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Box Of Frogs Racing Roger Moore’s Funny Bike Racing Team 🐸

Checking clutch, trigger wheel and pick up, while admiring Phil Crossley’s design and machining skills
27/08/2026

Checking clutch, trigger wheel and pick up, while admiring Phil Crossley’s design and machining skills

A weekend of testing or a testing weekend? 😬 After the bike sounding so promising on Friday when we arrived and on Satur...
23/08/2026

A weekend of testing or a testing weekend? 😬

After the bike sounding so promising on Friday when we arrived and on Saturday morning, we took it to the startline for Q1. The burnout didn’t go successfully and the bike was very up and down in RPM before dying.

We made some adjustments for Q2 believing the issue was down to fuelling. Unfortunately the bike then wouldn’t fire at all.

We spent all of Saturday evening going through everything we could possibly think of, narrowing the issue down to ignition but not being able to find the cause. This spilled over to today where we still couldn’t find the cause, even trying another ECU. After trying to start the bike again one last time, a noise made us stop immediately and it appears one of the cams has moved and there’s some damage to now repair. It’s unclear whether this is linked to our ignition problem but we’ll get to the bottom of it eventually!

Thanks to all the people who offered spares and help including, Brad O’Connor, Luke & Andy Robinson, Shaun Branch and Mike Olie

21/08/2026

The start of the weekend at Greenlight nationals. We’ve made some changes based on what we learnt last meeting and have a much stronger idle consistently on methanol and also when switching to nitro. The rpm is also finally responding to the throttle moving! Fingers crossed for tomorrow 🤞🏻

Ready for a weekend testing at Greenlight nationals 💚🍀
21/08/2026

Ready for a weekend testing at Greenlight nationals 💚🍀

Lots going on in the workshop, a new one piece throttle linkage fitted, carbon plenum modified, a new type Maxxecu solen...
11/08/2026

Lots going on in the workshop, a new one piece throttle linkage fitted, carbon plenum modified, a new type Maxxecu solenoid fitted for air clutch control. Troublesome pressure switches removed and billet mounts machined for micro switches on air shutoff valves. And construction of an HDPE plastic fuel tank has begun, a lot of work and new skills of plastic welding to master, but hopefully will be more reliable than aluminium which doesn’t survive the vibration of the V4,
We plan to do some testing at the Green Light Nationals

28/07/2026

We’re still working away on fixes and improvements following our testing at the summer nationals. The bikes first ever burnout was a great achievement, hopefully more to come at our next event

14/07/2026

Post race checks and service have started already 🏁
Maximising our time from now until the national finals to make some headway on the issues from the weekend.

14/07/2026

The livestream video from our final time on the start line on Sunday, big cheers from the spectators as we attempted a launch.

Summer Nationals - Shed of FrogsIt’s difficult to know where to start to describe our first event in Top Fuel Bike but I...
13/07/2026

Summer Nationals - Shed of Frogs

It’s difficult to know where to start to describe our first event in Top Fuel Bike but I’ll try not to write an essay.
Before this weekend the bike had never been towed down the pairing lanes, on the startline, switched from methanol to nitro, let alone moved under its own power or attempted anything further.

That being said, this weekend we achieved:
- Switching from methanol to Nitro
- 5 trips down to the startline with 5 successful startups and switches to nitro there.
- Moving under its own power
- 2 burnouts (of sorts!)
- 1 attempted launch
- Lots of towing with no major issues, we’re quite the experts at towing back up the pairing lanes!
- Countless hours of problem solving and knowledge gain.

None of this was an easy feat and we are incredibly proud not to have missed a single qualifying run attempt.
Behind the scenes, there were many issues found and fixed alongside some intermittent issues which are proving trickier to determine.

Having never worked on a top fuel bike before, let alone something this innovative, the whole team came together and made some outstanding progress.
Roger kept incredible composure every time on the bike with nerves of steel from over 40 years experience in drag racing.

The support, advice and spare parts we received from fellow racers was immense. There are far too many to name but thankyou to all of you.
The biggest thanks of all go to Phil Crossley, for allowing us this opportunity of a lifetime and putting up with hundreds of questions!
The cheers and applauding from racers and spectators at every small milestone showed the true colours of this sport, thankyou.

With lots of data to review and thoughts to reflect on we have time now to make changes and improvements and hopefully make even better progress at the National Finals.

See you all soon! 🐸

11/07/2026

A burnout!!!! 👏🏻 No where near perfect but what progress. Regroup and one more chance today

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