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February 16th 2003
With the cancellation of the Official Practice Day,
we took the opportunity to use the day as a
testing day at Bere Regis. It felt great to air out
those winter blues, and the general idea was to go
out, test, come in change things, and go out
test… That was the plan. With Souls bike, there
was very little to change as he adapted to his new
brake 'pedal' well. Within literally 10 minutes he
was confidently zipping around. It was interesting
to notice how he was ale to hook it up pretty well.
His engine seemed to be running slightly more
clean and crisp. Looking at the overall picture, he
probably performed better than me -D.
I had an interesting day with the RM. The first and
continuing problem of the day was the carb
running too rich, and consequently flooding. We
changed various things - bar settings etc… but
none of this helped when he high-sided after
hitting a post. The cause of which was the
throttle jamming open on entry into a corner.
Ouch, and yes it did hurt! Alan Parker certainly put
me to shame on his sparkly TM. I didn't see him
much though as he was off!! Looking in good form
for this season, so good luck to him.
We'll be putting together the final preparations
over the coming weeks, and should hopefully have
everything singing and dancing in time for March
2nd at Martinstown. Hopefully we'll see you there.
February 4th 2003
Although theses guys don't actually sponsors us, I
still think the boys at Crescent Suzuki deserve a
mention as they've always looked after our Road
Bike. But on this occasion the gratitude goes to
Engine wiz, Mr Phil Gibbs. Phil has a basically taken
the time to give Soul's engine a little clean up with
some porting etc, but mainly just to match
everything up. Obviously with a 50cc Auto engine,
you're fairly limited to the improvements you can
do, before you start to compromise reliability. The
improvements should hopefully offer an extra 1 or
2 BHP, and we all know that every little bit helps.
January 20th 2003
Once again we find ourselves thanking IN-CHAINS
for another job well done. As part of the great big
master plan, we decided that it would be in Souls
interest if we removed his bar mounted rear brake
lever, and converted it to a foot brake.
Easier said than done, unless that is, your name is
Nigel Milward. With his technical and engineering
wisdom, he's managed to construct a trick little
rear brake lever and mounting. Essentially, it's
come straight off of a TM 125, and as is with all of
the fantastic TM range available from IN-CHAINS,
the levers are fully adjustable. Soul's really chuffed
with his new brake and can't wait to go testing.
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