This Fireblade is FAST! On Track shake down and finishing touches for Franco's Honda Superstock Bike

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The Fireblade is ready for the track so Dave heads to Cadwell Park for a cold start to the year. Is the Fireblade as fast as he hopes? Will everything work?
When then track action stops it's back to the workshop to fit the Motec Datalogger and get ready for Spain
Obsession Engineering and Marvel HCL Motorsport are building a Superstock Fireblade for our racing protege Franco Bourne.
If you'd like to be involved in the journey with us, to bring on racing's next star rider, please email team boss Matt at
matt@marvelhcl.co.uk
Or check out the Obsession Engineering pages
obsessionengineering.co.uk/
Big thanks to Paul at TrackSnapz for the thumbnail photo

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@thebones Год назад

That's a lot of clever thinking going on there Dave, you'll be exhausted for the rest of the season now. Crack on though , another great episode.

@stephenbeamis1151 Год назад

Loving all the insight you are showing to make the bike into a racer when you see the bikes in the paddock you can't appreciate the hours that have gone into converting it. Sounds awesome on track 😊

@bigal5895 Год назад

Very enjoyable - great insight into the prep required to compete in BSB stock thou . The devil is in the detail..

@bigjam8429 Год назад

A lot of money in this bike well done davey

@Bow-to-the-absurd Год назад

My big take-away from this build is that new bikes are ridiculously complicated.

@gerrycollins2335 Год назад

Oldie alert! Like me you are nostalgic for the pre-electronics era. And like me you use a full stop at the end of a sentence.

@Bow-to-the-absurd Год назад

@@gerrycollins2335 my last new bike was 2005 zx6r. Those early electronics sucked, only now are they delivering the promise of elevated, seamless control.

@barry5138 Год назад

Cars nowadays are designed to be unserviceable or maintained by the owner

@philipbrown2514 Год назад

True that

@DeathsStalkerRVT Год назад

Great video I always enjoy your stuff and I see Lee Johnston gave your a plug in his video today

@missydee6085 Год назад

Lee never plugs anyone for nothing. He'll be after summat! 😄

@stevesanelli90 Год назад

Hey Dave, what an incredible masterpiece of development & ingenuity. Hopefully it all goes well in Spain for rider, bike & your expertise! So looking forward to this next chapter & challenge 🤙

@cbrrob1670 Год назад

This video has already made my Sunday

@stewartgunter9878 Год назад

We had the same pot issue on our 23 R1 Ktech DDS shock, we made a clamp that went around the ride height nut ride height nut

@karlvanboxel561 Год назад

Top notch work as usual beast of a bike

@user-nt9nd7xm5f Год назад

Love the technical insight, quite some engineering. All the very best for the season 🏍💨✊

@Final_Boss_Racing Год назад

Those Hel brake lines are looking good!!

@stevec-b6214 Год назад

Great work! attention to detail is outstanding.

@mattmid7012 Год назад

A job well done Dave! Amazing how much had to be done. I'm no mechanic but it seems to me the stock road bike has now essentially been turned into Trigger's Broom Superstock race bike. Now Franco just has to keep it on the tarmac to keep your workload down! Looking forward to seeing how he gets on this season.

@Oilyhands749 Год назад

Best of luck in Spain , seeing all this it really does give a great insight 👍

@cecilwilson5442 Год назад

Great video thanks it's going to be a great year for the Honda,, with so much R&D put. Into the fireblade now it's paying for the focus on the track,,be a great season coming ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ from northern Ireland 😁

@troywee4774 Год назад

very nice - lots of faff but worth it in the end! cheers.

@paulhenry1387 Год назад

Fantastic job, as ever Dave. Great to see the tests in Spain went well. Will be down to watch official test at Donington & can't wait for Silverstone opener. Great team, great young rider.

@obsession_engineering Год назад

Pop in and say hi at Donington

@Errol.C-nz Год назад

@@obsession_engineering I thought "engineers" were supposed to be creative.. your shock sensor..fit a double nut to the shock eye bolt to extend out.. make an extension tube/sleeve to fit the end of the sensor rod end to bot direct to the double nut.. elegent & simple !

@miguelgoverno Год назад

Great bikes, loved mine to bits but too crazy for knockhill so swapped for RS660 🏁🏁

@Shinysideup Год назад

Interesting stuff as usual Dave, looking forward to seeing Franco doing the business STK class.

@richardhorton25 Год назад

rear shock potentiometer - why not make a circular plate to fit under the spring with a tab to take the lower potentiometer mounting ? - only measuring the actual movement of the damper rod then and mostly out of the way of the ride height adjuster

@obsession_engineering Год назад

I did look at that, my concern was the very slight spring rotation when it compresses/extends could move the pot. And it'd change the preload so would have to move the preload adjusters too

@lukesavage1801 Год назад

Awesome video 👍

@jhstony Год назад

Well done Dave another great video

@joshuaman1126 Год назад

Cool look inside all the telemetry mounting

@hazlo1836 Год назад

Great vid!

