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by PIW19
6 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Really need to get on here more often, PM sent over the Ducati question and it really is down to personal feel and if you switch to the 4 pad per Brembo caliper off the later Ducati's, cheap off ebay, the difference is night and day and the pad options can be more track/ fast road orientated if you ...
by PIW19
6 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Back on the road at last
Replies: 4
Views: 3456

Re: Back on the road at last

Looks great! - brings back memories of dropping of my Laverda 750s at the Alto Performance workshop many moons ago. Alto have been quiet of late outside of showing their Vyrus based project named Rage and its been 10 years since I last enjoyed the brutal factory Raptor signed by Claudio during a vi...
by PIW19
6 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Back on the road at last
Replies: 4
Views: 3456

Back on the road at last

The race rep is finally done and the proud owner of an MOT so its time for some miles this year after living in the garage for the last 3 years. With the larger discs finally fitted to the old carriers, courtesy of the Disc Doctor bespoke wavy rotors and a rather pricey set of IMA clipons to finish ...
by PIW19
6 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Latest update is that most of the parts arrived as expected and the yokes and forks are now onto the bike as you can see and would have been a little more complete if it wasn't for some rubbish top hat nuts to put the fairing and indicator pods back on. In my opinion these are the forks and brakes t...
by PIW19
6 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Hi all, been a while but thought I would share the next installment in the race rep project given I have finally got around the engineering stuff after other projects / life got in the way. The picture shows the old girl awaiting her now front end, in the form of an MV F4 1000 fork, yokes (triple tr...
by PIW19
11 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

I know it's going a bit off topic but have to agree on the handling of the Lav 750. We had a number of Jurno's ride the bike after a good season on '03 and all commented on the neautrality of the handling and the Paoli units front and back complemented the the setup. Designed by GP fame guru Nico Ba...
by PIW19
11 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Hey DB, if you're refering to the orange offering, believe me I have given them quite a rub, both ends, must be a technique thing and look forward to reviewing your methods :mrgreen:

Fingers crossed she makes the trip and hope to see you all there.
by PIW19
11 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Sorry about missing the link (me and computers are not match made anywhere), count me in, unlikley to be camping but happy to call by. Any excuse for a serious ride out from the Stockport area! Alto base in Northampton so will make that the return target.
by PIW19
11 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Hey all, silencers on the race bike are indeed Beowulf as new sponsors of the Alto Team from 2011 and now on its new bike known now as Rage, formally a Vyrus based bike ridden by Phil Read Jnr. . My plan was to replicate the bike as it was back in 2003 when Claudio signed it and it wore Blueflame ca...
by PIW19
11 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

Re: New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Thanks for the comments so far and do get it does stray from the point of the raptor look but tried as best we could to retain as much as possible despite not being very practical for racing. Rear shock is a 3 way adjustable Nitron unit kindly supplied by them as a sponsors of Alto Performance, it a...
by PIW19
11 years ago
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New member of the fold - a rather different offering
Replies: 29
Views: 17152

New member of the fold - a rather different offering

Good morning all, new to this forum but not to Raptors in general after being converted some years ago after racing one of the ex factory beasts some years ago. The bike below was completed as a replica of the Factory race bikes bought from Baines Racing back in 2003 and painted in Alto Performance ...