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Project Zip – The Saga Continues…

With 2010 upon us the racing calendar is something we’re paying close attention to. With a day of testing at Mallory in the bag we know what we need to do now and the changes we need to make. So how did it go for our intrepid riders Josh and Sam?

Friday 05 March: With an early morning start we loaded three scooters into the van, one of them being our 70cc Polini-prepped bike and the other two being 77cc bikes from last year’s BSSO championship. Two hours later after some strange navigation from the man in front (cheers Ian) we arrived at Mallory Park in Leicestershire. After a swift nut and bolt check on all three bikes we were ready for the first practice session to begin. After a gentle seizure on the drag strip at Elvington on Daisy’s last outing in 2009 we were confident that we’d found the problem and wouldn’t repeat with an early retirement, however you never know and I think that was in the back of all our minds. With a change in ignition timing and improvement in fuel flow we knew we had good power for a 70cc but would it be enough to be even close to the big bore 77s?

With a muffled tannoy call from race control the first session began. We quickly found out that Josh was struggling with the new suspension which meant he couldn’t swing the bike into the bends as much as he wanted to. In addition it seemed that Josh wasn’t getting quite enough power at the rear wheel. Later in the day, just as he was starting to get into the swing of things, progress was cut short when a black flag was waved summoning Josh back to the paddock. It was at this point that track politics kicked in ending the session early – “WEBCAMS AREN’T ALLOWED”, exclaimed the controller pointing to our helmet cam. Just to clarify, our camera is a professional piece of equipment designed specifically so that it can be attached to a helmet and, although we’d sought permission to film at Mallory prior to the meeting, a breakdown in communications meant the staff at the circuit clearly weren’t informed.

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