Drag Racing
Nickleberry testing Funny Bike
This year Tombo Racing and Glen Nickleberry are only running a partial funnybike schedule as they prepare for the 2013 season debut of Glen's new Pro Mod bike. In development now, this new Tombo Racing Pro Mod bike will be based on a Suzuki Hayabusa motor, but highly modified with nitrous, a turbo charger, wheelie [...]
Howard wins SuperComp at PMRA May 19
At the second race of the year, Tombo Racing’s Tim Howard rode his Tombo powered Hayabusa to first place in the highly competitive SuperComp class. The supercomp class is an 8.90 index class, so Tommy Bolton and Tim detuned the Hayabusa so that it would consistently run in 8.90. This same bike typically runs in [...]
We Race What We Sell
A dream to some, a nightmare others, Tombo Racing at the drag strip wins again. At the last PMRA race of the season, Tim Howard raced his orange street bike using the new racing cylinder head and cam combination on top of a stock Hayabusa motor. Tim easily rides this bike to work and cruises the [...]
News
Tombo Racing welcomes My Biker Attorney
Tombo Racing welcomes our new sponsor, Ted Leslie with My Biker Attorney. Ted is a long time bike rider and owns a variety of bikes, ranging from dirt bikes to a Can Am Spyder, a Hayabusa and a Harley Davidson. Ted specializes in legal affairs for motorcyclists. Whether you are dealing with a speeding ticket, [...]
The 2012 Race Season Is Almost Here
The 2012 race season is almost here. We are currently finishing some customer builds as well as our own. Are you ready yet? If not we can help you get there! We have Gen 1 and Gen 2 Busa cylinder heads in stock and ready for exchange. We are also offering big tire kits from [...]
Tommy Bolton and Ernie Soliz – Torco Advanced Lubricants
Tommy Bolton and Ernie Soliz talk about Torco Oil products at the 2011 Indy Dealer Expo Check out our featured Torco products, such as the Torco MPZ Engine Assembly Lubes and the MPZ-HP Engine Assembly Lubes: http://shop.tomboracing.com/brands/Torco-Advanced-Lubricants.html
Choppers
Harley Street Glide gets Tombo Racing touch
In addition to Tombo Racing’s extensive work on Suzuki Hayabusa’s and GSXR’s, as well as Kawasaki ZX-14′s and ZX-10′s, we also do custom work on Harley Davidson motorcycles. In fact Tommy’s personal ride is a Harley. Recently one of Tombo Racing’s customers, Flip with Intense Audio, wanted a different look for his Street Glide. He [...]
Tombo Racing and Ajax Kawasaki Team up for tricked out Vaquero
Tombo Racing recently teamed with Ajax Kawasaki begin building a custom 2012 Kawasaki 1700 Vaquero. Tommy Bolton met with Denny Bietler, owner of Ajax, and picked up the shiny new Vaquero bagger. Over the winter Tommy will be working with a variety of suppliers such as RC Components an generic cialis d Vance & Hines [...]
Videos
Tommy Interviews Brock Davidson
Tommy Bolton interviews Brock Davidson, owner of Brock’s Performance, at the 2011 Indianapolis Dealer Expo.
Hayabusa Engine Rebuild Part 5
We just completed the final chapter of our Hayabusa engine motor rebuild. This video shows Tommy degreeing the cams in a 2008 Suzuki Hayabusa motor. Watch while he uses a degree wheel and dial indicator to adjust the cams.
2006 AMA Prostar Drag Racing in Memphis
Here is a quick clip of Glen Nickleberry at the 2006 AMA Prostar races in Memphis, TN where he won the Funnybike event. This run was at 6.70 seconds at 211 mph!
Tommy
Tommy named Dragbike.com “Person of the Week”
In February 2010 Tommy Bolton was named Dragbike.com's “Person of th cheap propecia e Week“. Honored for his long history of motorcycle drag racing as an African-American, Tommy's life was highlighted in great detail. zp8497586rq
Tommy Bolton Vintage Clip circa 1986
We found this recently on Youtube, a 1986 video clip by pro racer Ricky Gadson showing his friend Tommy Bolton talking some smack at the drag races!
Tommy Bolton back from knee surgery
After several years of pain, Tommy finally went in for knee surgery in September. After a month long recovery, he is now back to building the fastest motorcycles on the planet. In this video Tommy updates us on some of the projects he is working on, including dropping a 1650cc inline 4 motor into a [...]
Featured
Hayabusa Motor Rebuild Part 4 video
After much work and a few unexpected delays, we now have Hayabusa motor rebuild Part 4 video ready. In this video, master engine builder Tommy Bolton explains how to install the ‘Busa head. He shows how to lube the cams, torque down the head bolts, and get things ready to go. After shooting this video [...]
2010 NHRA Pro Stock Champion LE Tonglet
Our recent trip to the 2011 Indianapolis Dealer Expo was a change for Tommy Bolton to connect with old racing friends from “back in the day”. In this short interview, Tommy talks to the next generation, 2010 NHRA Pro Stock Champion LE Tonglet and his father Gary. Tommy and Gary used to race against each [...]
Hayabusa Engine Rebuild Part 2
In this second of 4 videos, Tommy Bolton explains the prep work done on Tombo Racing S&S (Street & Strip) motor during a rebuild. All the parts have been sent off for rebuilding and Tommy prepares the pistons, gaps the rings, and explains how the head was flow benched and the cams were welded and [...]