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Archive for August, 2009

Article in Motorcycle News.

Published 24/08/2009 @ 13:49 by David Sánchez

Two weeks ago English magazine Motorcycle News published an article about the Morlaco project, which also talks a little bit about Bottpower and our Moto2 project.

Regarding the article, I am very satisfied about the final resoult, I think it expresses very well the Bottpower spirit (a garage project, a bunch of friends).

In the article they mention something which is a very important step for me, it is that I quit from my job as mechanical engineer in Sedecal, a Spanish company which develops X-ray medical systems (I had been working there for 7.5 years). So from now on I will have more time for Bottpower and our projects.. the Morlaco, the Moto2 and some more interesting stuff that is looming over the horizon…  :)

Here you can download the article in pdf format.


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First 3D scanning job.

Published 02/08/2009 @ 15:40 by David Sánchez

You already know that we have a technological partner called Incomet that will work with us making 3D scanning jobs. We signed the contract less than one month ago and we already have here the first result of this collaboration. I want to thank them for the quality and the speed of their work.


As a first task we thought about scanning a Kawasaki ZX6 chassis. In this way we can compare our own designed chassis with the scanned one, which can be used as a reference in order to try to achieve a more compact and ergonomic design.

Of course if we find it interesting we can also use it to obtain geometry data of the Kawa, and even working a little bit more with the CAD data we could create a FEA model to study the chassis stiffness.. although for this job we have another more effective possibilities like our tool for chassis stiffness measuring, which is already built and that I will show you soon

Of course when I proposed to the Incomet guys to scan the Kawa chassis, I still didn’t know that finally the CEV Moto2 were going to use a Honda engine, otherwise I would have searched for a CBR chassis. Anyway this Kawa chassis CAD is a very interesting information that for sure will be very useful for us.

You will find higher resolution images in our Flickr gallery.


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Objective CEV moto2 2010.

Published 02/08/2009 @ 15:23 by David Sánchez

Those of you who follow this blog know that last April we “freezed” our moto2 project due to the change in the rules made by Dorna. With this change the bikes changed from a free engine choice to a single engine model made by Honda.

This change was for the World Championship, but the rules for the CEV (Spanish championship) remained unclear. In fact right now currently we have 2 moto2 bikes powered by a Yamaha R6 engine racing in the CEV (LaGlisse and Promoracing bikes). So we decided to wait till the rules were more defined.
Finally that moment arrived some days ago, when Dorna made public his intentions for the CEV 2010.. finally the engine will be the Honda one:
“In Moto2 the minimum age will be 15, and the bikes will require a Honda CBR 600 RR engine. The chassis must be a prototype, not derived from a production model, that conforms with the technical and safety regulations established by the FIM for their Grand Prix counterparts. The single tyre rule will also be in place. Any possibility of modification in engine parts will be heavily restricted.”
To tell you the truth I thought that finally the CEV moto2 rules would remain with a free engine choice. The reason is that a lot of teams that race in the CEV have some kind of support from the motorcycle brands (Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Triumph) and having a single engine manufacturer (Honda) those teams that race with other brands won’t have that support. For these teams, taking into account the current economic crisis, it will be very difficult to find the necessary budget to approach a CEV moto2 season.

It is going to be quite an adventure, both in the technical and economic aspects, but I think that the experience is going to be worth the effort. So in Bottpower we go back to work in order to build a moto2 bike with a Honda engine.

I will explain the process it in this blog.


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