Last weekend I was in Valencia track working with the Qatar Federation team in the last round of the CEV (Spanish Championship). We were in box 39 and I found that in the box next to us (box 38) we had a couple of interesting neighbors. Two Moto2 bikes with alternative front ends were sharing […]
Last weekend I worked in my second World Endurance Championship race with the Qatar Endurance Team, this time in the 8 hours of Oschersleben in Germany. The riders were Anthony West, Alex Cudlin and Mashel Al Naimi. The race went quite well and we finished in second position in the Superstock category, just 20 seconds
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I started writing this blog in 2007. Bottpower was not a company yet, at that time it just was my hobby. During some years, besides writing about Bottpower projects, I used to write also about other motorbike related subjects that I found interesting: other bikes, movies or documentaries, books, technology, races, etc. Once Bottpower became
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Last weekend I was in Jerez, in the second event of the CEV (Road Racing Spanish Championship). The main atracttion was that the moto2 raced for the very fist time, integrated into the Formula Extreme category. In Jerez we saw 4 moto2, the already known BQR (with Honda engine and chassis made by Kozono in
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In a recent post I mentioned that Claude Fior is one of the motorbike designers that I admire the most and that his 1987 250 GP bike is one of the most brilliant designs ever to me. Steven Burge (he also designs motorbikes and owns a Hossack which he races in UK) read that comment
Last weekend I was in Albacete track, in the 4th round of the Spanish Championship. Supersport and Formula Extreme categories have very restrictive rules, so 125 is the only one category where it is possible to find something a little bit more interesting from a technical point of view. Last season an english kid, Jess
Some days ago, Stoner and Melandri tested a Ducati GP9 prototype, the new weapon that Ducati is developing for 2009 MotoGP World Championship. The most interesting feature of this prototype is its new carbon fiber chassis. In principle it may seem odd that Ducati engineers have decided to build the chassis of their new bike
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Last week I was at the Dunlop tests in Almeria and Albacete (South of Spain) circuits. Every year, at the beginning of the season, Dunlop organizes this kind of tests to allow their racing teams to know and test the new tyres that Dunlop creates every year. There were several teams of the Spanish Championship (from Formula
Some days ago, reviewing the last posts of The kneeslider, I arrived to 95Racer’s blog, and I found a project with a very interesting approach, and moreover, very well carried out by 3Up-Racing, a group of people who have been involved in club racing in the UK for many years. Lately a lot of people
Kim Kronslev is a danish mechanical engineer who has designed and built his own motorbike, around a KTM 640 LC4 single. The chassis and the swingarm are steel tube multitubular structures, fully triangulated. The bike was computer designed using CAD software. I think he has done a great job. This is how the bike looks
