"Looking forward to racing in Maine in July, with an extra half mile and turning up the boost and nitrous I think we may be able to hit 170 if conditions are favorable.

Just wanted to share with you my new street ride, not quite 100 percent done but its rideable.  Still waiting on a rear caliper from Jay brake and I have to finish the 30 wet shot nitrous system.  Took it on a shake down run to philly from jersey and I have a feeling I will end up arrested on this thing.  Great 300 mile ride."

Michael Goñi

Travis Newbold

Nick Weimer #495

"So first race was this Saturday. I won both vintage classes after a long battle with my chain.. The crappy snail adjusters wont stay in place. During the heat race I got the whole shot and my bike threw the chain which locked up the wheel coming out if 4, I though for sure someone was gonna nail me but I made it haha. Had a spare chain in the trailer and ended up winning the finals for heavy and medium vintage. In open am I got a bad start but slowly made my way up through the pack (passed about 4 people) and finished 4th. Got home from that race at 2:30 in the morning, got some sleep then had to get up to make the next race at 11. I ended up second in sportsman and first in vintage. Oh and I was the classiest dude at the track with my ftw jersey. That things really comfortable. Next weekends a half mile, last time I was on that I shredded a belt on my rotax  dude to a bad pulley which took out the head. I dont want to be out another $700 so were gonna make sure everything's up to specks. Ill let you know how I make out." 
Later,
Nick Weimer 495

Travis Newbold

Howdy FTWCO,

Thanks again for blkbike radio, it has fueled me through building my new pikes peak bike built from a junk yard frame and a blown up craigslist motor. If anybody ever tells you that you cannot weld aluminum with an oxy accty torch tell them to fuck off cause you can. it just takes a week to learn. The rest are a bunch of old crf parts i had and a few nice donations from local small shops. To the track tomorrow to pop her darlen cherry. hope the zip ty holds the motor in!
Also muchos grassy ass for the super pimp jersey!
cheers, -747

Michael Goni

Got my photos from the Wilmington ECTA LSR race.  All records where open since this was the first event but we definitely set the bar high with our two records and we bested our previous bests by 11 and 9 mph.

Link to photos, https://picasaweb.google.com/114855508338718873544/OhioEctaApril2012

Official records set,

Michael Goni
MPS/PBF-650/4 162.555 mph
PP/P-650/4 123.083 mph


Here are the details I drafted,
We straight killed it this weekend, in complete juxtaposition to our usual race weekend with only two runs on both bikes we got the job done. Tech friday was a cold but sunny day but it was a bitter cold and rainy mess Saturday and Sunday morning.
Because of the weather and the huge turnout we couldn't get any more than one run a day, first run on Saturday on the black bike was a mess, the nitrous system failed from the get go and there was some gnarly 25 mph cross winds in the morning (enough that it almost spun a couple cars when their chutes opened) so I only got a 134 mph, it was a half of third gear run at a crazy lean angle to keep going straight. After that run I immediately jumped on the orange bike and ripped a 117mph run in a head wind/quarter wind with the bike running a bit fat.
While at the pits we started tearing into the nitrous system and it just straight monsooned on us so we did the lunch thing. After the rain we diagnosed the nitrous issue as a clogged nitrous jet. A piece of rubber from god knows where lodged itself into the small nitrous hole and mushroomed out the other end, thankfully it wasn't the fuel jet that got clogged as that would have grenaded the engine.
Sunday we waited 6 hours to make one run, by the time we got up to the starting line the wind turned around and we had a slight breeze of a tailwind the sun came out and things were looking up. Once the track cleared I let it rip and for the first time everything went 100% smooth, hit every 7300rpm shift point, nitrous ran smooth through three gears and I passed the traps at around 6900rpm. It was so smooth and uneventful that it felt like a 150mph run. Final number, 162.5 mph, we ran 4 mph faster than 1.5 mile Loring and 11 mph faster than our Maxton 1 mile best. Best part is that it was still pulling hard, given enough room we could have possibly ran 400 more rpm, so things are looking up for Loring this year, half a mile more might be enough room to hit our 170 mph goal (plus we still have a couple more sizes of nitrous jets and about 7 more lbs of boost available). After that run I jumped back on the orange bike and ran another perfect text book run that got me up to 123mph on the production record, besting our previous production record from 114mph!


Michael Goñi

Garrett Brittenham

Last week was a nightmare. My motor was a box of parts as of Wednesday evening. Race was Saturday. I got the cases, cylinder and head in the mail and went straight at assembly. Transmission SUCKED to get working right.

I still had a couple of parts to make too. I did about 3 versions of a master cylinder mount, 2 versions of a caliper hanger, and 2 versions of a pipe hanger.

