StinkWheels

25/07/2024

22/12/2023

Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

We will be closed from this afternoon till Wednesday 27th Dec.

20/10/2023

Sorry still no phone lines working. You can reach us on our mobile 07881 528882.

Seems British Telecom are unable to do this for us.

19/10/2023

Sorry anyone trying to call us today, our phone line is down. So you just get it ringing and it doesn't ring with us. Trying to fix it asap.

22/07/2023

We can finally announce that we are now an official TFL Motorcycle ULEZ testing centre.

You will find us under the name of “Essex and East London Motorcycle ULEZ testing centre”. Stinkwheels didn’t seem appropriate 😊

If you have a bike that is not currently exempt from the ULEZ charge. We can test the bike’s emissions and make it exempt for you. Most bikes pass the emission level, should yours not we are able to adjust the bike and re-test it. Price of a test is £175.

Don’t forget the ULEZ charge is extending to the M25 in only a few weeks time, so don’t get caught out by this.

Give us a call today and book your bike in.

25/05/2023

Our latest bike build is finished and just in time to be on display at this weekends Bike Shed Show.

Yamaha RZV500 Barry Sheene Tribute bike.

30/04/2023

Some Classic Superbike action in the workshop this week. Beautiful Honda RC30 in for a new retro Gibson Exhaust can. Had to put it on the Dyno to listen to that iconic V4 noise.

07/03/2023

It's taken us a bit longer than we hoped, but we can finally say we have our new dyno up and running now.

A bit newer than our previous dyno (which was the first dyno in Essex!). We now have a Dynojet 250i with the latest Dynojet Powercore Software.

So now as well as the usual power runs and race bike set up we was offering before. We can now help with setting up your fueling, power commanders, etc

07/03/2023

Seems to have been a long winter, but finally the 2023 race season is almost upon us.

Bit of a strange one for us this year. We won't actually have a bike on the grid that is ours. However we do have one of the busiest race seasons ever planned. So here is a quick run down of the teams 2023 plans.

We will still be supporting the same riders as we did last year as well as continuing our sponsorship of the CRMC 125cc Championship.

#24 Scott Carson - Scott will be riding the Ten Pin Bowling Harris TZ350 full time this season. He will be competing in the CRMC 350cc Post Classic Championship again and also taking on the GP Originals Championship. Alot of work has been done on the TZ over the winter and he hopes to be running at the sharp end of both Championships. Also new for 2023 Scott will be riding the Harris at the Goodwood Members Meeting in April. So a very busy start of the year.

#42 Adam Carson - Adam will be riding again in the CRMC 125cc Post Classic Championship, hoping to beat his impressive 3rd place in the championship last year. Adam will be on the Ten Pin Bowling Honda RS125 this season. A much improved bike over his own RS from last season. Adam's first meeting is this coming weekend at Brands Hatch, where he will be competing in the Blue Haze class at the 1st round of the BEMSEE Calendar. We are using the weekend to set up the bike and gain valuable track time for Adam. So he is ready to go at the first CRMC meeting in April.

We will be helping both riders out all season both in the workshop/dyno and at the track. We have our Yamaha TZR250 all ready to go for extra practice and classes if needed over the season. As well as a couple of other bikes of our own that we plan to get out on track later in the season.

We haven't forgotten #28 Mark Taylor either. Mark will be riding for the second season with Oakdene Classic Racing on their Manx Norton. He will also be very busy this year riding their other Manx Norton in the Lansdowne championship, as well as some one-off rides in the CRMC F750 championship on their Norton 750cc.

So in all a very busy 2023 season. We will keep up all up to date on the race weekends and hopefully be adding some video content this season as well.

25/01/2023

Just got this ultra low mileage Yamaha YZF1000R Thunderace in this week.

Only 1000 miles on the clock! It sadly has been stood for years and kicked over several times in the carpark it was left in. To make matters worse the owner had a Yamaha dealer take it to get back on the road for him. They certainly didn't know what to do and have managed to butcher the ignition lock in an attempt to start it. Shame they didn't leave it alone, if they had half an idea they would have spotted the alarm under the seat!

Everything is like new under the years of cobwebs and dust. Fairing has sadly taken some knocks and the can has a dent in it. Still on the original tyres! A weekend of cleaning and it would come up like new.

Here is some pictures to look at. Personally never seen a bike, year alone a Thunderace in such good untouched condition. It is 27years old.

So what to do with it? Will need a fairing, ignition lock and a few other parts to make it great again. Or break it for parts, anyone looking for parts for a Thunderace would love to get their hands on these bits. Or build something from it. With such low mileage it would be a great donor bike for an OW01 replica.

05/11/2022

Yamaha R1-z exhausts done for a customer this week.

We can do one-offs as well as the range of Allspeed exhausts.

31/08/2022

Don’t normally do a pre race meeting update, but we have a few people to thank for getting us to this event I thought I should do one 😊

After the last CRMC meeting at Donnington we had a poorly FZ600, it developed a rattle and to be honest we thought nothing of it and had to get the following weekends meeting out of the way before it could be looked at.

How wrong could we have been! Scott Carson spent every bit of spare time he had checking the engine over, taking it apart and putting it back together again and again. Still nothing.

Last week Scott bought it down to the Allspeed workshop to fit a new head gasket, as it was suspected that was the issue. 9pm that night we started it up and hear it was still rattling, but now getting worse. More investigations and a phone call to the guru of FZ600 engines Alan Cooper confirmed what we didn’t want to hear. The crank was gone. It seems the FZ engine doesn’t like being on its side at times and the crash at Donnington must have staved the crank of oil and started it to break down.

Next day the engine was pulled apart and yes one of the shells had broken up. So, in steps our master mechanic here at Allspeeds Jason. He managed to build another engine from an old spare we had that had top end issues and use what he could from the engine we had been using. We had to wait 24 hours for a new head gasket to arrive, so this took us to last Thursday before it was ready to fire up. Engine sounded sweet, just one issue. It thinks it is a steam train. It smoked like hell, why we don’t know.

A plea on Facebook and another engine was found that has been in someone’s shed for the past 5 years. Also, Derek Cripps contacted me to offer his complete bike for Scott to race. Luckily enough both the bike and the engine were quite close to each other. Saturday we headed down to collect both.

With Scott and I already busy on the Bank Holiday weekend. It was Tuesday evening before we could get back to working on the FZ. Result being at 2am last night we had a running FZ600 to race again at Snetteron! A huge relief, Scott is so close to winning the championship this coming weekend, neither of us were going to let something like no engine get in the way.

Big thanks to Alan Cooper for his advice whilst we tried to find the issue. Jason for trying his best to get an engine together we could race on and a massive thanks for Derek Cripps for the loan of his FZ. We have prepped that as well, so we have a back up plan if anything else goes wrong 😊

Roll on Snetterton and lets get this Championship