Blame it on the H's

Steve and wife Caz, happy to have him back in one piece

Engine that poor Steve manage to blow up

Wasn't his fault. Kent cams end cap came out and puched a hole in the cylinder head, look by rag.

4 weeks later I had purchased my FJ for grand sum of £275.00 & have started work on her, slow but I have made a start ( I am busy man), 8 weeks later I had my ACU licence. Now the plan was to race next year but Phil kept tempting me with the offer of his spare FJ racer for the rest of the year, he even sank as low as to email me the pictures from their last meeting saying “look at what your missing out on, the offer of the spare bike still stands”……….talk about dirty tricks or what !!! On top of the emails I had Liam in the shop every other day saying “ have you got your licence, Phil will let you have the spare bike for last couple of races you know”, so now I had two of them on my back & as Caz will tell you I am weak & easily lead astray by these two.
So people as you can see in the end I had to give in & asked Phil if I could have the bike to do a track day on & see how I faired.
On September 8th we all went to Snetterton for day of testing . I was getting a feel for the FJ & was doing fairly well until we had an engine failure in the 3rd session, this is what happens when you borrow other peoples bikes. Phil took the bike back to his workshop & sorted the problem & then last weekend I was reunited with the FJ for my first race at Anglesey. I will be honest I was dreading this for various reasons, the main being that I didn’t want to let anyone down or disappoint anyone who had helped to get me to this race meeting. So how did you do I hear you ask, well ok is the answer & if you want to know the results look on Fjracer.com but one thing I will tell you is that I had a blast, great time, great company , what more could you ask for. Now all I need to do is thank Phil for the loan of the bike & the on going help, Liam for the on track help & introducing me to the rest of guys.
I guess I should just tell you a bit about the bike before you drop in to a comma completely from reading this……………
How does it go? As good as my old mums broomstick, I passed modern day machinery on it first time out so its no slouch by any stretch.
How does it handle? To be fair Phil has done a great job of setting it up & I could not fault it.
How does it stop? Squeeze the front brake lever & the bike stops like a kid running in to wall.
Complaints ? One or two, the first , I took the toe out of my boot so could do with an inch or 2 more ground clearance. Number two it’s not mine !!!!
Below my £275 racer project (still on going)