Hello,
it's some time ago that I've updated our blog but better late than never. Because we have some new names from companies supporting us for the new season, it was time to order new shirts and stickers. The start number will be as last year, # 155, and the basic layout we also kept the same.
Crescom (Server Hosting) merged with Cygate (Network Services) and we are very happy that Cygate continues with supporting us. A new logo of course and a different shade of yellow fitting to the Cygate logo.
Other new names are Multicom (Storage and Backup Solutions) who jumped on board with us and Laakeri-Center, a bearing company and not difficult to see the picture ;-).
Soon more!
Greetings,
Stephan
In this blog we will tell you about the racing seasons of our sidecar team starting from 2011 . We are Stephan Koppenol and Mikael Kärkkäinen. A Dutch-Finnish father & son duo driving together since September 2005. When we started it was just for fun, having a ride at the local tracks but everything changed after 2 years. First we did enter only some Finnish races but now this will be our fourth full season with races in Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Finnish Spring II
Hi all,
the first laps of 2012 are reality! We were last Saturday and Sunday at the Vantaa track riding for the first time this year. It was very cold and at some places the track was still frozen.
It felt like we've never ridden the hack before. How is it possible that after the long Winter everything seems to be forgotten?
As usual with a maiden-trip we had our technical problems too. I had to fix an incorrect position of the carburetor’s return spring and the head gasket was leaking. At the end a cooling tube got punctured and that was Saturday's result.
We went back to the workshop and took the cylinder head of. Because this engine has a copper gasket we could reuse it after glowing it with a torch.
Only no matches and again a trip to a gas station.
Sunday we were back on the track and now our riding was going much better. Only the head gasket was still leaking. 4 laps and then back in the paddock to let the engine cool down and refill the cooling system.
And Monday? Well, look at the pictures of the trip to my work that morning. For now we have time again to work at the bike for a while.
Greetings,
Stephan
the first laps of 2012 are reality! We were last Saturday and Sunday at the Vantaa track riding for the first time this year. It was very cold and at some places the track was still frozen.
It felt like we've never ridden the hack before. How is it possible that after the long Winter everything seems to be forgotten?
As usual with a maiden-trip we had our technical problems too. I had to fix an incorrect position of the carburetor’s return spring and the head gasket was leaking. At the end a cooling tube got punctured and that was Saturday's result.
We went back to the workshop and took the cylinder head of. Because this engine has a copper gasket we could reuse it after glowing it with a torch.
Only no matches and again a trip to a gas station.
Sunday we were back on the track and now our riding was going much better. Only the head gasket was still leaking. 4 laps and then back in the paddock to let the engine cool down and refill the cooling system.
And Monday? Well, look at the pictures of the trip to my work that morning. For now we have time again to work at the bike for a while.
Greetings,
Stephan
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