@lewissabin3884 Год назад

Brilliant video’s so looking forward to watching next one

@deanmsimpson Год назад

That was really interesting. Things look very delicate 🙈 Let's hope Franco doesn't crash the bike much ☺️

@gerrycollins2335 Год назад

I hate to think of all that complexity sliding along in a gravel trap.

@stephenbooty3773 Год назад

Great vid. Loving this series. Anything on the Tuono yet? 😂

@obsession_engineering Год назад

Not much, but I will get to it eventually 🙄

@kevinjewison4951 Год назад

Good luck for Spain Dave great insight into developing the blade there is a lot of thought goes into it but your doing a fantastic job yeaa. Motorbikes are great 👍

@mickymondo7463 Год назад

Whenever I have had to plug and move a threaded hole like that, I always install a Timesert into the Aluminium, I have found it to be much more secure, especially if the bolts will be removed and refitted at any point, and on something as important as brakes I prefer a belt and braces approach

@TheOriginalCoda Год назад

Dave, daft question, could you not affix the pot between the swingarm and seat rail? Is it swingarm travel one is interested in or purely the shock length? I'm sure you can easily figure this out if you take a 'Big cuppa tea and a Slice of Swiss Roll break' 😀

@obsession_engineering Год назад

Really wants to be the shock travel as that's the measurement needed to know where in the stroke the shock is, topped out, bump stop etc. With swing arm position you'd need calculate the shock movement still and that'd require exact linkage ratio and position on the swing arm would need to be very specific

@TheOriginalCoda Год назад

@@obsession_engineering Thanks for the explanation. One learns something every day 🙂

@robincoulter5228 Год назад

You shot past that rider on the approach to the first corner.

@sharvey1192 Год назад

Couldn’t you have drilled and thread the bottom shock bolt to mount your pot?? Anyway keep it up nearly there.

@obsession_engineering Год назад

I did look at that, but it needed an even more elaborate bracket to miss the linkage

@LasseJOugaard Год назад

Is the bracketry on the damper necessary? Couldn't you get away with drilling and tapping a tiny hole in the end of the bolt for the linkage? Even with the ballsocket on the end, the bolt would still fit through the clevis. You just need to pop the potentiometer off, when you want to remove the damper. Anyway, interesting to follow along with the process. Any racing machine is so complicated nowadays. Imagine running one of the modern hybrid racecars! 😬

@obsession_engineering Год назад

I did look at mounting on the shock bolts but the bracket would have been especially elobrate!!

@davidpierce7318 Год назад

Love cadwell but how cold was it

@obsession_engineering Год назад

Actually surprisingly good weather, considering the time of year

@grachoderunwiderstehlichen Год назад

so much wight😊

@theeezypeezy2870 Год назад

Could you point me in the direction of a company who makes brakes lines with quick disconnects? TY

@obsession_engineering Год назад

I've never used dry break lines but hel list them www.helperformance.com/staubli-quick-release-dry-break-coupling-3mm-flow-diameter-3-jic-4-jic-and-m10

@am3197 Год назад

Dave any reason why this over a s1000rr or R1? Looking at a trackday/club racing bike with very few mods budget £15k

@obsession_engineering Год назад

It's faster and easier to set up than either the r1 or bmw. Simples! Although you've no chance of building one for £15k. For that budget I'd chase a good spec gen 3 bmw or r1

@peterlandberg Год назад

Why not tap the shocks lower mountingbolt for the sensor?

@obsession_engineering Год назад

I looked at that but it would have needed an even more elaborate bracket

@peterlandberg Год назад

@@obsession_engineering ah ok! Hope it works :)

@jeffo_511 Год назад

Hey. So the 2022 hrc ecu has some diff setting and values over the hrc 20/21 version. But they haven’t update the hrc data setting software. So I’m lost on how to set up the ecu data settings. I’m in the USA, club racer. Please please any help would be appreciated. 🙏🙏

@obsession_engineering Год назад

There's an update supplement for the manual. If you drop me a message to davidhewsonlimited@hotmail.co.uk I'll email it over

@jeffo_511 Год назад

@@obsession_engineering omg. Thank you so much!! 🙏🙏 emailing now

@Final_Boss_Racing Год назад

I saw you had a cameo on Lee Johnston vid today how many teams do you work with bro😂

@obsession_engineering Год назад

I might have to watch that, best content he'll get 😂

@Final_Boss_Racing Год назад

@@obsession_engineering 😂 very true!! You were wearing a white shirt and you were sitting at a table on your laptop and he told you to wave to the fans!!

@steveball2307 Год назад

Oh for the days when it was a magneto, some Bowden cables and a stopwatch! 😂

@franklinwilkerson2061 Год назад

And of course 2t.

@Tyrekickingwetdreamer Год назад

Why not a scooter brake

@obsession_engineering Год назад

Franco thought the thumb would be better, as you can keep a normal grip of the bar and still use it, oh and with the scooter brake it's not uncommon for riders to over use them, as they're so easy to just keep pulling.

@franklinwilkerson2061 Год назад

I Just want the potentiometer on my front fork cuz it looks cool. The data itself is just gobbleygook to me .