Sponsored riders
I don't have much to give. When I get the chance though, I live for giving to riders that I see are willing to experiment. Here are some riders that have taken a chance and enjoyed the fruits of my labor.
Mark Morrow
Mark has been absolutely instrumental in pipe R&D. Mark raced over 140 times in a single year and absolutely pounded those pipes and his bikes. If there was a weakness, Mark found it. the feedback he provided led me to completely remake the mounts on all pipes and to start over on silencers.
Mark won almost every race he entered last year. in 2018 he was #1 plate in three AHRMA classes, WERA champion and AMA champion in several other classes. It's hard to keep up with all he does.
Mark is now doing new product development for me as well as teaching the AHRMA road race school. keep your eye out for the new pipes.
Jack Parker
When they say "Don't judge a book by its cover" they're talking about Jack Parker. Gifted photographer, fabricator and purveyor of fine things, when you look at Jack you don't expect one man can also be fast as lightning...
7 time national champion in 200 and 250GP and uncountable regional championships.
Jack was the recipient of my first pipe for a real, modern GP bike. The bar for RS125 pipes is very high, and it was a big step for me to make one and have a talented rider like Jack test it for me.
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I hope to soon have a new DT1 pipe for him and a complete CT1 engine and pipe for him to use.
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Jack also recently purchased a Bultaco Astro flat track bike. We hope to get him out Riding in circles soon as well.
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Chris Spargo
2015 I was just a kid that had won a motorcycle in a raffle. I asked Chris about racing it and he told me what a shitty idea that was and how disastrous it would be. He then sent me a link to a video of him racing his RD400 at Barber and I was trapped.
Racing since the year I was born, Chris is one of the most talented and accomplished AHRMA road racers in recent memory. The only man that can go 8 months without racing, hot on his RD and win a F750 race using just muscle memory. The only thing stopping him is himself...
Waving his fingers and toes over the controls, Chris has won 3 national championships and again uncountable regional and individual races. It's a joke, that if Spargo makes it to the starting line and can race without running out of fuel hes likely to win.
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Arguably one of the best riders I know, he's also one of the only guys keeping my head small by constantly dissecting everything I do.
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I'm fortunate to only live a few miles from him. In 2020 I'll hopefully have 4 complete sets of pipes for Chris. 3 sets for his 1990 TZ250 and a brand new set for his experimental YCS1 250GP bike.
Sakis Vasilopoulous
Sakis the "Super Greek" is the only guy on this list that I can really relate to. Sakis is in the motorcycle business and is also self employed. He makes the best fiberglass products on earth. Every single piece of fiberglass you see above and below was hand made by him.
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I could write a book about him. Born in Greece, he cut his teeth racing true period GP bikes in the 125 and 250 class. After winning several national championships he moved to America and continued to win.
Sakis Has fallen victim to several mechanical failures in the last year. If it kills me I'm going to build him an engine, time the ignition and weld it in place so he can't mess with it and then put it in his chassis....
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Sakis can be hard to get a hold of, but at 70 he's still making the finest fiberlgass on Earth. you can get a hold of him on facebook, or through me. He makes glass for almost every motorcycle I've seen on the racetrack and he can make new molds from scratch.
Jonas Stein
The youngest person on this list (can you tell) Jonas is hungry for more HP and eager to do R&D. Jonas bought his MT125R and bought a Retrodyne pipe before he even rode it. He immediately went out and won several F125 races in 2019. I've got him lined up for two experimental pipes, updated porting and a freshly cut head in 2020. F125 isn't going to know what hit it.
Besides racing, Jonas owns a pizza shop in Nashville. If you get a chance swing by Bella Nashville Pizzeria for a slice of pie. I think he's a DJ and a rock star too but I can't keep up...
Erik Moldenhauer
From out of nowhere Erik came and reshaped local flat track. When I first met him he was riding a POS XS400 yamaha that couldn't get out of it's own way. I figured I'd never see him again.
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Quickly he became the local fast guy and one of favorite guys to sponsor. Just like me, saving a buck where he can by making everything but the pistons in my bike from scratch.
On his SR500 yamaha he has time and time again stomped XR600s and big valve rotaxes, winning the last Mama Tried and Battle of the Twins indoor races and claiming the Minnesota #1 plate in singles.
We're now forging a head on a Trackmaster framed XS650.
Clifford Godard5
Cliff Was the first person who didn't know me that bought a pipe. It was the most amount of money I'd ever made on any one job ($350) and the first person to run his bike on a dyno and give information back to me.
Since then he's put on one of my ignitions and won several races, beating our nemesis who rides a 6 year newer YZ250...
Cliff is soon to be the recipient of my wildest experiment between pipe and cylinder. It's the culmination of research by Harry Barlow, Carl Anderson and now myself in the relationship between exhaust port and pipe. I look forward to giving him a pipe, in turn for the feedback I could never get by riding the bike myself.
Cliff also has a dog named Rotax. He named the dog before he even owned a Rotax race bike. Amazing.
