UEM Super Twin Bike
2007 Super Twin champion Lorenz Stauble is now looking for a best of second spot this season after a couple of events where the Erbacher racing bike has stumbled at critical moments, helping to hand a very healthy points lead to Svein Olaf Rolfstad. Stauble did take the maximum qualifying points in Norway with a 6.740/211.66 to head the puzzlingly short Super Twin field. The absence of entries was particularly marked given that the same event saw a Nordic Super Twin round with many of the same riders (including two time former UEM champion Ronny Aasen) and bikes that had competed in earlier UEM Super Twin events.
Nitro rookie Job Heezen is really finding his feet on the ex-Pels/Koedam Zodiac bike. Having set the best mph figures in the class over the eighth mile at Mantorp (and been hit in the neck from a stray bolt thrown up from the burnout box into the bargain, comparisons with Frankenstein’s monster being rife afterwards), Heezen ran a 6.807/211.87 to slot in behind Lo in Norway and reset the top speed mark for the Godfather 6 bike.
Hans Olav Olstad bounced back from totally disassembling the Fast Cat motor in qualifying at Mantorp (and we do mean totally, cases, pistons, rods, and heads, although the crank and cases might be salvageable with a lot of work). With a BITZA (bits of this and bits of that) motor put together from loaned parts from a truly multinational array of racers in the frame, Olstad managed to get a 7.02 for fourth spot on the ladder.