Got it all buttoned up solid by 9pm the night before the race.

Day of the race, the bike blows a head gasket, and I'm SOL.

Luckily, I brought along the '83 TT600, so I was able to run that in the knobby class against a couple of modern kx450s and a KTM. Lowsided in practice and skinned my knee.

I spent the entire first heat in 3rd place, trying to figure a way around, losing a bit on the straights. I should maybe work out that almost 30 year-old suspension! The engine on that bike is great for flat track though.

On the last corner of the last lap, I pegged it around the outside and got by both of them. Won by a foot or so. Main event rained-out, so I came home with a 1st place trophy.

All in all a dang stressful day, but successful nonetheless! 

I'm waiting on a couple of hi-res pictures, but I thought I should send the report along and let you guys know we were wavin' the FTWCO flag!

Best part was my kids! My boy Joe won by almost 1/4 lap ahead of 2nd, and my daughter came in 3rd in a really close one.

Here's a video of the win:
http://youtu.be/GczzCpnty48

couple crappy pics attached too. Will send good ones asap.

Jud Linder #31F

Some pics from Circleville,OH

T-Rod

PJ Doran and Co.

In a Garage Far Far away..... (Well Nashville Superspeedway to be exact)... Someone left a 1st PlaceFeature Winner Dirt Track Trophy with PJ... It got to be a Joke since we always say there are never any Trophy's at Track Days... Well thats not true... This one has made the rounds for the last few years... It turned into a Joke but now is a weekly part of the Pits... Some of the tracks it has been to are Road America, Road Atlanta, Jennings, Roebling, CMP, Putnam, Indy, Miller, Barber, Talladega, Daytona, Nashville, and soon to be Mid Ohio... Several AMA Riders like Lewis, Pascarella, Aquino, Wyman, Hayden and Harris have all fought for this time and time again but they have never been able to earn it.... Maybe one day...

However this Trophy has been awarded to several people in our group as well as others... If you wreck you have to add a part... If you see this at a weekend near you come on by and take a look.... ponder and say..... WTF?

 and then the trophy grows...

and so it grows even larger...

and heads down to Florida for New Years..

Should end being one interesting year.

PJ Doran

Kinzer Naylor

 My first race weekend as an expert! I had a great time at Portland International Raceway. All the help I received was extraordinary. I had to start last in most of my classes.
    The first race of the weekend was the 600cc Supersport class. I started 24th on the grid, and after battling my way through the field, I ended up 9th after running off the track on the last lap. The next race up was the 750 Supersport class, which I started in 19th and ended up with a 5th place finish.
 Sunday races were next, and I was excited. I competed in the 600cc Superbike class , starting  25th and finishing 9th. The last race of the day was the Open Superbike which I started 10th and ended up 6th, racing against mostly 1000cc bikes on my 600.

 Special thanks to Steve Korol at evol technology for the  AMAZING rear sets , Rob Burch of the MotoFit Group for his  help and instruction, Chris Stricker of CMC Performance for the EXCELLENT Bridgestone tires and of course my AWESOME family!

  All in all it was a safe and fun weekend. I am looking forward to my next event at the end of May.

Kinzer "Speedy" Naylor #195

Michael Goni

Racing with ECTA this weekend in Ohio Jeff.  I forgot my charger for my laptop so the good photos will have to wait till I can get to a computer to transfer from the camera but here are some quick cell phone shots for now.
Just got both the bikes tech inspected and if the weather cooperates we will be ready to set some new records tomorrow.

Marc Perrone

Here is a screen shot of Marc Perrone rocking 

FTWco gear that was aired on Speed during the 

Road Atlanta Superbike race 1.

Kinzer Naylor

Garrett Brittenham

NO race!!!

Drove the 45 minutes to the track in questionable weather hoping we'd catch a break, but found out it was a rainout when we got there. Partly relieved, as my race bike is still in limbo (more below), so I was gonna run in the Hooligan class on my Sportster. We saw Travis 747 pulling in as we were leaving. Hope he stayed and practiced a bit, as he's got a long drive. The race got rescheduled for April 28th. Fingers crossed for nice weather.  As for why the race bike isn't ready... the engine is in Utah with Rich Gagnon at http://richstaylordporting.com/. It's getting some major porting done, plus the addition of a reed block. Looking like we'll get some big HP gains, plus smoother, wider powerband. Should be able to more than hang with the big-bore thumpers.  Couple of 2-stroke porn pics that Rich sent me are attached.  Got the new jersey and shirt! Awesome! Can’t wait to put it to use!

Thanks again FTWCO, Garrett302