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06/20/10 - MARK YOUR CALENDERS, We have Set a Date For Our 2nd Annual Open House/Free Style Show/Party. For Those of You That Missed It, It Was An AWSOME TIME, Live Music, Free Style Mx Show By Flat Out Freestyle, Food, Drinks , Give-Aways, Raffles, . DON'T MISS IT THIS TIME - ***AUGUST 28TH*** NOON TIL ??? 06/20/10 - Happy Fathers Day To All The DAD'S!!! 05/20/10 - We have changed some of the price structures on our SERVICE page, check it out! 05/20/10 - Please check out the Chris Ruhnke page!! 05/14/10 - SF Performance is now a Cosworth Piston Dealer. Cosworth offers a developing range of Motorcycle engine components for both Moto cross and Sport Bike applications. Click here for more info 04/02/10 - STOLEN PIT BIKE, If anyone sees a KLX110 with a pink frame please contact us, it was stolen out of a friends barn, Thanks! 03/17/10 - SF Performance is now servicing Japanese Street Bikes. Although in the past we focused mainly on offroad we have recently added to our staff, our new Tech Doug has over 25 years experience at a Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki Dealership. We are very excited to have him here. So if you have, or know someone that has a street bike let them know, We will have Tune Up Specials as well as offer FULL service on any Japanese street bike. 02/16/10 Hank from the riverbenders sent this, thought I would pass it along. Everyone, I found this GPS map page for Michigan snowmobile trails. The maps are $39 and are available for Garmin, Magellan & Lowrance It seems like a good price http://www.redpinemapping.com/sled-maps-by-state-michigan-c-56_57.html?gclid=CLbm4Mr_9p8CFUg65wodimMLXQ 02/10/10 - There has been a lot of rumors in the air recently. Contrary to those rumors SF Performance IS NOT going out of business, I started SF Performance over 15 years ago and while many shops come and go we will continue to be here to service your racing, motorcycling, atv and snowmobiling needs. In fact, due to recent changes and improvements in our service department, the last couple of months have been our most profitable in over 2 1/2 years. We are looking forward to a great 2010, thanks for visiting!! 12/26/09 - We are pleased to announce that Cory Hutter will be doing our custom valving for KYB and Showa Suspension. Cory is one of the best in the business for suspension tuning. Cory was the owner/founder of A-Ride suspension and then moved on to be a Factory Suspension Tech for Team Yamaha. This arrangement with Cory shows SF Performance's commitment to supplying the best products and services to our customers. We will however continue to do suspension maintenance in house, i.e. oil changes, seals, bushings, spring changes etc. 10/02/09 - Our first annual open house was a HUGE success. THANKS to the sponsorship from: Line-X, Craiger Construction, Cutting Edge Carpets, Fireplace and Patio Concepts, Stonecrafters, Crystal Lake Golf Learning Center, Law Tigers and Attention To Detail. We would also like to thank all the vendors who donated raffle prizes and give-aways: PARTS UNLIMITED, MOOSE, THOR, FOX RACING, NITRO CIRCUS, EVS, NO FEAR, PIVIOT WORKS, HOT RODS, VERTEX, HOT CAMS, YUASA, BRIDGESTONE, CYCRA, DP BRAKES, AND MOTOCOMM!!! In addition, a special thanks to the Crystal Lake Hooters for the food and service donation, to the band Retro Active, and to Flatout Freestyle for putting on a great show!!! Click here for a few photos from the event. 08/11/09 - WE OUR PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE UPCOMING LAUNCH OF OUR NEW WEB SITE!!! LAUNCH DATE IS SET FOR 10/01/09!!! Web site address will stay the same, but will include many new and exciting features!!! On our new web site you will be able to purchase after market & OEM parts and accessories, purchase Mx gear, schedule engine and suspension work, and view & purchase pre-owned motorcycles from our inventory. Other features will include a calendar of upcoming events, blogs, and an SF performance friends page to post cool Mx pictures. 8/6/09 - Sunday Aug. 16th there is a Freestyle Show at Joey B's Pub located 1 1/2 miles east of SF Performance. We will be there with a booth to launch our new line, NO FEAR!! Come check it out, 11:00am til ??? 8/6/09 - SF Performance is excited to announce we will be stocking both Casuals and Mx Gear from NO FEAR!! It will be arriving soon! 7/27/09 - 2010 Gear from Answer (including the limited Stewart and Rockstar gear and casuals) will start coming in the 1st week in Aug. The new Fox and Thor will be towards the end of August or even the 1st part of Sept. We will be Stocking Gaerne boots (SG12, SG10, and GX1's). This will be in addition to Thor and Alpinestars, giving you a great selection of the best products in the industry. Back to school stuff from Smooth will also be coming in the 1st week of Aug. WHILE MOST SHOPS ARE TRIMMING INVENTORY, SFPERFORMANCE WILL BE STOCKING MORE THAN EVER! KEEPING YOU RIDING WITHOUT WAITING!! 