all manage this ok

Contribution made.
Last I heard this am was that he'd broken down, and was waiting for a welder!

I'll be meeting him at Brands on Saturday, assuming he makes it, so will try to get a few pix.

surprised they didnt have full welding kit in back-up truck...........piss poor planning

if any one gets any other up dates let us know....we should have had him tagged so we could track him on the internet

AMCQ46 wrote:surprise. we should have had him tagged so we could track him on the internet

He's tagged already, surprised they've let him out past curfew.

And latest updates will be in his local paper, court section.

If anyone is interested, you can see who broke down and where they are on these threads

http://www.northwestbikers.net/forum/in ... msearch__1

http://www.northwestbikers.net/forum/in ... 6pm-today/

They'll have been the only bikes that passed the plod with his speed gun today that were under the limit!!!

Take it easy if you'r visiting our corner of the world, for the last four miles or so.

And the DVLC tax checking cars are always parked up between the M25 and Brands, so keep a wellie over your numberplate, like us locals do.

Benny, I put my contribution onto the Just Giving link in the home page. looks like it is set up in the name of some other bloke, but it all goes to teh charity in the end.

still waiting for the full write up of the trip, the bits I have seen sound character building to say the least.

well done

just got back from the hardest 1000 miles ive ever done lol!

before leaving for the first stop at oulton park, was meeting a few other riders just round the corner....
we'd spent ages trying to sort his aprillia sr50 ped without much luck... it appeared to be loosing primary compression due to leaky crankcase seals so i rebuilt the bottom end and left them to it as i ws fooked.
next day it stil wouldnt run... turned out he'd fitted the new piston with the arrow pointing upwards instead of toward the exhaust port!
result = the rings hit the exhaust port and bits fell into the bearings so it all had to come out again.
a few hrs later it was running though backfiring a bit, which i thought was cos it had been rebuilt with loads of 2t oil like you do... turns out it had the wrong type of spark plug.
anyway... alls well with that one and once it was running ok it tops out at 70mph lol... not bad for a 50!

so off we went, first stop oulton park, just 22 miles for me.
my ped was running ace, very torquey with good top end even though i was carryng my 15st and camping gear!
one of the lads asked me to have a listen to his ped which was 'making a funny noise' = death rumble. mains & big end fooked.
a few miles later it seized and had to be recovered.
fortunately it was rebuilt overnight by some kind chaps (for free) and he got it trailered back when we got to thruxton.
while we were waiting for recovery, another mate pulled up on an amazing monkeybike chopper he'd made out of 2 scrap peds... his woudnt restart either so i had to take the battery off mine to get him firing.
we hadnt even got out of town yet lol!

so anyway we got to oulton and got rather pished & i ended up throwing up which didnt really fare well for a 6am start surrounded by what sounded like a swarm of angry wasps all day.
got to donnington with no issues, next stop mallory park... filled up with fuel, hit the starter, nothing.... just a spinning gear.
turns out the splines on the starter gear had miled a perect slot in the crank.
fek. i'd used my spare engine on saturday.
fortunately thanks to the very helpfull maintenance crew at mallory i was able to get it migged to the splined kickstart gear & back on the road missing just a few miles of th ride.

meanwhile my bud daz had broke down on his hired bike (this was after his 17 1/2hp pug speedfight had 100s spent on it, then was diagnosed with a bent frame so couldnt go on the road!)
he got his recovered by a very helpfull AA biker to a local shop who diagnosed a blocked exhaust and fitted a new one then delivered the bike back!

cba going into every detail but you get the picture.... it was a bleeding nightmare lol! so many fails!
one lad managed to get his knee down in the carpark at silverstone but then binned his ped = another roadside repair!
then another failed with main bearings - tony to the rescue. then a 25yo honda melody sheared the same gear as mine... tony to the rescue.
guy was an absolute star and everyone was impressed with how helpfull he is played a blinder there m8 & saved the day for a few of us

we had a slight mishap with the free tickets as well.... the could only supply 8, then another 4, but seeing as there were 34 of us!!!! they managed to get us all in for the raing in a van, though i spent all saturday rebuilding 4 peds.
mine sadly ended up being used as spares and i rode another lads bike home

anyway, it was a cracking doo, especially the fancy dress disco last night which was hilarious!
lots of dosh was raised for good causes and lots of pics (and vid) will follow.

cheers again to those of you who donated your hard earned... the donate link btw was set up by paul who built the beastrun.com site but i asure you every penny raised goes to its intended recipient

what a final race as well - fantastic!!!

did anyone see tony on the telly?

btw nice to bump into styler today on the road back pleasant surprise!

sorry didnt manage to catch up with any of the other vtr members - saw your flag up but it was miles away lol!