Better late than never Above is a video of the lecture I gave last year regarding using technology to speed up the PZ490 design and build processes. This is maybe… Read More »Using Relevant Technology to get to the answer quicker – TANDM Seminar given by Koos Zietsman
To allow Piet to test and develop the external starter for PZ500, we decided to design, manufacture and build a simplified “square” engine for him. Here is the current CAD… Read More »Square Engine for PZ500 starter testing
We’ve achieved everything that could reasonably be expected with PZ490 and Riempies’s great performance at the Roof put the proverbial cherry on the top! Now it’s time to throw all… Read More »PZ490 is dead, long live PZ500!
Below is a side view of our first bike layout concept dating back to April, the idea was to reduce frontal are for best possible top speed. Mmmmm, lots of… Read More »Designing, building and optimising the PZ500 frame
Today I am delivering a presentation on the development of our two bikes at the TANDM Community Connect seminar ((TCC23) at the University of Pretoria. TANDM supplies measuring equipment and… Read More »Presentation at TANDM Community Connect at the University of Pretoria.
Jigging PZ500 to build the frame has started in earnest at JIP Consulting in Boksburg, exciting times! Here you can see how useful the 3D printed plastic parts are.
Highlighted in yellow are the classes in which the Bonneville bike will run: And here highlighted in yellow are the records to beat:
Clive Kennerly offered to donate a swingarm… Thanks Clive, nice piece of kit and nice gesture! The rear damper has already been designed by Bilstein to suit our existing swingarm… Read More »Swingarm
Work on the PZ500 for Bonneville 2024 is now my primary goal. Riempies’s PZ490 for the Roof is running although we still have tuning issues to deal with but working… Read More »Work on the PZ500
And while we’re on a roll, I’m excited to announce that Johan Lazarus at Jip Consulting became our newest partner today offering to help us build the PZ500 frame at… Read More »New Partner
