Hey!

Hi my name is Elliott Andrews, I work at Cheltenham H-D and am also part of the Blade motorsport XR1200 race team. As Gav said below racing Harleys has also been a bit of a dream for me. I have been working on harley's for just over 4 years now and I wouldt want to work on anything else!

Being part of the race team is hard work but good fun ( work hard, play hard seems to sum it up!) we do have a real hoot when were away racing and the whole team gets on well.

Check out some of the pics below!

Not all hard work

It's not all hard work at the racing sometimes we get to hang out with people substantialy better looking than ourselves. What's that I hear you say "not possible". Well judge for youselves:

These are the Harley Cheerleaders. Elliott goes all funny whenever they're around!! 

That's me with Roland Sands in Parc Ferme after our race at Brands.

Hello!

Hello everyone. Gavin here, team manager/crewchief for Oxford and Cheltenham HD XR1200's. This year I have realised a  15 year career long dream by being involved in Harley-Davidson circuit racing. Never thought it would ever happen, then in mid 08', I started hearing rumours and saw some pictures from the Padova bike show of a race kitted XR1200.My excitement level went through the roof. The italian dealers did about four rounds of a mini series with around 40, yes 40 bike grids and it was a great sucess.
So when HDUK sent an email around in early 09' Blade Group (with me begging) signed up for the series, then............Nothing happened. To say I was gutted was a complete understatement. Lack of interest from the dealer network + the economic climate conspirered against Harley (and me). In August last year I heard of a demo race at Silverstone and suggested to my boss that if anything was going to happen in 2010' then it would be a great idea to get a bike to have a leg up on everyone else. Being a petrol head he agreed and pushed the button. So here we are. Our season has been up and down so far. Our orginal rider for the Oxford bike Darren Neal bowed out of the season at Mallory park, due to not being able to com.mit the time anymore (racing deos tend to consume your entire life) as he has a young family and his own push bike shop and he's a salesmen at one of Blades bike shops. However within hours of him bowing out we'd signed a new rider by the name of James Webb (who was riding for the Foudry).James slotted very well into our team of Gary Byrne No.44 on the Cheltenham bike, Elliot Andrews, my right hand man on the spanners. So really looking forward to the rest of the season.