I’ve raced bikes on/ off for a long time now and this is the worst service I’ve had in many years.
First of all when your promised delivery in 2/3 weeks 5 weeks is a bit of a piss take, especially as its really knackered up my race prep, I’ve a hectic and pressurised day job, spend a lot of time commuting between Edinburgh and London and don’t have time to flaff around, I now have one week to finish this bike including dyno and / set up time and do not have spare time in my diary to get it to the dyno shop. Thanks for that.
The quality is way below what I expected for £400 a few sample photos below;
Ramair box
Layered carbon, with a various places where the top coat is burst and flaking
you cant see it very well from the pictures but I don’t fancy bits of airbox peeling off and going into my carbs.
The airbox comes without holes for the carb bank to pass air through to the head, there is some markings to drill and cut, but guess what…….., they are not correctly lined up, so you have to best guess the cutting and drilling to match up and it doesn’t. Dunno if you’ve tried to drill layered carbon before, not nice it can split badly.
Got away with to be honest, but not easy, surprise surprise there’s no mention of having to do this in anywhere in the sales info or instructions sheet.
Filling the airbox, is there a COSHH sheet to indicate what sort of shite I’m breathing in? Err, no.
Mudguard
The filler isn’t even, up and down like a whores knickers on a Saturday night. The glass fibre is split in two places
at the back it isn’t even finished, how rough is this that?
N0 way in hell is that mudguard going on one of my bikes.
Top Fairing
The ram air hole is supposed to be a rectangle!!! Laugh, I nearly burst out in grown up tears……
Lower Fairing,
Almost a good bit of kit – but have a look at the screw hole, and tell me how long that’s going to last supported by loose fibres only…
And finally the tail unit with under tray…..
Nice fit!! …Not
Generally the mouldings have lots of imperfections and excess bits stuck on which need rubbed down, all I can assume is its been a rush job, with no thought put into making it comply with any sort of quality standard and no pride taken in the job.
Needless to say I wont be using HC Racetech again.
Ever.
Pissed off and thoroughly stressed out now at getting this bike finished in time to race having paid £165 for my entry.
Thanks again.
