Lean, mean & lime green
It is a fascinating world in which factory team bikes live, and there are three separate elements to that world. Naturally there’s the race day, then there’s the paddock fettling sessions where minor and occasionally not so minor faults are repaired and things get checked over between races, and then there’s the factory race shop where the machine is built in the first place. The hallowed ground with locked doors and blanked out windows being accessible only to a favoured few –at least that’s what we like to believe.
Once their race life is over, these bikes generally head back to the factory, rarely to be seen again unless, as in this SR400’s case, it comes to an enthusiast who appreciates it for
