Sam, that bike was a built-for-show bike. Cafe Racer TV. It had so many inaccuracies and BS it was ridiculous. One article said it had a RC Cobra 826 and another said it had a RC Cobra 936. It said that Larry Spiderman McBride built the carbs at a race. That was the funniest one Said it had a MTC tranny and Fast by Gast built the engine. Also it said Mikuni carbs but they are Keihin CR and they didn't know what size. He ran it in 1000 fuel class and barely managed to set a record at 109. It's really making me think of getting my 1000 out there.
Jerry, as you know, my drag bike would run that speed at the 1000 foot mark, haha.
I guess you weren't there when we had a run in with this Preachers crew and Cafe racer TV at Valdosta or you would have remembered.
The lads spent most of the day setting the bike up for them so that Rickey Gadson could ride it on the Monday and compare it to a modern day Kawasaki who Gadson is sponsored by.
They/we eventually got it running in our pit and it was real noisy. I reached into the tool box for a long plastic handled screw driver that we had to use as a stethoscope on the motor to pin point the noise. just as I was about to put the end in the region of the cam chain, I noticed there was no oil pressure on the gauge and at that moment, the motor cut out anyway because they had not turned on the gas. hahaha.
The screw driver was about a foot long so I dipped it in the oil tank and it came out bone dry, hahaha.
I'm not sure they should be reality TV motorcycle builders, they would be better off making Westerns as they are nothing but a bunch of Cowboys.
I have a couple of pictures of them with us but they are in my old computer until I can get them transferred.
P.S. They also said that Larry had rebuilt the carbs on this one. hahahahaha.