Ed SorboEd Sorbo has raced around the world – to date, he counts 75 different racing motorcycles and 58 different tracks with an immense amount of success covering four consecutive decades and he‘s still racing.
Sorbo has racked up five overall club championships, the world 24-hour mileage record for 600cc Production motorcycles. He made a living as an AMA Privateer for six years with a fifth overall in the 2002 AMA 250cc GP championship and a podium finish in 2003.
Sorbo knows the tuning end of the operation as well, having been a shop owner, served as a dealership service manager, crew chief for an AMA SuperStock team full-time from 2004 to 2006 and as crew chief for AMA racers Elena Myers among others.
Sorbo knows the operational end of the racing business as well, having worked both with the AMA, Canadian Superbike series, WERA and F-USA as a race official. And he owned the Hawaii Road Race Association.
Sorbo operates his current tuning and personal coaching operation – EDventure Racing from his shop in Southern California, and is often found at race tracks across the Western United States – and beyond.
Lindemann Engineering shares space with EDventure Racing.
Jim Lindemann, RIP.Photo by John Ulrich. Copyright 2011 Roadracing World Publishing, Inc., used with permission.
Jim Lindemann started in the suspension business back in the 1970s, working for Fox Shox. His innovative concepts quickly caught on in the world of off-road and on-road motorcycle racing.
With his assistance, riders including Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz and Doug Polen have won AMA Superbike races and championships.
Lindemann’s work has helped racers succeed in disciplines ranging from motocross to IndyCars to dirt track.
Working from his personal 1,600 square foot shop, modifying stock components or machining new components from scratch, Lindemann has tuned and developed suspensions for some of the most sophisticated racing equipment on the tracks today.