speedway bike

[lollipop155]

Hi there, my partner has brought a really lovely speedway bike that he is slowly "doing up". Probably a really daft question but is there such a thing as a manual like you can pick up for various models of cars? Helen

[warped one]

Haynes manual will probably be the best. Just search the make and model on google and you'll probably find it.

Any pictures of said beast?
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[lollipop155]

I will try! Bare with me, Helen, oh and thank you.

[MarJay]

[DrDonnyBrago]

[0ddball]

Might be useful to join a speedway forum. Guys who work on them will have a better idea than generic books.

[Teflon-Mike]

Is it a speedway bike, or is it a grass-tracker?
Grass-Trackers are the more oft found leaking into private hands, & the defining feature is they have rear suspension.
I spotted one on e-bay the other day, A 'Junior' class bike with a Truimph Tiger Cub 200 engine in a Hagon frame. Delightvul little thing... but they are virtually useless as anything but static display models!
Pure speedway bikes have no rear suspension. For many years they used JAP engines, but from the mid seventies Jawa motors took over, & I have NO Idea what they use these days!
Do know that they run horendouse compression ratio's and are tuned to run on Methanol, not petrol.
There's not much too them..... and they aren't exactly high tech, BUT, dont think that a haynes manual, even if one existed would be much help.
You might find a manual for the engine, that would give some 'guide' info, for things like valve clerances, ignition timing & that kind of thing, but as the motor will almost certainly have been tuned, not much of its likely to be accurate.... each engine will have been built (probably time and time again) for the Pro-Racer whose bike it was in. Then tuned for each race.
Probably more helpful than a manual, would be as said, trying to research the bikes 'providence', and find out who, in its glory days campaigned it.
Its a small world.... motorcycling a smaller one still....... motorcycle racing smaller yet, and the rarified world of the Pro-speedway world is Fucking TINY!
Personally I'd start with the ACU web-site. Will tell you all the regs for all teh different sports they sanction, & Speedway is in there.
Class regs may help you identify the bike more accurately, but hen teh clubs directory, should guide you to the speedway clubs themselves, and thier own wes-sites are likely to point you to any speed-way riders forums or message boards.
If not, some lists of meets you can go to.
Ask on thier message boads, or better, turn up to a meet and ask silly questions, sure folk will be more than happy to help you out and give you some ideas of the sort of 'stuff' you need to know.
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[lollipop155]

Thank you all so much, i appreciate your time. Yes its a speedway bike for sure, all chrome and quite lovely! Its a case of always wanted one and got the opportunity, its really just a kind of "ornament" here, i doubt it will ever be ridden. I wanted to get something for christmas to do with it and thought a manual. Thanks again, Helen xx

[iooi]

Take a trip to a speedway meeting and have a walk in the paddock. Someone might know a source of some meterial to assist.
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