Sharing the back page of MCN with Rossi,Toseland and Tommy Hill

This is me on the back page of MotorCycleNews pictured here changing the odd tyre at Thruxton from this year at British SuperBikes

Sponsorship

As pretty much everyone knows its a tough job affording to go racing.

I'm writing to ask for help with sponsorship so i can continue to go racing and continue my improved start to my short racing career.

I've shown that with a little bit of practice that i can finish top ten and even top 3.

If you can help in any way, by that i mean from money for entry fees, engine work, tyres or just oil and consumables

All help and contributions will be very much appreciated and if you were to invest a small amount into this project you will get a space on my bike for advertisement and you will get a frequent mention on theis site

Thank you very much

Simon Edmondson

For any information or if you can help me in anyway

contact me at

simon544@msn.com

Race 2 - Plum Pudding

I need to practice my starts, the 2nd start was awful again, even though i made up a few places going into the first turn, the track wasn't bone dry so i'd kept my wets on, a 400 your not really going to rip the tyres up as they've not got the power of the bigger bikes.

I felt more comfortable in this race and settled in pretty much straight away picking off quite a few bikes in the first few laps.

Only problem with these races is that 6 laps round Mallory isn't a lot for such a small circuit but i suppose for Boxing Day you can't complain.

I had picked up the pace quite well but the bikes in front were the start/finish straight in front, so i kept going and crossed the line in what i thought was 5th place.

When i went to collect the results sheet i saw i was in 3rd!!!!!!

RESULT!! i had a bit of luck in the front two bikes taking each other off but i wasn't bothered, i'd got my first top 3 finish!

WELL CHUFFED!!!!!!

Race 1 - Plum Pudding

After a long year of tuning the bike and getting everything as good as we could i was pretty confident of a good result, especially as the Supermoto's had been put in there own race.

The track was wet and it was pretty cold, but even so, starting from 24th i thought i'd do pretty well.

Red lights went out and it was go, YET AGAIN another terrible start (i really need to sort these starts out!) but i was moving through the field, it was a 6 lap race and i knew that a good start was needed but even so i was working my way through the field.

This was only the 2nd time i'd ridden on wets and wasn't doing too bad, a few bikes had past me in the first few laps but now my tyres were warming up and was starting to get grip.

With a few laps remaining i'd re passed the bikes that had come by and i was going well, round the hairpin and through the bus stop and i'd finished in 5th place. I was pleased with that as i'd started so far back

Plum Pudding Race

The 2nd year in a row i raced on Boxing Day in The Plum Pudding Races at Mallory Park.

Weather wasn't the best to start with but it was a pretty decent day weather wise and i managed to get another signature on my race license.

The day was set out with the cars, bikes and sidecars all racing in different classes.

I had 3 races and i was in with anything from 125 scooters upto 500cc Manx Nortan.

Video of the Dyno run

Bike finally on the dyno

Well finally managed to get the dyno running at work and got my bike on there, i was pleasantly surprised to see the power output but i suppose after the time,work and effort John had put into the engine it should have been expected. Also if i would have had some more money i could have had a bit more.

Rob did about 10 runs in all measuring different things, trying out the dyno and settings etc, but we managed to get a an average reading of about 63 bhp at the back wheel, which he told me was an SAE reading, and this was an accurate one, he said the UNCORRECTED reading was 68 bhp @ the back wheel but this wasn't really accurate, he also said that when he worked on the NC35's of FOGGY and HIZZY the HRC ones had 72 @ the back wheel so for the money that's been spent on the bike its very respectable.

So it's another big THANK YOU TO

JOHN QUAIL - for all the time, effort and general care he's taken in the bike, thanks a lot, it is a great bike you've built hopefully we can go win some races and get some return on your hard work!