Suzuki SV650 Cup

Round 3
Race City Motor­sport Park — Cal­gary, AB
3.2km

Raphael Archam­bault of St-Colomban, Que. won his first Suzuki SV650 National Cup round by 16.272 secs. over Philippe Masse of St-Dominique, Que. Pole­sit­ter Jere­mie Hade Pre­court of Granby, Que. took third.
        
Archam­bault picked up the Tirox Won Big­time Award for enjoy­ing the largest mar­gin of vic­tory of the week­end and took over the class points lead.

 Raphael Archam­bault rides on Elka Suspension.

June 12, 2009 (Isle of Man, UK) – The Brammo Ener­tia rid­den by Scotland’s Mark Buck­ley was the first place fin­ish­ing production-based bike and third place over­all in the his­toric TTXGP elec­tric motor­cy­cle race.  Part of the 102nd year of the Isle of Man TT, the TTXGP fea­tured elec­tric motor­cy­cles from around the globe in a single-lap race of the 37.73-mile street circuit.  

  The Brammo bikes reached top speeds exceed­ing 102 MPH, amongst the fastest in the field, and turned con­sis­tent aver­age race lap speeds of over 75 MPH. Brammo rider, Mark Buck­ley was pleased with the run.  “I think the bike had a bit more in it, but we have to be happy with third over­all.  I was thrilled to be a part of this team.  They worked hard all week, and we made some history.”

Brammo Direc­tor of Prod­uct Devel­op­ment, Brian Wis­mann, had this to say about the Isle of Man race expe­ri­ence.  “We are really proud of our rid­ers, Mark Buck­ley and Roy Richard­son and the whole Brammo Best Buy team.  Our engi­neers were able to learn so much about the per­for­mance poten­tial of elec­tric motor­cy­cles and Brammo will con­tinue to apply this knowl­edge to the Ener­tia and future Brammo pro­duc­tion models.”

 Brammo (www.brammo.com) is a pre­mier spe­cialty vehi­cle man­u­fac­turer devel­op­ing sus­tain­able per­for­mance prod­ucts for the next gen­er­a­tion of trans­porta­tion.  Through inte­gra­tion of dig­i­tal engi­neer­ing and high impact design, Brammo trans­forms ideas into com­pelling prod­ucts.  Located in Ash­land, Ore­gon the com­pany was founded in 2002 and is pri­vately held.

The Fines Dou­ble Rac­ing Team has suc­cess­fully defended its 2009 SCORE cham­pi­onship run with a vic­tory in class 26 (Pro Util­ity ATV) at the 41^st Annual SCORE Baja 500.

“We felt we were pre­pared for any­thing, that is until we lost our pit cap­tain, Alex Waters, to a prior injury,” said Ruther­ford. Waters had to be taken to a San Felipe hos­pi­tal dur­ing the team’s week of pre-running. An injury he received, while rid­ing his ATV in Utah the week before, turned into a seri­ous infec­tion shortly after he arrived in Mex­ico. The guys kept run­ning their sec­tions, but with fre­quent calls to the San Felipe hos­pi­tal. Waters was never far from their minds. Unfor­tu­nately, Waters would not be able to leave the hos­pi­tal before race day, due to com­plex surgery and high doses of antibi­otics. After some changes to the pit strat­egy, the Fines Dou­ble Team was once again ready to race.

The Fines Dou­ble Race Team would like to thank its spon­sors that made this win pos­si­ble: Arc­tic Cat, Elka Sus­pen­sion, Green Ball Tires, Flu­i­dyne Radi­a­tors, Klim, Rox Ris­ers, Speed­w­erx, RTT Sta­bi­liz­ers, Vision X Off Road Lights, Planetmoto.com, Dou­glas Wheels, Motion Pro and Spi­der Grips.

Look for the Arc­tic Cat and Fines Dou­ble Rac­ing Team at the BITD Vegas to Reno “The Long Way” Race in August, and then again at the Baja 1000 in Novem­ber, where the team intends to nail down the first ever SCORE Utilty Class Championship.

 For more infor­ma­tion, pho­tos and race videos, check out the teams web­site at www.finesdoubleracing.com

Mirabel, Que­bec – (June 14) The Sec­ond round of the 2009 PARTS CANADA SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP was held under a sunny sky at the beau­ti­ful ICAR race track in Mirabel Quebec.

This 2.81 km cir­cuit con­sists of 14 high speed curves and the young Sebastien Trem­blay was able to take the lead on board his Elka equipped Kawasaki ZX-6R and fin­ish in first place in front of an enthu­si­as­tic crowd.

His ELKA equipped Kawasaki worked flaw­lessly and he was able to set a best lap time of 1:29.513.

Pho­tos cour­tesy of Sébastien Nadeau-Jean  

H&M’s Davi Haagsma pulled his very first win in the WORCS Pro-Am class ear­lier this month in Toutle, Wa. Haagsma, who had to start off the back row, came from all the way back to win in the unfa­mil­iar wooded atmosphere.

“We had a small mishap with a rear shock and sign-ups on Sun­day, but Davi came from way back and laid down very con­sis­tent lap times to come away with the well deserved vic­tory. He’s been train­ing really hard and has got­ten alot stronger over the last sev­eral months and we credit that to Vernie Ogden from Per­sonal Edge Fit­ness (Davi’s trainer). All in all, it was a great week­end for our team.”

Allan McCostlin of H&M Team man­ager McCostlin gam­bled a bit as well and it ended up pay­ing off.

“I could see Motowork’s Zim­mer­man com­ing into pit and I decided, “Well it’s now or never” so I elected to send Davi one extra lap before fuel­ing. He was able to get around Dil­lon on hot pit and when he came back around for pit, we didn’t give him water, no gog­gles, just a splash of gas and go. It was enough to keep him out front for the remain­der of the race.”

