Happy Thanksgiving from Project Supertwin!

Well, we have not had too much happening in the Just-Us Racing race shop here in Colorado! 

 

Waiting on a few things and then we can get back to it, making plans now to go to the Isle of Man in August for the practice week of the Manx GP. Hoping to get a little more of this giant puzzle figured out and see how they run things over on the Rock! 

 

Kind of amazing to me all of the options to get to the Isle of Man and flying in is seeming to be the best/most reasonable way to get there. Was going to rent a car over in Ireland and ferry over but the ferry pricing is ridiculous to say the least so flying in is the way I am going! Visiting Joey's Bar is going to have to wait until 2015 I guess...

 

On other fronts I am also working on getting signed up for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, this will be my first "Real" Road Race and I am so stoked! I can't wait!!!

 

With that we will have some new updates coming soon, plenty of stuff in the works and it is gonna be good! Wishing all of you in the states a Happy Thanksgiving and hope everyone has a great time with family and friends.

 

Cheers!

Some new sponsors in the progress of Project Supertwin!

This weekend is gonna be fun! 

First off we would like to welcome a couple of companies that have come on board with the project! 

First up this beauty showed up yesterday from Moto-Heaven/HEL USA:

GPR V4 Steering Stabilizer

 Then, this afternoon this arrived from Air Tech:

New Style Honda RS250 A-Kit Tail

So now I know all of you are probably thinking, that looks good and all, but how is it gonna look on the bike???? Well, I got home from work and played around with this stuff a little and.....

After looking we will be modifying the tank mount and making this work easily!

A little trimming and subframe building will happen this weekend!

Sexy Rear End... Don't mind the lawn tools, leaves are killing me!

So Just-Us Racing would like to give Phil @ Moto-Heaven/HEL USA and Dutch @ Air Tech a very warm welcome to the team! We look forward to working with you in the future on this crazy path to the Isle of Man Manx GP!

Cheers!

Have I mentioned I Hate wiring?

Marking and splitting the harness up so we can get rid of the nonsense that we don't need!

I almost cried trying to figure this out!

That's a little better!

Adam checking out the seating position and seeing some decent progress.

More pieces of the puzzle keep arriving day by day here at Just-Us Racing's HQ in Colorado! Adam and Nik have been hard at work getting all the misc brackets and bolts all figured out. Along with the wiring nightmare of a bike with fuel injection and a sensor for pretty much anything and everything you can and can't think of! My Honda RS250 was so much easier to work on!!! Got some more stuff arriving this week so this weekend will be a race bike weekend, stay tuned for some more updates!

Is that an Engine getting installed???

2012 Ninja 650 Engine with only 153 miles on it arrived Friday!

Engine looks like it wants to be installed doesn't it?

Getting the engine installed required the help of my lovely wife Sue. ;)

One engine installed!

Pretty stoked to have the shock and engine in!

Well, that was interesting! Friday afternoon the engine and a bunch of electronics arrived and then I left to go up to Steamboat Springs for the weekend... Needless to say my mind was almost always thinking about putting this engine in and getting the rest of the components all figured out! So when we got home tonight the first thing I did was start putting the engine in! Heck I even got the wife to help!!! She puts up with me I think... Surprised she keeps me around honestly! Hahaha!!!

So now we have a wiring harness to work on cutting up and turning into a race harness and hopefully some bodywork arrives here this week so we can start cutting parts off the frame that we don't need! 

Stay tuned for more progress reports soon!

Shocking Day!!!

Penske 8987 3-Way w/Lindemann Engineering Race Compression Stack

And so it begins, installing more goodies to get the project "rolling" Literally!!! We now have a rolling chassis now that the Penske shock arrived today! Woot Woot! 

After some discussions with Ed Sorbo @ Lindemann Engineering we decided on the Penske 8987 3-Way Adjustable Unit with the Lindemann Engineering Race Compression Stack for the project, the adjustability of this unit will help with trying to tame the Mountain Course over on the Isle of Man and will be capable of doing pretty much anything we want it to do anywhere else. I am super stoked to get the bike up and running and see what this baby handles like!

Huge thanks to Ed, he is a stand up guy and can make just about anyone go faster by turning knobs and changing things on suspension components... I would like to see him wear some crazy Dr clothing with a "Mad Genius" hat on or something but that may not be professional enough! 

So, if you need suspension work done, call this place:

Lindemann Engineering 

Stay tuned as some more updates and items are arriving over the next few days!!!

The Easy Way To Install A ZX6R Rear Wheel On A Ninja 650

New Spacer Kit and Machined Hub to fit the ZX6R Rear Wheel.

Been a little while since the project has gotten any action!  

 

Blue Ridge Performance has a brilliant little kit to adapt the larger 5.5" rear wheel from a ZX6R into the ER-6 swingarm, he machines the hub to line up the sprocket and has spacers made so you use the stock ZX6R wheel bearings and is pretty slick. If you are looking to upgrade to a 180 rear tire on your 650 check him out!

