Steve’s Suzuki wins BGBT
Added on Saturday, November 27th, 2010 by Carole Nash Editor | No Comments
Steve’s Suzuki wins BGBT
After six months deliberation, judging by an expert celebrity panel and the casting of thousands of votes the winner of Britain’s Got Biking Talent with Carole Nash has been revealed at the UK’s biggest bike show.
Steve Stone, of Didcot, Oxfordshire, was presented with the award at the Carole Nash Motorcycle Live show by bike-mad Red Dwarf actor Danny John-Jules and Carole Nash’s marketing manager Dawn Holmes. The presentation was an opening highlight of the UK’s biggest bike show which threw open its doors at Birmingham’s NEC yesterday (Saturday 27 November).
Steve’s stunning Suzuki GSX-R1000 K8 took first prize in a hard fought competition which attracted hundreds of entries from across the biking spectrum. Steve took the title after his magnificent race replica won the hearts of the British biking public. They voted on a shortlist of entries determined by a celebrity judging panel which included Red Dwarf actor John-Jules, Long Road Nowhere star Charley Boorman and internationally renowned motorcycle customiser, Jon Quantrell
Painted in the colours of the JSB 1000 Yoshimura 2006 British Superbike team the bike is road legal but features a full racing specification, including Yoshimura & Crescent tuning parts, Marchesini wheels and a titanium exhaust.
Congratulations were also due to a team of students from Lincolnshire’s Lady Jane Franklin special school. Their rare and brilliantly restored Malaguti CR50 Arrow took second place and was fitting reward for six months of teenage graft.
In third place came Welsh wheel wizard John Pellew’s Super Cafe Racer. The product of John’s Penarth-based Taimoshan Cycle works, the cleverly designed machine combines the retro and the modern by harnessing a reproduction Norton Featherbed frame with a fuel-injected Aprilia RSV 1000 engine.
Having won a VIP trip to a European Moto GP race of his choice courtesy of Pole Position Travel Steve Stone said: ”I’m ecstatic. I never expected to win, I was surprised when I got entered!” He explained that the one-off bike took over a year to build and cost him around £50,000. “The hardest part was refining the engine to make it useful on the UK road because it’s so powerful, 206 brake horsepower.
Nik Wallis, who tutored the student team, was equally delighted: ”We considered that we’d ‘won’ when we got through to the final,” he said. “But looking at the line up of stunning bikes, and how much money has been spent on some of them, for a £200 bike built by a group of schoolchildren at a special school to do this is absolutely amazing.”
Nik collected a Battlefield Tour for two – or £500 off a fly-ride package – with prize sponsor, MCi Tours.
Adrenaline-fuelled fun awaits John Pellow who won a heart-pumping track day at a Club MSV UK circuit. Thrilled by his podium position, John, who only recently set up Taimoshan Cycle Works in Penarth said: “I’m very, very happy. It’s public affirmation that I’m building nicely designed bikes.” John, who started riding 15 years ago in his native Australia, added that the Super Cafe Racer took a year to create, with around three months alone spent on the fuel injection system.
As well as their prizes the winners will enjoy seeing their bikes admired on a special stand at the Motorcycle Live show, along with the nine other finalists. All twelve bikes have also been professionally photographed and in the Carole Nash 2010 calendar which is distributed free to over 100,000 bikers.
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