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A J Racing, Kirkby Mallory (2026)

14/06/2025

So now the hand is pretty much recovered finally it’s time to sort my favourite bike out and get her back to where she should be. Next round is Donington for me at the beginning of August. Thank you for watching this little update and hopefully if you fancy a day watching some amazing bikes get to a CRMC race weekend.

23/03/2025

CRMC Mallory Park first race weekend of 2025 - where do we start!

Friday - arrive early and get set up. Take bike to scrutineering only to find there was an issue with a crack in the switchgear, which had made the unit come loose. I guess that’s what happens with a 40 year old bike. Luckily I had a spare with me, a quick change over and back to scrutineering and all passed. Ready to race.

Saturday - Practice was in damp conditions. But qualified 20th overall. Race conditions were a lot better as the track had dried, I even managed lap times of 1:03m. Due to incidents on track which delayed all races in the day, I only got one race in and the other three were to be run the next day. However, that one race was my best ever so far and I finished in third place!

Now Sunday was a different kettle of fish. Lots of rain, meant a damp track. First race of the day and I qualified in 15th on the grid. A great start off the line, settled in but the track was wet. I was in a battle with three other riders with positions swapping frequently. Passed the riders at the Hairpin and Devils Elbow and the third before Gerrards. This gave me a good run down the Stebbe Straight towards the John Cooper Esses AND that’s where it went wrong. Exiting the right-hander, as I opened the throttle the back end came round to bite without warning, and I parted company with the bike landing in the middle of the track on my left hand with a thud. Scrambled to safety quickly before being sliced by bikes heading towards me at 90 mph.

After the mandatory trip to the medical centre and the bike going to the tech bay for assessment, Mrs Jones came to find me and called me a t**t! Off to A&E tomorrow for an X-ray as I have sausages for fingers and a swollen hand with bruising coming through.

The bike needs some TLC before the next race meeting in Anglesey at the beginning of May.

Great to see lots of friends and family come along to support us and thanks to friends for helping us pack away today.

As ever thanks to Mrs Jones for not losing her s**t when I went

P.S. it’s actually Mrs Jones typing this because fat fingers would take 3 hours to do it.

14/03/2025

Well we are one week away from the 1st round at Mallory Park!! How quick has the season come round again?

A couple of weeks back we had the chance to test at Mallory on what can only be described as a glorious day. The weather was amazing even though the 1st session was a tad chilly with vented leathers on 😬.

The little GPZ was brilliant and it was good to get reacquainted with her for a few laps.

If you’re at a loose end next weekend 22nd and 23rd have a trip to Mallory Park and watch some stunning classic bikes racing.

Hope to see you there.

11/08/2024

I’ve realised that I’ve not put a progress report of how the season is going!! Sorry so let’s give you an update.
Darley Moor 1st weekend.

Arrived on Friday afternoon and got set up and the 1st time of getting the bike scrutinised!! All was good and no problems at all. Noise test was good too.
We did a track walk too in the rain ☔️ fortunately I’d ridden Darley quite a bit but I’d never ridden the GPZ!
Saturday morning I felt so nervous. Practice was a timed session of 10 mins.
It felt good the bike was brilliant too.
I made good progress over the 4 races over 2 days and knocked 12 seconds off my practice times and actually started to have a couple of battles with my closest rivals.
I scored points in all 4 races and that was a huge plus.
The little GPZ may only have 62bhp but it goes well and I can still scare myself 😂.

Cadwell Park

Having only ridden Cadwell a couple of times before I was very apprehensive. Especially after the track walk the elevation is incredible.
I had to fit the baffle for Cadwell as I failed the noise test oops! Then the bike wouldn’t start I started to panic then it started and didn’t let me down all weekend.
Practise went well and I started at the back of the grid which is fine by me as there’s some quick riders out there.
Again my race progress was good and again managed to gain the odd place here and there still scoring points and staying upright is always a bonus.
I think it was race 1 I had a rider literally come underneath me as I’d tipped in nothing bad I had to adjust slightly but it’s racing and the rider was in the other class even though we are all in the same race.
Race 2 and as I’m on my racing line going through a bend the same rider passed on the way out of the bend waving their arms at me!!! I believed I’d done nothing wrong so I went and did the gentlemanly thing and spoke to the guy in case I’d sone something wrong as I’m learning as we go. I was met by a fairly abrupt response about it just being racing. I left at that point as he definitely didn’t want to engage with a novice. Unlike everyone else I’d come across within the paddock who are willing to help.
Day 2 and the races were great again I gained points and got quicker still with a fastest lap of 2:09.20 I was chuffed to bits.
Again the bike is brilliant and so much fun.

Donington Park

Wow what a weekend it was a classic festival.
All good on scrutinising the bike and my gear. This weekend was a noisy one so the baffle came out to let the Little GPZ sound amazing.
I still get nervous as hell before practise and races but it disappears as soon as the lights go out!!
This weekend there were 4 classes in the race due to the amount of races to be done.
I enjoyed practice as we did my favourite layout of Donington (no Melbourne loop).
I managed to finish all 4 races and had a battle again with my closest rival and managed to beat him YES!! On the last race I gave it everything and managed to blow a fork seal and cover myself and the engine in fork oil!!!! Lovely smell.
One of the highlights was getting interviewed as I turned off the track at the end of Race 4. Have to say the guys that race are some of the most encouraging out there. On to Oulton Park.

Massive shout out to my biggest Fan 😂 Sam. She agreed to follow me on this journey and I can’t thank her enough for what she does. 😊
Another mahoosive shout out to my mate Rob who helps me so much looking after the little GPZ he knows it inside out and I’m slowly learning what I need to do with more technical issues that arise. 😊

If you managed to read it all well done and thank you 😂🏍️

07/08/2021

Evening hope everyone is enjoying this wet Saturday evening!!!!
Who has stole the sunshine eh?
Anyway I’m after a bit of a favour as I need the tool shown in pictures 3 & 4 which is to hold the inside the forks while I undo the Allen bolt underneath.
If anyone knows where I can get my hands on one drop me a message and I’ll be forever grateful and possibly buy you a beer, wine or a cuppa 😊🏍

02/08/2021

So today and most of this week I plan to do some work on the bike.
Hopefully with my new assistant mechanic I’ll make good progress. 😊🏍

28/05/2020

Don’t you just love a box of goodies??

That’s the new shock for the FZ I only ordered on Tuesday and it’s been built and delivered from France!!! Thanks to The shock Factory for amazing service and a wealth of knowledge. It was built for my weight etc and has a height adjuster to pick the rear of the bike up for racing. Here’s the link https://www.facebook.com/MikeCaponsShockFactory/

14/03/2020

When AJ aka Frodo finds his cousin whilst shopping

13/03/2020

Guess who's a happy bunny today after refurbishing the rear brake calipers. Thanks to for great customer service. Also thanks to Laura for spending 2 hours getting the the thing stripped!

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