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A.S. RACING
ALFIE SWANEPOEL RACING OUT IN PRETORIA
- FOR ALL YOUR EXPERT BIKING NEEDS.
A.S. Racing based, out on the
western edge of Pretoria near
Mahem Raceway, are your go to
guys if you need some really high
end work done on your Superbike,
Supermotard, MX, Enduro,
Adventure, tourer or cruiser.
They are a workshop that
started out servicing the highly
competitive national and regional
racing community many, many
years ago and the racing guys
were that happy with their work
that they started bringing their
breakfast run bikes, etc to them
to work on as well.
Boss man and chief mechanic,
Alfie Swanepoel, is a very wellknown
and respected name in
the SA motorcycle industry and
a man driven by his passion
for motorcycles and winning
races. An ex national racer and
champion himself, Alfie really
understands that proper bike
setup, suspension setup and
peak engine performance and
reliability gives the racer the
edge to win a championship. His
knowledge and experience along
with his dedication to quality are
his main assets.
While we were visiting his
workshop, a customer wandered
in with a race tyre that had some
strange wear patterns on it and
asked Alfie what it might be. After
enquiring at which track and
what date, which was recently at
RSR, he went on to explain the
farmers have just ploughed their
lands around the track and being
fairly flat and wind swept plains,
the track has formed a very fine
layer of dust on the surface, which
would cause the ‘cold tearing’ on
the first couple of laps until the
tyres got nice and warm and
sticky, because the dust was
causing slight slippage on the cold
tyres. Alfie then offered a quick
and simple solutions, he could set
the rebound a bit faster for the
customer, which would solve the
problem.
You learn something new
everyday... and that kind of
knowledge and experience is what
you pay for.
Alfie is also an official Ohlins
suspension and parts dealer, and
stockist, with over R200k worth of
official Ohlins suspension tooling
and machinery. He regularly travels
to Europe to update his knowledge
and certifications at Ohlins HQ as
well as helping out on some of the
F.I.M race teams as their official
suspension mechanic - check out
the attached letters from some big
names in the racing fraternity.
An offshoot of his racing
experience is building super fast
turbo charged bikes, where he
bolts on great big turbo’s and uses
the Woolich software to upgrade
the ECU’s before tweaking them on
his dyno. He has also been known
to squeeze in big pistons, degreed
camshafts, high performance air
filters and exhausts, but all of this
would be for nothing if you cannot
put the power down on the tarmac
or track, or slow it down and keep
it stable in the twisty bits, or the
engine blows itself to pieces, so to
this end he is also a stockist of Pirelli
tyres, SBS brake pads and discs,
DID chains, Renthal sprockets, DNA
Air Filters, Air Age exhaust systems,
LiquiMoly lubricants and many,
many more top of the line bits and
bobs for all bikes.
So, if you need your bike
caressed by a Guru of the
motorcycling world get it down
to 1202 Malie Rd, Booysens,
Pretoria, out near Mahem
raceway, or give Alfie a call on
084 523 9229, or drop him
a mail on asracing123@gmail.
com.
Incidentally, he does have
some real beauties for sale
occasionally, like this 2009
Honda CBR600RR, World
Supersport spec race bike
ridden to the B.S.B. Supersport
championship win in 2009. It comes
with a bunch of tasty extra’s... a
list too long to mention. So, if you
would like the bragging rights of
owning a very special one-of-akind
work of art, give Alfie a call.
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