Britech

09/18/2026

Poetry Kevin I stole a ton of technology from my Ducati race bikes that helped my vintage bikes win tons of championships. To began with piston coatings in the early 90’s and progressed from there. Thank you 🙏 sharing

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This shot of a 2004 Honda CRF250R four-stroke 250cc motocross piston shows important details of the underside. We see that the two skirts and the two wristpin bosses are joined into a single box by the curved struts between them.
We can see that the wristpin bosses flow upward into the piston crown via smoothly radiused curved surfaces.
You can also see that the piston crown is thinner than the height of the piston ring belt.
You can also see that the designer no longer fears that piston crown heat, flowing into the wristpin bosses, will cook the lubricant out from between pin and bosses, and between pin and connecting-rod small-end bushing (if any).

One of the problems possible in these areas is wristpin scuffing – the local micro-welding and pick-up of metal from the pin bosses. In the case of Pankl rods in the race version of Ducati’s 916, a Packard-like drilling was run up the rod to carry lubricant to the small-end bearing and nearby pin bosses. Piston cooling oil jets have made this kind of complexity unnecessary.

You will notice that this piston has smooth, flowing organic shape. This is the kind of shape that best survives the intense fatigue environment of a piston, starting and stopping twice per revolution at literally thousands of Gs. No wonder race engines have a parts-change list, enumerating the high-stress parts and indicating the hours-of-service at which each must be changed.

The grace of natural forms, such as the way a tree trunk flares out to become the many roots, or the manner in which branches join the trunk, is the product of millions of years of testing. The forms that survive are beautiful.

Photo: Honda

09/15/2026

This is cool. Les Harris offered me leadership of his US Distributorship LF Harris Racing Spares. Although I was humbled by his offer I said no and launched Britech New England in 1988. Great memories and although the few chosen ones get the credit few like me did most of the work.

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09/03/2026

Updates coming soon. The bike is nearly done ✅ maybe next week excited

08/31/2026

08/24/2026

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06/29/2026

😂 Revenge of the Norton commando’s

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06/25/2026

Greg Nichols pre COVID19 at Thompson Speedway in Connecticut testing the new engine on Project Titan Team Britech’s Rickman Triumph 750cc Long rod. Featuring a long awaited MAP Billet aluminum NICKASIL cylinders.

(I’ll do a complete post about project Titan spanning 2 decades countless race victories including 5 back to back victories in BEARS at Daytona, once I can set up my network computers. All I have now is my phone.)

This video is all about the exhaust note you can hear it very well at the very beginning and the very end when the bike is moving away from the camera. Granted it’s very short periods nonetheless you can distinctly hear how precise the combustion is. It’s just an all day practice session but a lot of track time and learning a great deal. We were coming off a long hiatus after 18 straight seasons a much needed break. With renewed enthusiasm Greg made the tires work. It’s impossible to see in the video but he had her squirming on front brake coming into the chicane 

The bike needed a new engine after a long racing career 18 seasons with 14 straight Open GP championship 5 undefeated seasons many many other victories at Daytona MidOhio Barber. During which we had to wait for the technology to catch up to racing conditions for outdated machinery, right around 2015 we had several options on the shelf done we made some we bought from other companies.

Back then before 2012 you had to make practically all your own parts because nobody had much available off the shelf that was “Race” specific.
Key components like; light connecting rods, Nickasil cylinders, CR gears, etc etc. So, I focused on making my own stuff because I wanted to be successful give my team best chance at winning
The name “Titan” came from the Titanium Connecting Rods at the very heart ♥️ of the project we designed and made mostly in house.
The idea was born out of reality that stock crankshaft and rods won’t hold up racing because RACING breaks stock cranks and connecting rods. NRE Nourish made hardened billet steel crankshafts so the missing part imo was lightweight durable rods. The best choice of material afte much research was 6/AL-4 V titanium. The material is almost a miracle metal it’s 40% the weight of steel and stronger in important ways for the application. Aluminum has too short a lifespan steel everyone else has the same setup so the obvious advantage is Titanium. You couldn’t buy long rods like Triumph 650 so you had to make them yourself. What a blast 💥 it was learning to make them. Many thanks to my mom for all her help and advice and to President Titanium in Hanson Massachusetts for material their help and advice couldn’t have done it without you guys.

Rods and cranks need to be extra strong and light especially when the rest of the tuning set up puts out nearly twice the standard torque then with sticky tires and riders like Greg forget about it. It requires so much modification to produce power and last I can’t tell you in one post.

Anyhow look and listen 🤞 the link works this time

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06/17/2026

Walk down memory lane 👍👍

06/15/2026

I just came across this in my stuff TriumphDay in the 90’s best of times and worst of times for me personally!
I like everyone else eventually comes to realize and appreciate that life is about living that keeps us pretty busy and sometimes we are lucky enough to have taken pictures documenting these events in life. Nostalgia is a very important thing to humans, it’s like love or passion helps us to be better humans. TriumphDay was all about this the names on the trophies were reflective of our culture. Most attendees were genuinely happy for the winner, this is the one of those posts