Super Hooligan Rider Andy DiBrino Debuts CFMOTO 800NK In Race Trim At 2025 Moto Beach Classic

When Andy DiBrino unveiled his CFMOTO 800NK race bike at Bolsa Chica State Beach for the 2025 Mission Roland Sands Design Moto Beach Classic, the bike “turned heads and dropped jaws.” *Photo by Fast Glass Media.*

Pacific Northwesterner Andy DiBrino, who has been competing and winning in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship since the series began in 2017 (he won the Championship in both 2017 and 2018), traveled south along the West Coast to Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach, California, where he competed in this past weekend’s 2025 Mission Roland Sands Design Moto Beach Classic.

A stock CFMOTO 800NK naked street bike. *Photo courtesy of CFMOTO.*

For DiBrino, it was the culmination of a year-long project in which he transformed a CFMOTO 800NK streetbike into a flat track race bike. As the “NK” in the motorcycle’s nomenclature implies, the 800NK is a “naked” bike or “streetfighter” produced by up-and-coming motorcycle manufacturer CFMOTO, whose U.S. headquarters are in Plymouth, Minnesota.

You have probably seen CFMOTO’s product lineup on display in the paddock during a MotoAmerica race weekend, and maybe you’ve even taken a demo ride or two on CFMOTO’s motorcycles, if not the 800NK itself.

Needless to say, DiBrino’s experience with the 800NK went far beyond just a “demo.” And, if you consider that “demo” is less a truncation of the word “demonstration” and more a derivative of the word “demolition,” well, more on that, later.

DiBrino’s CFMOTO 800NK during its transformation into a Super Hooligan race bike. *Photo courtesy of Andy DiBrino.*

DiBrino worked with several fabricators, aftermarket parts suppliers, and technicians during this past year to prepare his 800NK streetbike for this past weekend’s Moto Beach Classic.

As he explained, “I went all-out on this build. Travis Johnson at Savage Custom did a lot of the fabrication and customization, which included the swingarm, subframe, foot controls, fuel cell, and carbon fiber bodywork. Savage put the bike together and modified all the parts to fit, including the suspension, wheels, triple clamps, etc.

“Jimmy Wood built the suspension, and Michelle Disalvo from S&S Cycle’s race department built the electronics. She used a Maxx ECU with a wiring harness that she custom-built for my bike. Basically, the only two things that remained stock on the bike are the frame (per Moto Beach Classic rules) and the 799cc parallel-twin engine.”

DiBrino did a shakedown of the race bike at Apex Motorsports Park just prior to the Moto Beach Classic, and it ran flawlessly. *Photo courtesy of Andy DiBrino.*

According to DiBrino, the 800NK is very similar to the KTM 790 DUKE and, by extension, it mimics the KTM 790 Super Hooligan build that he did with Savage Custom in 2019. “All the parts that Travis at Savage Custom developed for the KTM 790 DUKE fit right on this CFMOTO 800NK. Same with the S&S Cycle electronics package, too. Also, it’s essentially the same setup that AFT rider Briar Baumann used on his KTM flat tracker in 2024.”

DiBrino did his first shakedown on the CFMOTO 800NK at Apex Motorsports Park in Perris, California, just prior to this past weekend’s Moto Beach Classic. “The bike ran amazing right out of the gate,” he said. “I’m so thankful to Michelle Disalvo and Dean Young at S&S Cycle for getting the bike finished and ready for me to race at the Moto Beach Classic.”

According to DiBrino, the bike “turned heads and dropped jaws” at Bolsa Chica. “The year-long project came together just in time,” he said. “And it showed its potential in the heat race when I came from dead-last to almost taking the win (I lost by a wheel length). It was a pretty impressive debut, especially considering that I missed practice.”

The track at Bolsa Chica State Beach was “gnarly.” *Photo by Keith Finch Photography.*

And now, we come to the “demolition” part of the story. “The track was pretty gnarly and not what we Super Hooligan racers anticipated,” DiBrino said. “It was very fulfilling for me to be back at the event with my very own motorcycle and to see the looks on the faces of so many excited people who saw the bike for the first time. But, I had a big crash in the main event.”

It was an unfortunate bit of déjà vu for DiBrino, who also crashed in the Moto Beach Class main event back in 2018 and suffered a broken right arm and a dislocated right shoulder.

DiBrino’s fractured humerus, and there is absolutely nothing humorous about it. *Photo courtesy of Andy DiBrino.*

This time, DiBrino fractured the humerus in his right arm. Surprisingly, he said the injury was nowhere near as bad as the broken tibia and fibula in his right leg that he suffered two years ago when he crashed during Mission Super Hooligan National Championship race one at Daytona.

“The good news is that my doctor said I’m 99% likely to heal up just fine without any surgery at all.”

Good news, indeed, because he can’t wait to get back on his CFMOTO 800NK custom race bike again and rip some more fast laps.

He’s a motorcycle racer. That’s what racers do.