6/08/09 - Well the turn out was a little down at Byron for Nuke 4 because of the prospect of rain and a really ugly looking weather radar in the morning, but those that took a chance and came out, got treated to a perfect track (a little dry if anything), plus we handed out over $400 worth of Sunline Grip Kits for holeshot awards, Special thanks, to Pete R and the scorers on th hill top track for tracking that for us. Unfortunatly James Povolny had van troubles on the way up and had to turn around but he said he would try and make it up here for a few of the Nuke rounds. Met a lot of nice people this weekend. THANKS to everyone that came over to the SF Performance camp to talk to us! TZ was busy all day talking with people and helping them out. We had a great time and look forward to doing it again! 5/26/09 - Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. Next Nuke race at Motorsports park on June 7th is sponsored by SF Performance. We have a few things planned. Many of you know our head wrench Tom Zont, he is one of the best in the business with motors and suspension. For those of you who haven't met him, come out to Byron on the 7th, TZ will be there all day to talk about motors, suspension, and bike set up. We will be offering discounts on work that is scheduled at the event. We will also be giving out hole-shot awards for all 1st motos (both tracks). James Polvolny is coming up, so come out and watch some great racing and get an autograph. It is also a Kawasaki Contingency event! See you at the races! Steve Frye 4/14/09 - There's been a lot going on (that's why no updates for a while. We are busier in our service dept. than ever before. (Turn around is still good but please call to schedule any major work). Had some setbacks with the Dyno room. Venting wasn't enough, so we had to tear it out and redesign it, and we had some software issues. I think we have both issues addressed and will be running a bike on it again this week. I will update here as soon as I have some news. Getting ready for outdoors if the weather will ever break!! SF Performance is sponsoring Round 4 of the Motorsports Park Nuclear Series!! WE WILL HAVE SPECIALS AT THE TRACK SO COME ON OUT! DEATAILS CLICK HERE 1/12/09 - Well, the Sears Centre Arenacross was completely DOMINATED by SF Performance. James Povolny and Cameron Lansing won just about every qualifier they were in and JP went 4-1-1-1 on the mains and Cameron went 3-5-3-and a dnf after crashing while in second place. Also had some good performances, making mains by Derek Whitney and Mike Akaydin but a little bad luck keeping them off the podium. Great job also to some of our amatuer riders, Eric Utech and Alex Nagy, Brad Behrens, Tom Kraeplin and the Lopez family (that made up most of the 50 class). Great Job to all of you, and we would like to say THANK YOU to all of our sponsored riders for all the hard work - Steve, Chris and TZ For those who didn't see it here is a link a nice article on Racer X's website about James Povolny. CLICK HERE 11/27/08 ONE INDUSTRIES GEAR IS IN STOCK NOW!!! ALSO FMF CASUALS ARE HEAR!!! ****WE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAYS AFTER THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND FOR THE FALL AND WINTER. 9/29/08 - We have the new ONE Indutries Gear coming in November. New '09 Castle snow gear is in stock Now!! We also have the new Answer Rockstar gear IN STOCK NOW!! We have purchased a DCM Valve and Seat Machine. This machine allows us to cut multi angle as well as radius cut seats. It is also faster than cutting by hand so you can get back to riding sooner! We are excited to announce that we have purchased a State of the art chassis dynometer to improve our R&D of our racing engines, and also to aid our tuning of the new fuel injected machines. Setup has been slow but only becuase we are extremely busy in the service dept. We should be ready soon to do dyno runs on not only Dirt Bikes but on ATV's and Sreet Bikes as well. We bought this dyno brand new and this major purchase shows our commitment to building the best bikes on the track. 9/15/08 The EVS Revolution is finally here! New '09 gear is trickling in every day, it is coming in slow this year due to slow shipments from overseas. We will be stocking the new gear from Fox, Thor, Answer (Rockstar), Msr and the NEW ONE Indutries Gear! Also for the snow guys (and gals) we we be stocking Castle and HJC snow helmets, they have a lot of cool new stuff including a new Monster pullover that should be here soon. 8/26/08 We will be at Motorsports Park this weekend for Nuke 10 and then to Aztalan on Sept. 13/14th for the Racer-X Vet series and the Azzie Pro-Am. There will be SF Performance sponsored riders in many classes, come on out and cheer them on! You might even see this old man throw a leg over my 450. 