just have to say a big thankyou post to mark ,



as some of you may know mark is supplying me with my wrc style rear end setup for my series 1 cossie amongst other cool parts ,


well with a load of questions brimming around in my head and after speaking to mark on the fone he invited me down to his place to not only answer all them questions but to give me a chance to check out his setup



all i can say is wow !! i was like a fucking kid in a sweet shop , custom billet yb parts , trick cnc machines , his trick framed ducati corsa engined streetfighter , that must upset everyone in a 5 mile radius !!


but it was when he started showing me is new custom parts hes designing like his own billet water pumps , billet roller barrel throttle bodies ( insert sex wee here ) and his new design all alloy yb engine block

i do think hes going to be moving yb tuning up a notch with his new block , wet linerd , 4 bolt mains , build to the same specs as us style alloy drag blocks


so to mark i say thanks mate , learnt more in a cpl hurs than i have in months lol , i need to find another job to buy all the bits i want lol

i cant wait till your new units up n running !!!!













ohh and the trick framed gixxer turbo that will run on cosworth management - dizzy n all lol is just nuts !!!!!



ill look forward to poping bk in a cpl weeks to collect my cradle !!





beef

 

you felt like you were in heaven beef

i cant wait to see and hear more about this block mark is manufacturing

 

Ae there supposed to be pictures in this thread or is the stupid spacing there just for no reason at all?

 

stupid spacing is where i took a breath , + the prototype alloy block is away being heat treated so i simply saw the cad design ,

no i didnt take pics, marks got alot of money tied up in his workshop , i didnt feel it right to go snapping away ,

im sure when mark sees this he will post a few pics of whats hes comfortable showing ,

 

I'd love to see the pics of the turbo gixxer as I've built a few myself.

 

Doug get a few pics up in the bike section

 

nice,but is he up to turning some flat borbet centre caps hmmm??

 

daz , center caps !!


peice of piss !!

 

 

doug , lol if like me your into your streetfighters like i am ,


youd be amazed as to who mark is ,


when he told me the company he used to own and run i needed to sit down lol

 

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mark if i get some life insurance and bring my helmet and jacket ,





can i have a go ??





lol

 

hey mate they are just sat there ,i have 4 just come take one no probs

mark

 

may have to pull two out the garage and go for a little run out fella !!



best tell the missus ill be a bit later getting bk on my next visit lol

 

do you think you would be able to keep up with me mate lol ,you best take turbo

 

pmsl ,

dont let the chubbyness fool you ,


taught foggy all he knows lol !!

 

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Your crackers

Some nice work comes out of your place.

Out of interest have you got any videos of your cnc machine at work ? I could spend hours watching that sort of thing

 

Beef ,,,Marks setup is the bollox like a dentists super clean and the hmmm of the machines working,it is an eye opener when you see some of the products,I must agree if the blocks come out good then i think he will corner the market,keep it up Mark

 

Your crackers

Some nice work comes out of your place.

Out of interest have you got any videos of your cnc machine at work ? I could spend hours watching that sort of thing [/quote]

hi will take one .just starting another batch of uprights

mark

 

Mark,

I have just figured out who you are.

MARTEK!

 

Just figured it out. VERY cool machines.

 

hi mate ,yes once again good parts just crap at buisness getting there now i was younger then and had no money and it was a struggle ,am looking at making the ally frames again

 

I might be able to find you your first customer. A mate of mine is having one made by GIA but is haveing to wait six months for a slot. He has always gone on about how much he would have liked a MARTEK....

Is that WP based bike the one Guy Martin now has??

 

hi yes he has it now ,its a very heavy modded wp frame ,i am just building another very trick one ,but if your friend wants a tube one i have one with banna arm neary ready to go

thanks mark

 

Know nothing about Bikes but those look a serious bit of kit

Fair Play!

 

this was the start of my new frame

 

Can you PM me prices on the nearly ready to go. I'll pass them onto my mate.

More pics please!!!

Where did you get the extrusion for the duke frame spars? What grade ally is it? Did you just make a form and bend the spars in a press?

Making my first swinger at the moment. One day i hope to build my own frame. I'm using 6082 as i cant afford the min quantities of 7020 you have to buy. That stuff is hard to get hold of! I've found the 6082 bends ok if you warm it first. Unfortunatly doesn't have the self hardening properties of the 7020 so i might end up building an oven to bake it in.

 

how is your yb block project progressing mark?

 

pic of my supermoto

 

have i just ruined my chance of them caps now

 

Apart from the awesome bikes. I'm looking in the back ground and getting some serious machine shop envy.

This is my little set up when i first moved in. It gets me by and i'm only really just learning what you can do with a mill. I'd love something that didn't need windy handles one day.

 

sorry for jacking your thread beef but mark will you please please please send me some pics of your side feed rs turbo manifolds ive asked you many times but you never do even tho you say you will! ive never had to try so hard to buy something lol!!!

 

Wow this thread got a shit load better since my previous post. Awesome craftsmanship

 

yes i make all my frames out of 7020 ,the extrusion is the same material as spondon made the norton frames for spray and nation out of ,ihave some left ,6082 isnt very good because after welding its like chewing gum , there is another alloy that is like 7020 that is available ,i make my plenums etc out of it and all my other parts that i weld,that regains 90% of its strengh and you can buy in sheet and plate, if you heat treat after welding unless you have left all bores and brackets etc undersize and then machine after nothing will fit and frame wont be straight ,because of the movement with the heat

 

Is it 5083 that you are on about in sheet form? I once spoke to the guy who used to make all the Kenny Roberts gp chassis' and that's what he used. Only problem is 5083 work hardens over time so might be ok for a season of racing but not sure how good it would be on a road bike.

I think you might be right on on having to machine/ream bearing housings after fabrication.

I thought that dram looked like the spondon on. Those rotaries were awesome bikes.

Do you manage to make all the billet bits from 7020 too? It just seems so hard to get hold of.

How did you go from fabricating bike frames to all this cnc machining? Amazing stuff though and hopefully Mk motorsport will be a success for you.

 

lol pmsl @ the tags lol ,


some folk dont realise when you spent most your life reading magazines with marks bikes in , to actually meet the bloke who built them is pretty damm cool ,


im deffo getting a frame built !!! just looking for a donor bike ,


beef

 

was it kieth you spoke to at kenny roberts,its not that difficult to get hold of ,aswell as making frames i cnced all the frames gussetts and yokes rear sets etc,then worked at castrol honda making parts for the sp1 race bikes and super sport bikes ,thanks for that i hope it is

mark

 

heres a pic of my first turbo bike

 

Get some pics up of this yb block Mark

 

HI when you say side feed ,do you mean like a yb one

mark