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Presentation: Project Bike Starbridge Racer

A lot helps a lot

Eleven men from Hamburg and one idea: build a fabulous motorcycle and then auction it off for a good cause. In favor of the children’s hospice Sternenbrucke e. V., where terminally ill children are accompanied on their way out of life. With this topic, it couldn’t be just any motorcycle, but one that wins hearts. And in the end a race too.

A.ndreas Mecke from Hamburg is a star mechanic and gifted tuner. Friends claim it is his calling to help motorcycles that are sick or crippled. A man who lives for screwing: lends his hands to his employer Triumph Hamburg Nord during the day and just carries on after work. Always on. Maybe because his inner drive is so strong. Maybe because screws make him damn happy. And since he is so happy, he wanted to help others with his work who are less fortunate in life.

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Project bike starbridge racer

Presentation: Project Bike Starbridge Racer
A lot helps a lot

Bonneville T100, year of construction 2008, with slight accident damage. Support poured in from all over Germany: sometimes ten euros, sometimes 1000 euros, sometimes a part, sometimes a production – many wanted to help. But not only forum members became active, some companies also took part spontaneously.

Towards the end of 2013, the supervised screwdriving starts under Andreas Mecke’s guidance. Everything only after work, purely private, no marketing campaign or the like. With every move the screwdriver crew had only one goal in mind: let’s do it even better, even finer, even more beautiful than everyone else – simply perfect, so that we can raise as much money as possible for the Sternenbrucke. The Starbridge Racer was supposed to be the fastest and best twin that could be built without (senselessly expensive) displacement.

Biggest performance is still ahead

It has already become the best: At the Tridays in Austria, the Starbridge racer took first place in the custom contest. A glorious success. And a legitimate one. Because the racer can certainly be seen. But is it also the fastest? For almost 100 hp without increasing the displacement, you have to work hard with the air-cooled twin. And that’s what the Hamburg team did: At the inlet and outlet, an inlet camshaft from a 790 cm³ Bonneville was installed, the valves were chosen two millimeters larger, pinched edges removed and polished. The compression was increased to 10: 1, the outlet smoothed and polished, the throttle valve diameter increased to 39 millimeters, open aluminum intake trumpets installed. The mapping was programmed in-house, centrifugal masses were reduced, and ultimately the heart of the tuning came: the realization, matured over many, many night shifts and weekends, that the intake port of this Triumph engine first had to be poured in and then rebuilt in a different form to mill and smooth.

The team took care of the chassis with the same meticulousness: At the rear, dampers specially produced by YSS iron everything smooth. In the front, a shortened upside-down fork from a Tiger 1050 wins the fight against the misconduct of the road construction authority. “I had the thing apart eight times until the set-up was perfect,” remembers Andreas Mecke. In this case, perfect means: shortened by 69 millimeters, with shortened fork springs and spacer sleeves as well as adapted shim packages plus 20 oil with an exact fill level. A 320-millimeter Beringer brake disc with a Tokico four-piston brake caliper and Lucas racing pads are screwed onto it.

The Starbridge racer has yet to make his biggest appearance: What the bullet can really do will be shown during the sprint over the eighth mile on September 6 at the Glemseck 101 meeting. Hopefully the racer with pilot Yannik Schenk will end up at the very front there. Hopefully. Because: winners are more popular. And immediately after the race, the Ebay auction will start on September 6th, so that the Starbridge racer will not only delight eleven enthusiasts who have become good friends, but can also achieve its real goal: to beautify children the last days of their short lives.

The donation goal: Sternbrucke e.V.

The children’s hospice Sternenbrucke e. V. is an institution for the accommodation and care of children, adolescents and young adults who, due to the particular severity of their illness, are in great need of care and have no hope of recovery and in some cases only have a short life expectancy. The care and support of the sick person and their family costs an average of 892 euros per day. The health and long-term care insurance funds only cover 50 percent of this. Most of the families affected cannot cover the costs from their own resources. However, the children’s hospice wants to be open to all those affected – regardless of their financial situation – and is therefore dependent on donations. The Hamburg institution’s annual donation requirement is currently 1.75 million euros.

For all those who don’t think they have a chance at the auction, but have just fetched the donation trousers fresh from the cleaning: donation account and further information on the Internet at
www.sternenbruecke.de

Technical data of the Triumph Bonneville Starbridge Racer

engine
Air-cooled four-stroke two-cylinder engine, lightened flywheel, displacement: 865 cm³, power: 95 PS, torque 97 Nm, compression 10: 1, newly milled inlet duct, modified camshafts, larger valves, electronic fuel injection, throttle valve diameter 39 mm, open funnel, Five-speed gearbox with automatic transmission.

landing gear
Tubular steel loop frame shortened and reinforced. Changed upside-down fork from the Tiger 1050, YSS shock absorber (custom-made), wheels: front Thruxton aluminum spoked wheel with lightened hub, rear rim 4.25 x 17, front tires 110/80 ZR 18, rear 150/70 ZR 17 with Pirelli Angel GT, Beringer disc brake, Ø 320 mm, Tokico four-piston caliper front, rear series, tank capacity 16 liters, weight 204 kilos.

miscellaneous
Tarozzi footrest system, two-in-one exhaust from ZARD, secondary ratio 45/18, Motogadget speedometer, LSL stub, self-made instrument panel, hand-polished Rizoma levers, modified fork bridge, brake / rear light integrated in the frame, self-made bench with carbon base.

Price: The motorcycle will be auctioned on Ebay from September 6, 2014. If you want to read the structure of the Starbridge Racer in detail: www.thruxtonforumsbike.blogspot.de
Cafe Racer meeting and race Glemseck 101: www.glemseck101.de

No help without help

In addition to Andreas Mecke and the Thruxton Forum members Thomas Wagner, Heiko Waschkau, Andreas Nusseck, Bernd Krause, Stefan Ziegler, Jurgen Gehr, Thomas Hartkopf, Rene Sambale, Olaf Zuther and Michael Beyer, a number of companies also supported the project: Classicbike free of charge and unbureaucratically Raisch donated instruments, valves and also a large cash sum, the Schweinfest company took on the processing of the head and the injection system free of charge, the Kinzlin saddlery contributed the handmade bench, Michael Schonen alias Lackmuss took on the design of the paint set, the Lippert paint shop brought it Frame in color. The exhaust system, 500 sausages and a donation are from one of the screwdrivers who prefers to act as a silent donor. Nevertheless, of course, nothing would have happened if Triumph Hamburg had not provided all other parts at the purchase price and of course the premises. And in the end they also donated their best man.

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