| Simon is well aware of what he is up against, he has won the NG 600 Championship twice been runner up in the Open class, this year he raced in the Metzeler Superstock championship at BSB meets he also took the 748RS to 2nd place in the SoT race at Castle Combe when we were there racing the DD bikes.
in 2004 he quallified on the 2nd row of the Castle Combe Superbike Grand National but was ruled out following a high side in quallifying, but not after he had out quallifired Rutter, Emmett etc in the wet session which was followed by him being haulded off for a chat by Rob Mac. Simon has also done a few MRO rounds and the odd BSS round, so he knows how good modern 600s are.
He has had the 748RS for a few years buying it from Mark Williams the Year Mark beat Phil Bevan to the North Glos SoT title.
If he says it needs improving then I for one believe him.
The engine department is taken care of as he lives just up the road from Alan Shirley who will hopefully find a bit of time to help look after the bike even though he has shut his business down to go and work for a race team again.
Now its time to turn a 2000 Supersport spec 748RS into a Open 600 class race bike, to try and compete against the latest from the land of the rising sun and with Tim Radley's tuning thats 135bhp out of a CBR600 with 51.8ft lbs of torque.  |