Ahhhh, it is the little things...

The Brembo reservoir kit for the RCS 19 master showed up today so we got it installed, filled, and bled out tonight. Loving the adjustments on this master and the HEL Performance brake lines will make this one hell of a braking system, can't wait to ride it and really see how it works! Debating getting the remote adjuster for it... Plenty of time for that though!

We really don't know why Adam is smiling...

Now there is an upgrade if I have ever seen one!

After some issues with an order a few weeks later we have a complete set of tapered steering head bearings! Long story short we got the wrong kit in the correct package and then got the correct ones finally this week and got them installed. So the front end of Project Supertwin is almost complete... Brembo is sending a reservoir for the RCS 19 master cylinder and we can button the front end up hopefully this week!

Now it is time for a beer! 

Cheers!

Well, after a ton of legwork by my buddy James Boudreau this is what we have come up with for Project Supertwin to the Manx!!!

There are many things that will and have made the things happen to get me to the Isle of Man... My parents, my friends, and lots of dreams! So looking forward to this!

Tasty Carbon and Custom Blood Nickel Leathers...

Tasty Carbon Fender

Well, the front end is pretty much complete now with this nice little piece of art. 

Blood Nickel is my buddy Nate's company and he makes some kick ass leather race suits, he is also one of the first people to lend a hand with Project Supertwin and a stand up guy! So the Blood Nickel decal is the first decal applied to Project Supertwin! You need a set of custom leathers? Blood Nickel is your brand!!!

Blood Nickel Industries

Here is a couple of pics of Adam's leathers:

Rearsets and things to slow me down are cool

Sato Racing Rearsets, SEXY!

Brembo RCS 19 Master

Brembo Mechanical Clutch Lever

Adam says he is ready... The bike... Maybe not... ;)

Wow, lots of stuff arrived today! Got a bunch of factory bits and pieces in to get the front end solid and get the swingarm finally torqued in as well! Brembo is just simply amazing, the clutch lever arrived today and all I can say is WOW... Amazing quality stuff! Got the HEL front lines on thanks to Phil @ Moto-Heaven and once we get the rear end kind of figured out the HEL rear line will get put on as well! The big part of the day is the Sato Rearsets... These things are amazing, the quality is top notch and they come with ALL the pieces to get them installed! Yes, they are expensive, but the quality is there for sure! Now if they would get things setup for GP shifting I would be happy... I will be modifying them as I will not race a bike without GP shifting. Yes, I am picky! Well, that is all for now! More parts arriving next week hopefully! 

Cheers!

HEL Lines and a Brembo RCS 19 Master Cylinder

Some goodies arrived this afternoon for Project Supertwin! I think these will help with the stopping of said motorcycle! ;)

Adam got a little anxious and slid some parts together...

Starting to look like something!

Yeah, I slid some pieces together the other night to see how things were gonna look and fit. Waiting on a set of tapered steering head bearings and some misc hardware to get the front end bolted up and the swingarm mounts should be here next week... Guess I need to contact Ed over at Lindemann Engineering and get the Penske 8987 rear shock ordered up so I don't have to use a 4x4!

If you need any suspension work done, Ed is THE MAN and you should use him!

Shameless Lindemann Engineering Plug

Project Supertwin Scores Some Bits!

2010 ZX6R Front End

2012 Ninja 650 Swingarm

2009 ZX6R Wheelset w/Rotors

Well, we have a few bits and pieces here and I think we need to put some stuff together! As you will notice we are not using the stock front end from the Ninja 650, instead we will be using these Showas off of a 2010 ZX6R, the nice thing is that it is a direct bolt in replacement! The rear wheel from the ZX6R is a 5.5" and is going to be a bit of a challenge to get it fitted but will cover that when we get there later on.

I also follow a blog called "Project Pizza Race Bike" that Maria Costello MBE has put up on building a Supertwin. Tons of good info over there! Big difference is her bike is an older version with a different frame and swingarm among some other differences. 

Give her page a follow and check it out here:

Project Pizza Race Bike 

Project Supertwin Begins

2012 Ninja 650 Frame

With this frame an adventure begins for me, my friends, and family!

I will be aquiring bits and pieces to create my perfect Supertwin racebike to race stateside with the MRA and CRA in 2014 and she will be getting shipped over to the Isle of Man in 2015 for the Manx GP in August/September.

The bike we are starting with is a 2012 Kawasaki Ninja 650, in other parts of the world it is an ER-6f, we have done a lot of research and have chosen this bike because of the success it has had over in Ireland and the Isle of Man racing on the roads.

Stay tuned as I get pieces and parts I will post up what we at Just-Us Racing are up to and where the project is at during this whole build!