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Welcome Ross. Where are you based? As above. I got my forks sorted by Roger and got lucky finding Penske shock already setup for my weight. They're on my bike and it handles much better than I can deal with. From what I've read from other racers on here these bike make up for outright speed in hand...

Liverpool docks, docker walking out with a bricklayers hod on each shoulder with a chicken in each.

Copper says, "what you got there lad"?

Docker replies, "nothing, just odds & en's"!!

Yours was better!!!

Quick question to the aficionado's on the board. I've still not been close enough to a Firestorm to check, but from photo's I've seen it looks like a simple job of flipping over the shift arm on the end of the selector shaft to achieve 'race shift' of 1 up 5 down. Is this the case or will it need a ...

Nice picture :thumbup: if you just leant a little further forward and stuck your elbow out it'd be down, but then that wasn't the fashion back in 07 :lol: The best forks I've had were Maxton and Richard is really helpful. Not keen on their mono shocks though as to make compression adjustments you n...

Thanks for all the help & welcomes guys, I hope to have the complete bike before the end of the week so I'll get some 'before' photo's up. I've got another 2 projects to run alongside the Firestorm, 1 is a 1974 TZ350 in component form the other a 1991 Yamaha FZR1000 Exup. Priority will be to get...

Hi Firestorm peeps!! As a new member I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a 60 year old ex bike (250GP) racer, I retired from racing in 2011 and to be honest, up to about 2 weeks ago I haven't missed racing at all. Just lately I have been driving a bit too fast in my car and realised that I still hav...