"The·others don't seem tohave
the enthusiasm that .
MOTORCYCLIST"s editors · d o."
-.Ha~ry
"'aillet ,
PHOTOS: NICK IENATSCH
Name: Harry Maillet
Occupation: Owner, The Performance Works
Company description: "The
Performance Works started about
1976. We got into racingjust for
fun and saw there was a street
market for many of the specialty
items we were using on the racing
equipment. Ours is a one-stop
shop : a perso!} can 'get a tune- up or
a complete bike built. I enjoyed
racing , but forme the real challenge was creating a marketplace
for expensive toys. Some of the Bimot as we sell cost in excess of
$30,000, and the people who buy
- them are the ones who really appreciate high-quality machinery .
Often they have a collection of
cars-Ferraris, Porsches-and are
multi-bike owners. They're not
looking for something that everybody else has ; they want the quality and something that is unique."
. Projects: "Our latest was the Bi-
mota SB4S, which we tore down to
the bare frame tubes and recreated.
I see the SB4S as The Performance
Works' rolling showroom; it displays what we Can do and the way
we accomplish our objectives. My
personal favorite of all the bikes
I've built is probably my 1979 Kawasaki MK II ."
Riding history: "I've been into
mot orcycles since I was a kid-,
I' ve never been able to get away ..
from them . I owned a series of Triump hs and BSAs until the Japanese market really hit about 1973
and I got into Kawasakis. I did a
lot of club racing years ago and
had my shar e of wins and losses.
We also did some building for riders like Harry Klinzmann and
Steve McLaughlin back then and still do some minor sponsorship."
Highway 33, or the Angeles Crest
Hi ghway ."
Magazine: "When I got into this
business ' one of the first things I
did was sort out the magazines to
see who was reaching the kind of
performance-oriented rider I'm after, and what it boiled down to
was MOTORCYCLIST. The oth ers don 't seem to have the enthusi- . asm that MOTORCYCLIST's editors do."
This endors ement is purely voluntary . No fee or
other cons ideration is paid.
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Riding preference: "Like most
of our clientele, I' m a sport rider. I
try to get in a ride at least every
Saturday or Sunday morning, and
I really enjoy riding the Ojai area,
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