McCostlin H&M’s Justin Klinger con­tin­ues to get faster in the B class and he will be back for Strad­dle­line as well. Both Klinger and Haagsma are hav­ing a great year for the H&M crew…

Davi Haagsma rides on Elka Fac­tory Shocks

Because of the involve­ment of the Beck­man fam­ily in rac­ing, we real­ize that the next gen­er­a­tion of pro rac­ers will cer­tainly increase the level of com­pet­i­tive­ness on the circuits.

Greg Beck­man who is the founder of Apex Motor builds the ATVs that the Beck­man Broth­ers race with, and they are win­ning big time. He now builds and sells a full line of Pro MXR Long Travel 50/70/85/90/100 ATVs.

 The whole fam­ily are com­mit­ted to rac­ing and they are set­ting a great exam­ple to all, but they are mostly great con­trib­u­tors to the future of our sport.

Here are the results of the last WORCS race that was held at the Riverdale Race­way in Toutle Wa….WORCS Round #5

 Shifter Open                                      Tan­ner Beck­man  #154  250cc
Shifter Open Sport                          Tan­ner Beck­man  #154  250cc
12–15 Shifter Open Sport              Tan­ner Beck­man  #154  250cc
Sport 8–15                                           Tyler Beck­man   #88   90cc
90cc Mod­i­fied                                    Tyler Beck­man   #88   90cc
70cc Open                                           Travis Beck­man  #6    70cc
70cc Mod­i­fied                                    Travis Beck­man  #6   70cc

 Teri Beck­man quoted « These classes were all won with the Elka shocks of course.  Thanks to your help set­ting the shocks up and adjust­ing them at Ade­lanto and again here at the Toutle race! 

Your help was greatly appre­ci­ated.  In the rough con­di­tions, the kids faced at Riverdale, with­out the shocks being dialed in the boys could have never done it!  It is eas­ier to go fast with a good sus­pen­sion set up.  I am so happy to have the Elka shocks on our quads. — We are look­ing to bring Apex and Elka 6 maybe 7 National Championships! »

You are greatly appreciated.

Teri Beck­man

Apex Atv
http://apexatv.com/

This is Chris from the United King­dom. – I just wanted to let you know that my new Pro Elite shocks are awe­some!  They worked fan­tas­ti­cally well on the 1st round of the track National at Duns.

This track fea­tures many big dou­bles and also two « whoops » sec­tions and the ground is made up of hard packed clay.  I strug­gled a lit­tle on power but my dad is work­ing on some more engine mod­i­fi­ca­tions. Thanks to my Elka shocks, I posted 3rd & 3rd in both motos fin­ish­ing 3rd over­all on the day.
            
Thanks.

Chris­t­ian Mor­ris 250cc Air cooled #1

Hello Chris and thank you for tak­ing the time to write us this let­ter. We value your com­ment and we want to wish you many more great moments like you expe­ri­enced dur­ing this race.

 Elka staff

In the sec­ond race of the « France Endurance Cham­pi­onship Series » which was held in Clas­tre in l’Aisne, Greg Las­saigne man­aged to cross the fin­ish line first after a long and chal­leng­ing race.  The weather was calm and even if Las­saigne feels at home on this cir­cuit, he still had to be the fastest on a track that has 23 jumps. – You can only imag­ine the beat­ing on the frame and suspensions.

 Photo: Greg Las­saigne and his win­ning com­bi­na­tion of a Can-Am Ds-450 equipped with Elka Fac­tory shocks.

Toutle, WA: 06/09/09 – Mike Cafro who is team MCR’s owner and man­ager is a very happy man these days as his new team and new rider Beau Baron man­aged to cross the fin­ish line in the num­ber one posi­tion for a sec­ond race in a row. – This gives them a com­fort­able lead in this year’s WORCS Pro Championship.

Beau Baron cap­tured his last win on the Riverdale race­way sit­u­ated in Toutle WA. This beau­ti­ful 4.3 mile loop is sit­u­ated 60 miles north of the Ore­gon border.

Track con­di­tions were per­fect and so was the weather dur­ing this last race before going into the sum­mer break.  Team owner Cafro and rider Baron will cer­tainly enjoy this vaca­tion time. Let’s hope it con­tin­ues afterwards.

Beau Baron’s Honda 450EX is sus­pended on Elka Suspension’s Fac­tory Shocks

Pro ATV
Beau Baron Atas­cadero, CA HON 10 2:01:47.4 
Jere­mie Warina Lake Elssi­nore, CA CA 2:02:12.7 
Jar­rod Mcclure Kaska, PA HON 10 2:03:55.7

Click here to see a short video: http://elkavideos.com/Worcs5.wmv

Leon Beda on board his Yamaha YFZ 450 man­aged to put out the fourth fastest time dur­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tion on the Asham Woods track in Frome, Som­er­set on Sun­day may 24^th, thus giv­ing him a good spot at the gate in order to reach the holeshot in a good position.

Con­di­tions were dif­fi­cult because of the heat and dust, so Beda rode more defen­sively to keep Mac­beth at bay and fin­ish in the fifth spot, which in turn con­sol­i­dated enough points to give him the fourth overall.

 In the lat­ter stages of race two, the dust became a prob­lem for the rid­ers but this did not refrain Leon to make a bold attempt of over­tak­ing KTM UK’s Team Rider Paul Holmes and grab the third spot, but Holmes was solidly defend­ing his line on the steep hill in front of Beda who had to brake hard which cost him sev­eral bike lengths and his momentum.

Beda was able to ride hard all day long and with con­fi­dence thanks to the Elka\Laeger sus­pen­sion.

 Leon Beda is now con­cen­trat­ing on tak­ing third place in the Championship.