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je m'a trompé

Malain, tu es tellement contaminé par la British attitude que tu postes en anglais maintenant

Aïe, bobo la tête

[motard31]

Des News

Dear Alain,

We're really sorry that we've taken so long to get back to you with an
update, we're still a titchy team here at Mac and the project has taken some
interesting twists and turns in the last couple of months. Here's a sense of
what we've been up to...

We have now heard formally from the 'Top Brass' at Harley-Davidson / Buell
that we cannot buy new Buell Blast motors from them. They took our request
very seriously and treated us professionally and we wish them well for the
future of their company but this means we're going to have to re-think the
way we can build more than one Mac motorcycle, we would welcome your
thoughts on how you think we could do this. The feedback in favour of the
Buell Blast motor over the Yamaha XT 660 motor has been overwhelming and we
are sincerely grateful for all your comments and ideas but it looks like
nothing comes closer to our original vision and philosophy than an
air-cooled thumper.

When we heard from HD we could easily have called it a day and gone back to
our day jobs but the whole crew wanted to press on with the prototype
because we whole-heartedly believe in Mac and just in case HD change their
minds...so the big news is that we've made a start on the design-and-build
of our first 'Frankenstein' prototype, a Mac 'Spud', using a second-hand
Blast motor. We've teamed-up with the renowned British race chassis and
performance parts company, 'Harris Performance' to build it. It's worth
looking at their website ; <http://www.harris-performance.com/>
http://www.harris-performance.com to get a sense of their capabilities and we've
put some photos on our blog, the 'Chin Wag'. Steve and Lester Harris have
been engineering high-performance motorcycles since we were nippers and have
a real empathy with what we're trying to do.



Alongside all this, we've also been working with a couple of great design
engineers on some improvements to the one Blast motor that we have, we've
stripped and rebuilt it for use in the prototype and there's not much we
don't know about these motors now.

Simon Parker at Parker Fabrications in Bournemouth
(http://www.parker-fabrication.co.uk) is going to make the tanks for the prototype,
Simon is a true artisan and craftsman and has produced tanks for the
Petronas race team and now Maico's new range of motocross bikes.



A British exhaust manufacturer is going to help us with exhausts for the
prototype. We'll probably make one to satisfy the regulations and one that
will get the best out of that Blast motor.

Tracey continues to answer your mail in her 'glamorous pyjamas' at her
kitchen table, well into the early-hours most nights. Mark and Ian at
Xenophya are busy working on projects with a couple of well-known motorcycle
manufacturers, including Triumph and Royal Enfield, and Ellis' lounge
remains covered in notes, drawings and components for the prototype - no
wonder he's still single !

We promise we'll keep you posted more frequently from here on, as the
prototype makes progress and you'll be able to see the 'family album' on our
website.

In closing, we'd just like to say a BIG, BIG THANK-YOU to you for all your
support, it means a lot to us and keeps us going when things don't go quite
the way we planned. We sincerely hope that you'll continue to share the
'vision' of Mac with us, as we will with you.

With our best wishes

Miss Tracey Price aka. The Glamorous Assistant and the Chaps at Mac

Mac Motorcycles

Worcester

England

Pourrait-on avoir une traduction pour les non anglophones....merci