career I had many different bikes but never one that really suited me. As I was a privateer and had no full time support, I needed a bike with a starter motor and a reliable engine. None of my friends were in to racing, I grew up amongst the other side of biking, so I would turn up to race meets on my own. But I made life long friendships as thankfully the Supermono class was more of a community; all the competitors would often offer and give help and advice whenever they could and it was gladly received. The biggest issue for me was Q  By Martin Jarvis a class called the singles twins getting the dam things started and triples on a very unreliable As a youngster I never really and then if you got held up on got in to racing and the bikes Yamaha SRX 600 and was the grid they would often over I built were custom bikes with T-Boned on lap 3 of my first race heat and that could be your race by another novice. off the shelf parts or parts over, unless a competitor with That first year was spent fabricated by others. Then one his starting trolley was available learning to ride, on the road I day I bought a Buell S1 and to get you started again. Big my riding and bike preference thought I was a fast rider and cc singles were temperamental changed almost over night. at the best of times especially My Tribsa low rider would carburettor models. In 2009 never be ridden again, the there were two small teams who thought of riding a bike with had made their own chassis and no rear suspension and crap they convinced me to do the brakes was utter madness. same. Throughout that season My racing career started when I researched chassis design and I was 40 years old and was spoke to anyone and everyone I kicked off by one of those lunch could, also what engine to use time conversations about things knew how to ride, but it was and by the end of the season I very apparent once I started we would like to do before we had a plan. racing that I was Captain Slow die. Mine was to have a go at I bought a KTM 690 smc for circuit racing. My colleague said and had a long way to go the engine and electrics, sold before I was ever going to win well why don't you? to that I the rest on EBAY, my 450 Honda a race, if ever. Being over 40 had no answer, so that night powered Mono was stripped was not the best time to start I applied for a race licence, down for the suspension and racing but I was not alone in joined a club and never looked wheels and the rest sold on back. I decided that I wanted to the age game, just lacked the EBAY, my Buell was also sold experience. race in the British Supermono along with every other bike After the first year I managed except for the cheap runaround, Championship and set off in to get rid of my novice licence search of a suitable bike. My the MZ Skorpion sport. and at the age of 41 joined the first year of racing was with Everything else was going British Supermono Association. the British Motorcycle Racing to be fabricated by myself. This time on a DR800 powered Club (BEMSEE) and I raced in Being a CNC Programmer and Harris. Through my 11 year
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