Showing posts with label frank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frank. Show all posts
25 Mar 2015
21 Sept 2014
17 Sept 2014
Goodwood Revival 2014 - part 1
On our way to Goodwood we booked a night at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton.
The Royal Albion is located right across the Brighton pier. It looked great 60 years ago but today it's a place to avoid we found out. It has a variety of very intense strange smells. Stains in the carpet, blankets and sheets. The wall paper is falling of, holes in the walls, bad food, and a rather premium price. I would not recommend it to anyone..!
The Royal Albion is located right across the Brighton pier. It looked great 60 years ago but today it's a place to avoid we found out. It has a variety of very intense strange smells. Stains in the carpet, blankets and sheets. The wall paper is falling of, holes in the walls, bad food, and a rather premium price. I would not recommend it to anyone..!
17 Apr 2014
Frank Chatokhine excited for 2014 DTRA season.
After some good training time during the practice end of march, Frank is currently finishing to fine tune his Rickman Metisse Flattracker and will be ready for the first race on Leicester Speedway April 27th.
Since 2005 the UK has had its very own Flattrack Championships. The UK scene has been growing every year with more new bikes and rider starting to race. Racing in the UK is mainly on speedway tracks with some use of larger horse trotting tracks and TT courses. Races are normally contested between 12 riders in 3 lines of 4 riders. The duration of each race is 6 or 8 laps with finals of 12 or 15 laps. Unlike speedway the bikes have a rear brake and gears. Typically riders can expect a minimum of 3 heats, sometimes semi’s and a final per class they enter.
For his very first Dirt Track championship season Frank Chatokhine has prepared in his workshop a dedicated race bike to enter the new “Vintage Class”:
“Thanks to the help of my friends from Co-Built I did not lost time searching for the proper chassis set up and had been able to focus on rebuilding the 500 Triumph pre unit engine. The bike was previously used for motocross and clearly needed to be lowered with different suspension settings.
The practice event in Rye House confirmed I worked in the good direction and showed the small improvements I had to make on plenty of small details.
I can’t wait to enter the first round in Leicester Speedway and see how fast I can be. I’m so excited ! See you in UK at the races !”
Frank Chatokhine thanks all his sponsors who did help him to enter this year DTRA championship: Ateliers RUBY, Edwin Europe, Café Racer, Castrol, FTWco, Sideburn and Seurat 3.
Follow Frank for this race season on instagram and on the Atelier Chatokhine website
Great pics from Dimitri Coste
That's one killer Bike Frank! Good luck at Leicester and have a good DTRA season!
Since 2005 the UK has had its very own Flattrack Championships. The UK scene has been growing every year with more new bikes and rider starting to race. Racing in the UK is mainly on speedway tracks with some use of larger horse trotting tracks and TT courses. Races are normally contested between 12 riders in 3 lines of 4 riders. The duration of each race is 6 or 8 laps with finals of 12 or 15 laps. Unlike speedway the bikes have a rear brake and gears. Typically riders can expect a minimum of 3 heats, sometimes semi’s and a final per class they enter.
For his very first Dirt Track championship season Frank Chatokhine has prepared in his workshop a dedicated race bike to enter the new “Vintage Class”:
“Thanks to the help of my friends from Co-Built I did not lost time searching for the proper chassis set up and had been able to focus on rebuilding the 500 Triumph pre unit engine. The bike was previously used for motocross and clearly needed to be lowered with different suspension settings.
The practice event in Rye House confirmed I worked in the good direction and showed the small improvements I had to make on plenty of small details.
I can’t wait to enter the first round in Leicester Speedway and see how fast I can be. I’m so excited ! See you in UK at the races !”
Frank Chatokhine thanks all his sponsors who did help him to enter this year DTRA championship: Ateliers RUBY, Edwin Europe, Café Racer, Castrol, FTWco, Sideburn and Seurat 3.
Follow Frank for this race season on instagram and on the Atelier Chatokhine website
Great pics from Dimitri Coste
That's one killer Bike Frank! Good luck at Leicester and have a good DTRA season!
19 Mar 2014
Richard and Lex from LeftHandCycles build this 1978 BMW R80-7 Scrambler for Frank.
Great pictures dudes!
Specifications :
Frame : glossy black powdercoat
Tyres : Dunlop Trailmax
Handlebar: BSA (USA)/Beston
Seat : LHC custom made
Mufflers : megaton
electric : LHC custom made
Check the lefthandcycles.blogspot.nl for more
Great pictures dudes!
Specifications :
Frame : glossy black powdercoat
Tyres : Dunlop Trailmax
Handlebar: BSA (USA)/Beston
Seat : LHC custom made
Mufflers : megaton
electric : LHC custom made
Check the lefthandcycles.blogspot.nl for more
20 Jun 2013
Trip to Wheels and Waves - Teusday - Atelier Chatokhine
After my first French breakfast this year Laurence gave me the address of her brother and dad's garage. A few miles from Chartres there is a very nice motorcycle workshop called Atelier Chatokhine. Father and son Chatokhine run the shop, both owners and racers of classic English motorcycles. They had an impressive collection of English bikes on display. Great way to start the day! Thanks Laurence for the tip
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