Censport Graphics is proud to present this new technology and technique to produce amazingly detailed bases for a design. For a long time chrome was the coolest thing you could have as a base for your paint job. Now, you can have ultra realistic patterns like desert camo, carbon fiber, burl woods, marble, and stone. This technology was originally invented for the marine industry to simulate wood panels and interior trim because real wood is hard to maintain with water abuse. They were able to make interior pieces made out of plastic that looked exactly like real wood. This same principal has been transferred to the aftermarket and custom industry. Most recently this technology has been used in the hunting world with camo printed shot guns and hunting bows. Censport is proud to be one of the first (if not the first) custom paint companies to experiment with this exciting new technique on helmets. It is going to be the NEW thing that everybody is going to want.

The helmet you see here was designed to use a desert digital camo print. It is the base for the design and all the color will go on top creating a very complex and exciting looking paint job. The finished helmet will have the camo base, and metal flake with candy and pearl paints on top. I also have some carbon fiber helmets in the works so the helmet will look like it was made out of carbon fiber, then the design is painted on top.

This design was originally done for AMA star Josh Hayes of Erion Racing. I met him at Laguna Seca at the Moto GP race last year and told him I would love to paint a couple helmets for him. He seemed eager so I drew something up for him. I noticed he liked to use a scull and crossbones in his designs so I took that idea and designed a helmet around the Jolly Rogers fighter squadron. This design was also to my liking as I wanted to be a naval fighter pilot and Blue Angel since I was 3 years old. Anyway, I sent him the design and he said he liked it but he couldn't have me do it because he was with another painter. I later found out that Arai helmets started mass-producing his old design as a replica. Maybe this is why he couldn't switch painters and couldn't have me do this for him. If he gets the chance to see it all painted up maybe he will decide to switch to Censport! Only time will tell.

But since the design was so much a part of me I decided to paint it for myself for the 08 season. I came up with the design over the winter but up until a couple weeks ago I didn't have time to even think about working on something for myself. Now it is all finished and I will be wearing it later this month at round 4 of my motorcycle championship. I have another killer design for my Arai GP-5K that I will try to get done before too long so stay tuned for it as well.

Tooele, Utah – After registering late for Round 3 of The Masters of the Mountain Series Censport Graphics rider Tyler Cenarrusa had to start all of his races from the back of the grid. The rules state that if you register late then you are put to the back of the pack instead of lining up by your current points status. This meant that instead of starting from the front row in the NGTO race he would start from nearly dead last in a 28-man field. This particular class is an open class, meaning any bike is eligible to race. This means 600cc motorcycles are racing against 1000 cc motorcycles. One good thing for Tyler was that this particular track layout doesn't have a lot of long straights for liter bikes to take advantage of their horsepower. However, starting from the back of such a large field in any class was not going to be easy.

“I was pretty bummed that I made that mistake and I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me. One good thing for my mental game was that I wasn't expecting much so even if I managed a top 10 I was going to be happy. I typically get good starts so I was still optimistic that I could pull out a good result. The only thing I was worried about was the heat. It was around 100 degrees and even though this was a 6 lap sprint race I still get tired toward the end of these races.”

Tyler did end up getting a good start after all, dicing through the pack on his way to turn one. He got about three quarters of the way thru the field at the end of the first lap. He then put his head down to gain as many spots as possible to the end. In the middle of the race there were 4 racers that he had the pace on and could attack. After he got by those riders the gap to the front was too great. He ended up finishing in 3rd.

“After a great start I was able to do most of the hard work by the exit of turn 1. There were a few guys I was battling with in the opening laps and once I got around them I could see the front runners were too far ahead with not enough laps to make a charge. I had no idea what place I was in the entire race. I thought I crossed the line in about 5th or 6th but when I came into my pits everyone was congratulating me on a podium finish. I was ecstatic to say the least!”

Tyler finished 5th and 7th in his other races of the day, but all in all it was a great weekend further gaining his confidence knowing he can be a consistent front-runner. At round 4 in late July he will try not to register late and start from the front where he belongs. Also at round 4 Tyler will be debuting his new helmet design. You can check it out in the gallery section, and read about it in other news.

Tooele, Utah – Round two of the Masters of the Mountain Series Presented by Plaza Cycle didn't treat Censport Graphics rider Tyler Cenarrusa as well as he had hoped. During Saturday practice a bike up the road blew a motor spewing oil all over the apex of turn 5. The corner workers failed to see a number of bikes crash at the corner and when Tyler reached the oil it was too late.

“I was braking and getting ready to turn in when I saw one rider down, I looked back at the track for a split second and then looked back up and saw yet another rider down, I thought to myself that he had target fixation and crashed because he was looking at the first rider down. I looked back at my line once again and then I could see the oil right on the racing line. It was too late because I was already in it, I had no time to react and the bike slid out from under me.”

The bike slid on its left side and when it hit the curbing on the outside of the track the bike started to flip in the air and landed on its right side. The damage was minimal but both rearsets were badly bent and the right handle bar was destroyed. Tyler managed to ride the battered bike back into the pits and make some repairs. A new clip on was installed but there was not another set of rearsets available so all that could be done was to do his best to bend them back into shape.

Race day didn't seam to get any better for Tyler. On the warm up lap for the first race in the NGTU class the bikes oil light came on showing signs of engine trouble. Tyler decided to start the race anyway and see how the bike would react. Tyler got a great start from the front row and came past the line on lap one in 2nd place. The second lap saw Tyler get regulated to 3rd and so on throughout the race. By the checkered flag Tyler fell all the way to 5th.

“It was a total disaster to start on the front row and loose 4 places. With the oil light on I knew the bike wasn't ok. Accelerating out of tight corners the bike would sputter and loose power, this made the bike very unstable coming out of corners and I just couldn't ride as fast as I wanted to. In the fast sweepers when I wanted to get back into the gas the bike felt like riding a pogo stick because with the engine cutting in and out the suspension became unsettled. It felt like the bike was going to fling me off the side. It seemed like every lap I would loose a place, I could hear bikes stacking up behind me and I new with a damaged bike that I wouldn't be able to hold all of them off. On the last lap I was in 4th and a guy got by me down the front straight, I held on to him as close as I could and I saw him brake to late for turn 5. I ducked underneath him to retake the position but he was able to get under me going into the last turn. I squared it up hoping to get a better drive to the finish but he pipped me by .5 of a second at the line.”

With the bike not 100% Tyler decided to call it a day and not race the remaining races. Tyler will no doubt try to redeem himself at round three.

“I didn't want to blow a motor and spew oil on the track causing harm to my fellow competitors so that is why I didn't race the other races at round 2. It is a shame because I was either on the front or second row for those races. For round 3 I will probably be starting from the 4th row now because I didn't score any points for the races I missed. But you can be sure I will give it everything I have to get another podium or even get a win.”

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