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Buy any bike on PCP (Personal Contract Purchase) and recieve a either a free Ipad 2, 40 inch TV or Sony Vaio laptop.

Wether big or small, at the shop or at home, we would like pictures of your bike to put on our website and social networking pages.

Alf´s Motorcycles Racing

Alf, is the driving force behind our respected race teams and prepares with the help of dedicated pit crew mates, our Championship winning machines for the Endurance 1000, Manx GP and Le Mans racing.

Recently we have been racing the Kawasaki ZX-10R 2011 in full Super Production specification and a Z1R 1978 Classic Superbike (shown above), fully upgraded to meet todays challenging race demands. Team Alf´s Z1R Kawasaki Team with Mick Godfrey as the rider achieved 3rd Podium at the MANX GP 2011. Mick is our sales director who has over 20 years of endurance racing experience and has raced all around the world.

Over the years he has prepared our own 944SS (Sound of Thunder championship winning machine), 748R, 916SP, 996. Starting in the early days within the UK KRC endurance Championship from 1997 through to the present day. Most recently he competed in and won the Hottrax endurance championship.

To aid the race preparation Alf has a bespoke Dyno in addition to his mastery of spanner wielding, tuning and servicing skills.

CLASSIC MANX GP 2011

Team Alf´s Kawasaki & our very Rider Mick Godfrey our very own won 3rd place at the 2011 Isle of Man MANX GP!

After weeks of preparing the Kawasaki 1978 Z1R for the 2011 IOM Manx GP race, finally the day came when Alf, Cliff and Burn rose early for the journey up to Heysham and across the North Sea to the Isle of Man.

Mick went out on the first Practice of the Classic Superbike and was recorded as average speed of 97.85 mph, with a lap time of 23 mins 08.12 sec. The Bike gearing needed drastic attention and fractured wire was causing a misfire. The suspension felt hard and needed adjustment, so plenty to do and improve on! The next two days were spent re-building and improving the Z1R, where lubrication issues had arisen causing various complications with the cam shaft, 2 valves being bent, 2 valve guides broken, all due to a faulty oil pressure switch – 30 years what do you expect!Having now re-built the engine twice and still not in a position to get a practice session in, time was running out on practice lap times to qualify with the minimum 5 laps needed to complete in the main MANX GP race.

Thankfully a ‘Road Angel’ in the form of Roger Winfield approached Team Alf’s and offered them the use of his Suzuki XR69, to get both practice sessions finished and provided them with the qualifying option; there is a silver lining to everything – “THANK YOU ROGER” As a direct result of using the XR69, Mick qualified in 10th position with a course lap time of average speed of 101.43 – Brilliant in the WET!! With lots of Blood, Sweat, Tears and the 3^rd new engine, the Race day had materialised and we were there in 6th position start, adrenaline running through the veins of Mick, expectation of the crew that the ‘new replica Z1000 was ready for the challenge’

With the riders in most cases achieving 109 mph around the course marking points, Buckley was reported retired at Kerrowmoar on the last lap with mechanical failure, leaving Faquhar to take the chequered flag in 1:19:49:56 (113.437mph) Behind him there was a battle emerging for the runner up slot between John Barton and Mick Godfrey on the 1050 cc Kawasaki with the pair swapping places on the last lap before Barton came home in second 1:24.31.47 (107.131mph), five seconds ahead of third placed man Godfrey 1:24:36.65 (107.022mph)

Fnatastic result makes all the hard work worthwhile!