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We had sometime without talking about the BOTT XR-1. The project is very advanced, the main parts are already fabricated and currently we are assembling the bike and finishing all the details. This is a task that takes time if you want to do a quality job. The next photo shows the XR-1 front, we already placed the oil radiator, the lights and the steering lock, which is located in the same position than in the origin

As you can see in the pictures, the BOTT XR-1 project continues going ahead. The base of the bike is already built and currently we are working on the fibers (fueltank, seat and front numberplate). Now we enter a phase of the project in which details are very important. The final version of this BOTT XR-1 first unit will have a lot of special parts: a silencer coming from the race kit (the unit of the photos is the s

The XR-1 project is going ahead in a steady and constant way. As you can see in the photos, the construction of the first chassis is very advanced. We still must weld the shock mounting point and some other details. In the following days we will start with the bike assembly. We look forward to see it standing.. and to test ride it! As always you will find larger photos on our Flickr gallery.

We just received from South Africa the firsts prototypes of this CRP silencer, built specifically for our Moto2. As always Graham Coker has done a great work. Our first race in the CEV is at less than 2 weeks, and this is one detail more to complete the bike. The next “big thing” we must receive is the final bodywork.

If we don’t find an unexpected problem, we will start testing the M210 in two weeks. We are anxious to see the bike on the track! Meanwhile we continue working in a lot of details that are necessary to finish completely the bike. For example the instalation of all the data adquisition sensors, which require the design of small parts to locate each sensor in its position, in order to make it work properly and al

We already have the airbox conduit with us, in 3 days we went from a drawing in the screen to a real part ready to assembly on the bike. I want to thank Ineo for supporting our project working in a very fast and professional way. Your can see a bigger photo in our Flickr gallery.

The swingarm is probably the most complicated part of the whole bike regarding design and manufacturing. It is also one of the most critical parts when you want a race bike to achieve its full potential on the track. The swingarm project has been approached in collaboration with CRP South Africa. CRP is a Technological partner in the Bottpower project contributing in the swingarm design, building and development proc

Last weekend the first races of the CEV 2010 were held in Montmeló. We were not there because we are not yet ready to race yet (we will probably not make it to the second race to be held in Albacete). I watched the races on TV and the truth is that the Moto2 race was fun to watch, with a very fast Jordi Torres, a spectacular Santi Hernandez (the progression of the two Colombian brothers Santi and Yonny is amazing) an

We continue working very hard building our Moto2. Graham Coker, from CRP South Africa has been almost two months in Spain working with us. The initial idea was to work only in the swingarm but he finally helped us with a lot of things… bodywork, fueltanks, chassis, etc. Working with him is been a very interesting experience, and I think that we both are interested in continuing our collaboration in the future,

These days we are building a first prototype of our Moto2 in oder to move it to Barcelona, to Anima design studio. Anima designers will use it to build the bodywork. We don’t have ready yet the fork and the swingarm that the final bike will use, so we built a “mix” using the CBR fork and swingarm. Compared with previous posts, now we have the subframe. The subframe and the fueltank fit very well in