Dirt Quake II: It's coming

Promo for the Dirt Quake II, to be held at King’s Lynn, UK on 8 June, 2013. Chopper speedway oval insanity with added pie!

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Go to sideburnmagazine.com/dirtquake/ for more info.

WSBK : Marco Melandri heads QP1 at Monza

World Superbikes’s first qualifying session at Monza was longly delayed as the track had to be cleaned up after Mitchell Carr’s Triumph leaked oil from the Serraglio to the Ascari chicane during Supersport qualifying.

The QP1 started with some sun and a dry track so lap times dropped with Marco Melandritaking over the top of the timesheets with a best lap of 1′42.883, even if their were some drops of rain during the halfway mark, which fortunately didn’t turn into a rain show.

Jonathan Rea also moved forward to take second in the finale, demoting Aprilia’s Sylvain Guintoli to third after he led most of the practice.

Tom Sykes was fourth and more than six tenths from Melandri and followed by three Aprilia riders, Althea’s Davide Giugliano, Red Devil’s Michel Fabrizio and Aprilia factory’s Eugene Laverty. Loris Baz was 8th fastest, while Fixi Suzuki’s Leon Camier and Jules Cluzel closed out the top ten.

Chaz Davies was only 13th but he crashed out in the first minutes of the session at turn 8 and was unable to return to track because his BMW was scattered in serveral pieces.

As expected on a dry track the Ducati riders were much slower, Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovin, were 11th and 12 respectively losing more than 20km/h in top speed. Checa’s top speed on the Panigale was 311,2 compared to Marco Melandri’s 331,4.

2013 WSBK Monza QP1 Results:

01- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – 1’42.883
02- Jonathan Rea – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 0.274
03- Sylvain Guintoli – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.627
04- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.638
05- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.740
06- Michel Fabrizio – Red Devils Roma – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.966
07- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.073
08- Loris Baz – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.078
09- Leon Camier – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.223
10- Jules Cluzel – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.583

from Twowheelsblog

1992 Honda CB250 - Rene9ade Custom Motorcycles

So, by now you'll all know about Throttle Roll, and if you're in Sydney next weekend you'd be crazy not to come along and join in the fun. But maybe you are crazy - crazy enough to ask ‘why?’ Well here's exhibit A in your mental health review. It's a unique take on a late model Honda CB250 from Rene9ade Custom Motorcycles, and it along with more than 40 other killer builds will be making an appearance at the show.

Ren de Haas is the boss and ‘Chief Awsomiser’ at Rene9ade. We spoke to him about his latest build. “The bike is a '92 CB250 twin. Internally, it's very ordinary and nothing much has been changed with power delivery or drive train. The bike was in a pretty rugged state on delivery, but it ran so it ticked all the boxes. Then we got to work.”

“The client was my long time upholsterer and one of the best fabric guys in the industry. He had this bike for years and decided on actually doing something.” Ren collected it thinking he was just fitting a longer clutch and accelerator cable, but he chatted with the customer and within minutes a new custom build was commissioned. “He had a tank and a seat already. Other than that, I was given full artistic license.”

“He told me I could do whatever I thought would look cool - as long as it was minimal, raw and a little rugged.” Ren mentioned some ‘ratting out’ would be cool, and he was duly given the thumbs up.

A lot of time went into making this thing look at ‘crappy’ as it does. “I wanted it to look old and ratty, but also on a second look, like it was not an old bike at all,” Ren states. “I am pretty sure we achieved this. It has a mix of old and new parts, lots of aged bike bits, some modern Dan Moto gizmos, and plenty of use for old welsh plugs here and there.”

“The frame was shortened, a plate fabricated up and fitted, custom seat mount, gauge mounts - the side-slung tacho is something love. A lot of wiring, welding and painting. And some messing around with acid to get the darn thing to rust up the way I wanted. Overall this was one fun build, my partner Mick and I had a ball creating this one-off piece and would love to take the rat look to the next level on a future build.”

If you're take by Ren's work, it's not exactly hard to catch the guy. See, as of right now Rene9ade has shops in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Jakarta. Drop by one of his shops and say hi, or better yet, why not catch up with him at the show?

from pipeburn

WSBK : Jonathan Rea tops FP1 in rain swept Monza

The fourth round of World Superbike season at Monza kicked off with the first free practice at the temple of speed on a rain swept wet track, which was less about top speed and more about avoiding dangerous crashes in tricky conditions in the various parts of the circuit.

Remembering all the controversy surrounding last year’s wet/dry conditions at Monza and last year’s intermediate tire that was blasted by riders, this year Pirelli has disegned a new one especially for this round, the Diablo Wet.

Taking the top of the timesheets in the first 45-minute session was Jonathan Rea who posted a best lap in 2.05.912 early on. The Pata Honda rider is debuting a new fuel tank to optimise aerodynamics and better electronics.

BMW’s Ayrton Badovini jumped up to second in the finale with his Panigale that now has a different air restrictor and demoting Tom Sykes to third after the Kawasaki rider had held the position for the entire practice.

Kousuke Akiyoshi, who is replacing injured Leon Haslam seemed particularly at ease in the difficult conditions as fourth fastest overall in his debut on Pata Honda’s Fireblade.

Jules Cluzel was 5th and the last rider to within a second from Rea, while Eugene Laverty, Loris Baz, Chaz Davies, Leon Camier and Marco Melandri closed out the top ten with very few completed laps around the circuit.

Missing from the grid is HTM Racing’s Ivan Clemente. The team has decided to sit out this weekend’s round

2013 WSBK Monza FP1 results:

1 J. REA GBR Pata Honda World Superbike Honda CBR1000RR 2′05.912
2 A. BADOVINI ITA Team Ducati Alstare Ducati 1199 Panigale R 2′06.166 +0.254
3 T. SYKES GBR Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-10R 2′06.347 +0.435
4 K. AKIYOSHI JPN Pata Honda World Superbike Honda CBR1000RR 2′06.598 +0.686
5 J. CLUZEL FRA Fixi Crescent Suzuki Suzuki GSX-R1000 2′06.632 +0.720
6 E. LAVERTY IRL Aprilia Racing Team Aprilia RSV4 Factory 2′07.142 +1.230
7 L. BAZ FRA Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-10R 2′07.840 +1.928
8 C. DAVIES GBR BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK BMW S1000 RR 2′07.910 +1.998
9 L. CAMIER GBR Fixi Crescent Suzuki Suzuki GSX-R1000 2′08.681 +2.769
10 M. MELANDRI ITA BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK BMW S1000 RR 2′08.781 +2.8693