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BIKE TYRE WAREHOUSE: TYRE FITMENT CREW AT PIRELLI DIABLO ROSSO CORSA II LAUNCH. Three months before the launch of the Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa II, Pirelli BU Moto Motorcycle Testing Dept arrived from Italy with a technical team to assess Bike Tyre Warehouse’s technical capabilities; equipment & experience with regards to providing the technical support team on the ground for the event. As is the norm, these international entities regard our capabilities in Africa as limited to say the least. BTW passed the initial assessment & inspection with flying colours and the Pirelli contingent left with happier faces then when they arrived in SA. They then appointed Bike Tyre Warehouse as technical team, to fit the rubber and look after all 40 plus bikes on the launch. The brief was to put a technical team with the right equipment together to handle 40 sport bikes for a 10 day period in two locations. Bike Tyre warehouse has a mobile division that can set up a full totally self-contained fitment centre within 8 hours in any location. The real challenge was the time allocation given - change the tyres on 20 bikes, in 2 hours twice a day. To put it into perspective, that’s 80 wheels remove/refit; tyres remove - refit and balance all day. All at the Kyalami race track for journalists to test the new Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa II super sport tyres. Bear in mind that this was not a motorcycle test event; this was about the tyre itself, so every tyre had to be fitted perfectly and every wheel balanced to one hundredth of a gram. Air pressures to exact inflation specification for the particular bike. There could be no mistakes because the test journos would take any abnormal feel as coming from the tyre, so the fitment had to be 100% on every bike every time. Bike Tyre Warehouse also ran calibration & heat tests; where two of the Pirelli test pilots ran 1 lap only on a tyre; whilst two bikes were out on the track they had to change; fit and balance on spare wheels and so on throughout a two day period, its all thee did; hot laps and hot swops, which becomes a monotonous task but a very important one, so again 100% perfection with no margin for error. End result - never an issue during this 48 hour high stress cycle the team delivered constantly. Initially, there was some shoulder rubbing between the BTW Tech team and the Pirelli Motorcycle Test Dept team that was sharing the technical pit area; but after the first day, Pirelli realised that BTW was able to deliver, so everyone settled into their individual tasks and the job was done. This from Bike Tyre Warehouses Bruce: “Being the crew chief in the pit is a constant; there are no breaks or sit downs you stand centre pit and rotate because the work is happening all around you; it’s a flow process when it is happening so fast and fluid; bike in and on stands or in a sling and winched; wheels off ; all loose parts in the see through billet; wheel moved to tyre changer; old tyre off; new tyre on; correct size check; check valve; check pressure then off the machine to the balancer; chucks in; wheel rotated; 6-7 wheels rotating on the balancing deck; balancer checking; fitting weights, spin move to next wheel; come back double check and make a change if necessary; wheel off remove chuck and take wheel to wheel fitment tech; fit wheel make sure billet tray is clean; no loose bolts or clips so everything is on the bike that should be; all bolts torqued; bike off the stand; wheeled to final inspection point; tech rechecks inflation pressure and fuel, bike released to pit crew. The Crew Chief has to watch constantly and hop in anywhere along the line to stop; recheck or get something redone; it’s a line and under pressure mistakes can happen, so final responsibility rests with the crew chief. Yes we had some teething issues and yes, we had to redo some stuff but nothing was missed and every bike went out 100%. “ End result: The Bike Tyre Warehouse Technical Team was rated as up there with the best of the best globally by Pirelli Global Motorcycle Test Division Head Salvo Pennisi; a feather in the cap not just for this crew but for SA’s biking industry, showing the top guys in the world that down South we have the capability to produce the technical expertise to match those considered the best in the world of motorcycling. Nice One Boys! WSBK Spec Balancing Units 10 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE MAY <strong>2018</strong>
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