As the title suggests, it’s been a pretty amazing day. Mostly all concerned with the Shadowfax project. First of all a member on KSRC (Kawasaki Sports Riders Club) suggested that we publish a list of things that we still need in order to be able to complete the project, so I posted back that we will need an exhaust system. Within half an hour a member from Qld posted that we could have the Kerker exhaust off his Z1R project as he had purchased a better one. All we needed to do was to pay freight. No sooner had that post been made than another KSRC member posted that he would pay the freight for us. Amazing. Here’s Dave’s bike and the exhaust system that he’s donated. You can see that it’s very close in appearance to the pipe that the bike originally sported (only much neater!)
Then, yesterday afternoon, I had a phone call from Kent Miklenda, one of the original riders of the bike and the guy who gave it to me back in 1995. We spoke for nearly 2 hours and he filled in huge amounts of detail about all sorts of areas, which I will document on the Shadowfax page.
Since then we have exchanged a raft load of emails and I have received a lot of pictures of all sorts of things, race posters, ticket stubs from the Coke, and this glorious B&W photo of the bike on the grid at Oran Park just before the race.
And, an exciting development has just arisen tonight that I can’t reveal because it’s not confirmed yet, but, if it comes off, it will make an enormous difference to the timing and completion of this project. Watch this space.
In MotoGp news, Loros Capirossi will miss next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix after re-injuring his already dodgy shoulder last weekend at Aragon. It’s turning into a nightmare last year of racing for the Italian veteran.
Carlos Checa could wrap up the WSBK championship this weekend at Imola and his task has been made considerably easier by the withdrawal from the meeting of Max Biaggi, still unable to ride after injuring his ankle at the last round.
Oh and Damian Cudlin’s team was fastest in this morning’s warm-up for the Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race.
Short and sweet tonight, talk to you tomorrow.
dunc says
its all coming together for the rebuild phil
this might interest you for the bike
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-900-1981-CBF-tachometer-/220683421756?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3361c1c83c
Phil Hall says
Thanks, mate. I have bookmarked the page. Appreciate the input.