Νέα - News | Paranoid Racing Press Release.
29.04.04 

 

Paranoid Racing is proud to anounce the addition of Blackstone Tek as a product sponsor in the team's effort in constructing and succesfully campaigning a Top Fuel radial triple dragbike through the supply of a specially reinforced state of the art carbon fibre front wheel. Blackstone Tek is the leader in CF wheel technology and a supplier to many Superbike and Moto GP wheels with a line of products that includes applications for almost all contemporary sportbikes and surpasses current strength and fatigue requirements for street use as set by various countries safety institutions.

Paranoid Racing's main sponsors, White Line Cycles will be distributing the complete product line of Blackstone Tek to the Greek market through their existing and new down town Athens location. The teams objective in using an ultra light front wheel in an otherwise heavy setup is to minimise the inertia forces that are responsible for the tendency of TF bikes to wobble during braking and to aid the tire in getting up to speed after it touches down at half to three quarters track with more than 280 miles per hour.

The importance of an ultra strong and light state of the art front wheel is somehow neglected in the ranks of dragbikes and especially in the Top Fuel class where the choices in 17 inch wheels that can carry big enough tires for the brake effort needed are very limited and heavy. Blackstone Tech wheels are combining exceptional strength and durability with corossion resistance and much greater fatigue life compared to aluminum alloy and magnesium wheels. They feature a monoblock construction with the greatest weight savings in the rim are where it makes the most difference. With street wheels as light as 2.1 kg and race wheels as light as 1.7 kg they are able to give a great advantage in acceleration and cornering ability to any bike and make all dragbikes go faster and brake safer.

During our contacts with Blackstone Tek we have met with some very knowledgeable and friendly people in all positions from technical advice to sales marketing answering all our questions and presenting a backround of many years of experience in motorcycle racing.

You can have a look at BST's product line and technical information at their excellent website www.blackstonetek.com
If you need to ask us anything regarding possible applications for your bike or just to find out how we're progressing drop us a mail at zman@greekracer.net or yla@greekracer.net . We will be happy to answer all your questions.


Panagiotis Zarifopoulos & Yla Galani
Paranoid Racing/White Line cycles, Athens-Hellas
Phone +306947810408

 

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