{"id":23,"date":"2009-10-05T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/v3\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2009-10-05T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:14:26","slug":"personal-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/about\/personal-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a 1970 Honda CR750 that I worked on
\nthat was raced in various vintage racing series’, namely AHRMA & AMA throughout
\nthe 80’s & early 90’s. The CR750 was based on the venerable 1969 Honda CB750.Honda
\ndistributed a few of these precious factory racers, all of which were highly
\nsought after at the time, moreso today. This bike originally had a 4 into 2
\ninto 4 exhaust but in the 80’s, most had switched over to a typical 4 into 2
\ninto 1 exhaust. Today, the original 4 into 2 into 4 pipes are nearly extinct
\nas most were destroyed by the time the late 1970’s came. Today, most of these
\nbikes that you will find running around DO have a 4-2-4 exhaust, but very few
\nare the original pipes & most are carefully reproduced. Either style megaphone
\nexhaust on these bikes were VERY loud. I could write for days on the time I
\nspent preparing this bike till all hours of the night to go racing. It was tough,
\nyet rewarding.<\/p>\n

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This photo of myself (left) & multi time AMA Roadrace champion
\nJames Adamo in 1990 at the Holiday Inn in Daytona beach Florida, just across
\nfrom the speedway. We had a problem with the cylinder bores that day & at
\nnight, we had to change them out for new ones. This was taken just as we were
\nbuttoning it up around midnight. Jim wouldn’t let me do any silly photography
\nuntil we were sure we were going to be able to race the next day. We were at
\nthe track at 7am the next day. We re-installed the engine & were back racing
\n@ 10:30 am.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo taken just prior to the 1992
\nDaytona 200 Superbike race with rider James Adamo. I was the crew chief for
\nthe Gio Ca Moto team at the time. It was comprised 3 riders & many bikes,
\n“only” 2 of which I was responsible for. This particular year was
\nthe best finish Daytona finish ever for Jim. Finishing so high in the order
\nagainst the factory teams was the result of a few unqiue factors:<\/p>\n

We ran the largest capacity fuel tank that was allowed, which enabled us to
\ndo only 1 pit stop during which we added fuel & changed the rear tire only.
\nThe Ducati was easy on tires, but to top it off, we ran the hardest compound
\navailable from Michelin to be sure that we got the mileage out of it & Jim
\nmade sure to be easy with the throttle, sometimes letting slower riders get
\npast knowing that he would surely pass them back as they pitted a 2nd or 3rd
\ntime.<\/p>\n

This is yet another series of bikes I lost plenty of sleep over preparing for
\nraces all over the country. There were 2 bikes that I worked on. One was the
\nSuperbike in the photo, one was what was known as a “Pro Twins” bike
\nthat was used to compete against only other bikes of the same engine configuration.
\nThe configuration of the bikes were very different when I started working on
\nthem in 1989, but due to rule changes, they were essentially the same by the
\ntime 1993 came around.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo of me with James Adamo’s Pro
\nTwins racer @ Mid Ohio Sports Car Course, circa 1992.<\/p>\n

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This photo was taken by the renowned motorsports
\nphoto journalist, John Flory. John was able to capture me in all of my glory
\nduring an engine swap on the Ducati Superbike. This photo depicts me in my post
\nchicken pox state as well as the longest mullet I ever had. This is the most
\ndifficult to show photo you will find on my site, but I feel it captures some
\nreal action & the non-stop life of a race tuner that I lived in those days.<\/p>\n

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This was a 1970 Honda CR750 that I worked on that was raced in various vintage racing series’, namely AHRMA & AMA throughout the 80’s & early 90’s. The CR750 was based on the venerable 1969 Honda CB750.Honda distributed a few of these precious factory racers, all of which were highly sought after at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoenzo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}