griff851
Awesome people. Just a short run to get it up to operating temp. Then 10min of being really naughty. Twist and go, what a concept. 3 gear grab a hand full, front wheel off the bitumen and away we go. Loud, raw, brutal, effortless power delivery, and on rails. Does life get any better? Reeled it in at 240 kmph , don’t want to upset the locals acreage owners too much. 😏
Amazing how many much more beans it has compared to the Motobi. 😁
griff851
Thank you.
Gp2’s. They came off a German race bike that was in a museum/collection of some kind. The bike was parted out. Circa 2006. They did 2 trips around the world before they arrived.
The bike up grade began just as the forum began, with discussions and help from Marvin, Steve ((Mr R) and Phil and few others it all came together. It corresponded to a time when there seemed to be a lot of 851/888 were being parted out. Ebay was full of spares cheap. I think I paid $200 for a pair of naked drop cam heads, $400 for the crank. $90 for the ECU, $100 for the ST4 exh, $500 for the ST4S cams, $650 for GP2’s, a couple of hundred for flat top pistons I ceramic coated, $100 for 748 throttle bodies which I threw on the lathe and bored and modified transition ramp, resulting in a very very responsive throttle. ( don’t sneeze mid corner or it’s pear shape time). The 888 cases came from Brook Henry unstamped ex race stock from last of the series. which he’d procured from the factory in some nefarious deal he’d done. Cost me a set of bevel heads and barrels. I still have Raymond Roche’s clutch master cylinder, not fitted though. The bike was disassembled after end of season.
The distributor here were also dumping their spares stock, and I was working in a shop that had a few race bits and pieces. Alloy front and rear sub frames, floating discs, Fren Tubo brake lines, fuel regulator, fuel modules, FIM megazone chip and HHT. Paint C/F RR tank, C/F 2 piece airbox tray thing, rear seat cowl, super light forks and hollow axle, DU440 Ohlins, adjustable rear rocker assembly. Race ratio primaries.
Weighs in at about 168kg wet with 5 litres of fuel from memory. Holes drilled in rotating things that you can drill out, oil pump drive etc like corsa. 1098 radiator with revised cooling plumbing. I whipped up a C/F electronics tray, and did some port and combustion chamber playing. Kept me amused for a few years.
I weigh 72kg suited up and it comes online at about 6000 and spins out to 12000 in 6th, and gets there rather rapidly, pulls like 996 I’ve be told by a mechanic mate who took it for a wiz. Peaks out about 260kmph. A bit of weapon really.
I couldn’t have done it without Brads Blacks work and am eternally great full for his published work. Onya Brad. Legend! And he’s a great bloke.
