Hello All, My name is Steve, I’m not that good at typing or spelling so please bear with me.
I had raced a couple of Proddy YPVS 350 Yams & a jelly-mould CBR600 in the super-sport 600 class in the late eighties early nineties but sadly I haven’t had time/cash for bikes for a good few years.
Scan_Pic0003 by Farmfab01, on Flickr
Top pic Langbaurgh - Bottom pic Carnaby.
I always kept up buying Performance Bikes magazine & had been following their Triumph Daytona 595/955 project racer & had really enjoyed its story from the start, so much so that I decided to build one myself as it’s British and something a bit different and I always wanted to have another go at racing, as I’d never raced on a big bike or slicks & the only circuits I had raced on were Elvington, Carnaby, Cadwell, Mallory & Langbaurgh, So......................................
In the middle of November 2011 I saw a cheap 1999 Daytona on eBay (it had engine noise’s), so without telling the Mrs (she can’t say no if she doesn’t know) I set off on the 365 mile 9-1/2 hour round trip and I am now the owner of my own Triumph Daytona 595/955 project racer!
2011 097 by Farmfab01, on Flickr
(This is a picture from the ebay listing)
The first thing I did was make a list of all the things I thought I would need to do & parts I’d need to buy and trying to stick near to what PB’s own racer has tried as it has proved of what works by running near the front in thunder bikes, (which was the class I intended to race in) but also I didn’t want to copy exactly either as I have a few ideas of my own & also there is a very tight budget to (try) to stick to, so here is the 1st list I came up with
1999 Triumph Daytona Racer List: 1st stage
• Strip off all unnecessary road equipment
• Honda Blade 954 or Suzuki GSXR 1000 Forks & Yokes
• All Suspension/Head Stock & Wheel Bearings Replaced
• Race Exhaust System & (K & N Filter already on the bike)
• Light Weight Battery
• Rearsets
• Race Faring & Seat
• Race Rear Shock & Aprillia RSVR swinging arm
• A ZXR750 1/2" Rear Master Cylinder had already been fitted to improve the poor rear brake
• Engine repaired & tuned
My original plan was to run in the Thunderbikes club with a standard motor but on finding out there had been some rule changes (it meant running with R1’s in Thunderbike extreme) I knew some tuning would be required and having joined the triumph forum Triumph Torque (T595net) I quickly found out that there was a Race car firm that did a race kit by Wilcox Engineering but unfortunately this kit was no longer available, also having read in PB their plans to race in the Thundersport GB club, in the Golden Era Superbike class, and by this time the season had started, I had watched some of the racing on the I-player http://www.thundersportgb.com/i-player
This looked like good fun!
I had raced a couple of Proddy YPVS 350 Yams & a jelly-mould CBR600 in the super-sport 600 class in the late eighties early nineties but sadly I haven’t had time/cash for bikes for a good few years.
Scan_Pic0003 by Farmfab01, on Flickr
Top pic Langbaurgh - Bottom pic Carnaby.
I always kept up buying Performance Bikes magazine & had been following their Triumph Daytona 595/955 project racer & had really enjoyed its story from the start, so much so that I decided to build one myself as it’s British and something a bit different and I always wanted to have another go at racing, as I’d never raced on a big bike or slicks & the only circuits I had raced on were Elvington, Carnaby, Cadwell, Mallory & Langbaurgh, So......................................
In the middle of November 2011 I saw a cheap 1999 Daytona on eBay (it had engine noise’s), so without telling the Mrs (she can’t say no if she doesn’t know) I set off on the 365 mile 9-1/2 hour round trip and I am now the owner of my own Triumph Daytona 595/955 project racer!
2011 097 by Farmfab01, on Flickr
(This is a picture from the ebay listing)
The first thing I did was make a list of all the things I thought I would need to do & parts I’d need to buy and trying to stick near to what PB’s own racer has tried as it has proved of what works by running near the front in thunder bikes, (which was the class I intended to race in) but also I didn’t want to copy exactly either as I have a few ideas of my own & also there is a very tight budget to (try) to stick to, so here is the 1st list I came up with
1999 Triumph Daytona Racer List: 1st stage
• Strip off all unnecessary road equipment
• Honda Blade 954 or Suzuki GSXR 1000 Forks & Yokes
• All Suspension/Head Stock & Wheel Bearings Replaced
• Race Exhaust System & (K & N Filter already on the bike)
• Light Weight Battery
• Rearsets
• Race Faring & Seat
• Race Rear Shock & Aprillia RSVR swinging arm
• A ZXR750 1/2" Rear Master Cylinder had already been fitted to improve the poor rear brake
• Engine repaired & tuned
My original plan was to run in the Thunderbikes club with a standard motor but on finding out there had been some rule changes (it meant running with R1’s in Thunderbike extreme) I knew some tuning would be required and having joined the triumph forum Triumph Torque (T595net) I quickly found out that there was a Race car firm that did a race kit by Wilcox Engineering but unfortunately this kit was no longer available, also having read in PB their plans to race in the Thundersport GB club, in the Golden Era Superbike class, and by this time the season had started, I had watched some of the racing on the I-player http://www.thundersportgb.com/i-player
This looked like good fun!