Applied Powdercoat - Supports Javelin In WERA West "Middleweight Solo"

Interested in becoming a corporate sponsor for Javelin? Please contact Bernie Broderick at b2nomad@sbcglobal.net for further info.

Javelin Broderick is a 14 year old novice road / dirtracer hailing from Ojai, California. He started his career in racing in 2005 on a Yamaha PW80. He quickly moved to a Kawasaki KX65 and steadily moved up in his racing results from race to race. He currently rides a ProCircuit Kawasaki KX85 with major sponsors - The Track Club, NEXX-USA Helmets and Applied Powdercoating. His results continued to climb and in late 2007, Javelin won the fall, 85cc Novice Championship at  Racetown 395 in Adelanto, CA. and followed that with a 2nd place win in the 8 race Dealer Series at the same track.

In late 2007, he began roadrace training on a Kawasaki Ninja250 riding trackdays with his father and The Track Club. With expert training from various Track Club coaches and his introduction to Jason Pridmores "Star School", Javelins lap times on the low power Ninja 250 began to drop.

Early in 2008, Javelin began riding a Kawasaki KX85 powered, RS125 roadracing chassis and then quickly to a full RS125.

After completing his very first big track race weekend at The Streets Of Willow with the CMRRA on 08/10/08, Javelin found himself walking away with 1st place in 85cc stock novice, 85GP novice and a 6th place finish in Formula GP all accomplished on the RS chassis with a bone stock 85cc motor!

He began racing with the WERA West organization at the beginning of 2009 on a Suzuki SV650 Superstock motorcycle and in 4 races has two first place finishes in Lightweight Twins Superstock Novice and a second and third place finish in Lightweight Twins Superbike Novice (riding the SS bike). He currently leads the points in SS novice and is second in the points in SB novice.

Outside of motorcycles, Javelin enjoys riding his Specialized roadracing bicycle and is also an Honor Role student in Grade 9 at Chaparral High School in Ojai, California. From time-to-time, he also fancies himself to be a pretty good guitar player. An all-around great kid with a legitimate love of motorcycles and motorcycle racing. Javelin considers himself to be a great sportsman and very approachable on and off the track.   

Racing is always about finding an advantage.

Whether it is as simple as having the fastest rider or the most powerful motor, we, as teams always try to seek out a way to get a leg up over the competition. Having been big fans of Valentino Rossi, I have always admired his ability to find a way to get to the front even when his machine may not be the fastest one on the grid. The most common element in Rossi that I have witnessed is his ability to out brake the competition into a corner. There have been many occasions where Rossi's straight line speed has been no match for the competition, he simply has not had the fastest bike on many occasions.

Our situation is no different. There are a lot of riders on the grid with Javelins C Superstock class that clearly have superior motors and hence faster straight line speed. The costs involved in building motors of this capability can be huge so for a small, personally funded team like ours, we need to take advantage of anything that may help level the playing field. Brakes are a very common way of achieving this. Brakes are an extremely important aspect of roadracing and Galfer Brakes are our choice by far.

Aaron Hudak has been a friend for some years now and we all met when he used to work for another company. I was delighted when I discovered that Aaron had taken over the sponsorship department at Galfer brakes and he assured us that we would be looked after through the company. He has delivered on that promise and then some. Javelins bikes are running the best possible braking components allowed in Superstock and they make a huge difference in what we can get accomplished.

Galfer is located in Oxnard, CA., which is very convenient for us as it is only about a 30 minute drive from our house. We regularly drop by to see Aaron and the rest of the Galfer team and they always greet us with a smile. This is our second year with galfer brakes and we have absolutely nothing but positive things to say about the way they conduct their business and the way they treat their riders.

We look forward to a long a mutually beneficial relationship with Galfer and hope that you will consider their products when its time for an upgrade.