8/26/08 - The guys rode well, the competition is unbelievable, tons of talent in both classes. James made the Sunday show and rode very well but ran out of steam in both moto's, he hasn't been able to ride much this summer with all of his injuries. Scotty, JR and J. Six headed out east and J. Six main the show at Southwick with 35/30 moto finishes.... Great Job Johnny!! Good luck to all of you at Steel City! 8/15/08 - WE ARE OFF TO MILLVILLE, SFPERFORMANCE HAS 5 RIDERS AT THE PRO NATIONAL THIS WEEKEND. JAMES POVOLNY AND CAMERON LANSING ON THE 450'S AND JR GARRETT, SCOTTY ZONT, AND JOHNY SIX ON THE LITES. TRACK THEIR RESULTS HERE A fund has been established to help the family of Jordan Cram in this obvious time of need. All donations need to be in the form of a check made payable to: SF PERFORMANCE HAS PURCHASED A DYNO!... more VOTE BELOW!! UPDATES: 7/7 - RED BUD WAS AWESOME THIS YEAR (AT LEAST WEATHER WISE) VERY TOUGH COMPETITION WITH STACKED CLASSES IN LITES AND MX. JP AND JR ARE HEADING TO BUDS CREEK TO GIVE IT ANOTHER SHOT! 6/16 - WELL BYRON GOT RAINED OUT. LOOKS LIKE WE ARE HEADING TO MOTOLAND THIS WEEKEND FOR THE PRO-AM. IT WILL BE GREAT RACING AND A GREAT WARM UP FOR RED BUD! 6/10 - JAMES WILL BE COMING TO TOWN THIS WEEKEND TO PICK UP HIS BIKES AND DO SOME TESTING. TO GET SOME TRACK TIME IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL BE HEADING TO THE NUKE RACE SUNDAY. COME OUT TO BYRON AND WATCH ALL THE SF PERFORMANCE RIDERS IN ACTION! 6/3 - Sunday was round 4 of the Byron Nuke series, Congrats to all the SF Performance riders that dominated the event, sweeping the top 4 spots in the 450 A and top 3 in the 250A, along with top finishes in the 50's, 65's, 85's, and 14-24. Great job guys!!! 6/2 - Spoke with James yesterday and looks like he is going to skip High Point. While his arm is healing very well he just won't have enough seat time to be 100%. 5/15/08 - James' arm is healing very well and he is able to train and work out and it looks like we are on track to race the High Point National at Mt. Morris. 5/5/08 Congrats to all the SF Performance riders at the MC Motopark Pro-Am. With Cameron Lansing and Jonathan Six sweeping the 1st two overalls in the 250 Pro class and Derek Whitney winning moto 1 of the 450's (2nd moto didn't go quite as well), SF Performances' dominance was again felt. GREAT JOB GUYS!!! 4/18/08 - James' sugery went well and he is at home with his family resting. 4/17/08 - SFPerformance rider James Povolny is undergoing surgery today to put a plate in his arm after a first turn crash in the 450 LCQ at the Detroit Supercross. James suffered a broken arm and a concussion in the crash. He is in great spirits and can't wait to get back racing, he is planning his return to be the national at High Point. I will speak with James in a couple of days and post an update. Been a while (sorry). Just got home from Detroit, what a weekend! WOW...Reed's crash, Canard not getting his bike started, Povolny breaking his arm, and Cameron qualifying 41'st and just missing the night show on his 18th b-day....so close, What a bummer. JR struggled a little on a VERY technical track, but him and Cameron will give em heck in St Louis next weekend. As for James, he will be out for several weeks, just got off the phone with him and sounds like surgery on his arm, at least thats what he wants, so he can get riding ASAP. We will get his bikes set up for outdoors while he is healing, although we will miss the opening rounds we will hit as many outdoor nationals as we can. Atlanta was the opening round for SF Performance Racing, JR had a bad start with a crash in the first timed practice and got a concussion and was advised by the medics (and Jim Sr.) to call it a night. James had an awesome ride going in heat 1, as you may have seen on CBS sunday morning, but with only three laps to go while in 5th place he came up a little short on a difficult triple and went over the bars. James almost holeshoted the LCQ but went down in the sandy first turn trying to tuck inside for the lead. Although the results may not show it James and his SF Performance KX450 looked AWESOME. Indy, HEAR WE COME!! Derek and Cameron are out of the opening rounds of the east coast supercross due to injuries. James Povolny and JR Garrett are ready to tear it up in Atlanta. Stay tuned for results and more info!! Congrats too James, Cameron and Derek for a GREAT job at the Sears Centre. SF Performance was a dominating force in the Pro classes. Also a big congrats to Alex Nagy and Bailey Stefka for there great performances on there SF Performance tuned bikes (special thanks to TZ for that!!!!!). Alex has totally dominated the 65 class at every Arenacross he has been to. GREAT JOB GUYS!! SF Performance Racing is proud to announce they have signed AMA Pro rider James Povolny to ride for them for the '07-'08 season. James, along with SF Performance AMA Pro riders Derek Whitney, Cameron Lansing and JR Garrett will be riding the AMA Arenacross Series as well as East Coast Supercross and Select Motocross events. 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