Gordon Crawford will become the latest rider to join the national Top Bike championship when he makes his competition debut at Hidden Valley Drag Strip on August 16 and 17 as part of the ANDRA Drag Racing Series.
Crawford will join national championship leader Chris Porter and an expected return from national champion Chris Matheson alongside tough six second riders Terry Burnett and Greg Durack.
“I’ve heard some good things about Darwin and everyone is very enthusiastic up there,” he said.
Crawford is more than just one rider at the event, being responsible for transporting many vehicles up there including Burnett and Durack’s motorcycles, plus Rob Pilkington’s Top Alcohol Funny Car and the Modified Bikes of Scott Wilson and Brett Allen.
But reaching the starting line for his own first championship round on his nitro-fuelled Harley has not come easily for the moving business operator, having travelled all the way from his native Perth to Brisbane for June’s Fuchs Winternationals only to not even make one qualifying pass when a mechanical breakage occurred in a warm up.
“A spline shaft that attaches to the end of the crank shaft stripped and it’s something that is unusual to break,” Crawford explained, “I had enough spares to fix the bike twice over but I had none of those kind of spares because I never thought it was going to be a problem.
“We’ve since rebuilt the motor and it sounds really good and really crisp. We did some balancing things in the engine
via Hidden Valley Drag Strip July 30, 2013 at 01:59PM
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