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Riding the 2006 Kawasaki ER-6n |
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Competition for the SV650?
What Kawasaki was after with the ER-6n was the essence of riding ("ER"). A bike that would offer both pleasure and function to virtually every skill level of motorcyclist. In other words, a bike that the experienced rider could appreciate and enjoy, but which could also bring a new rider into the Kawasaki family of high performance motorcycles. It should be noted that this goal has been proven achievable by a similarly-sized machine offered by Suzuki (the SV650). read more... |
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2007 Suzuki GSX-R750 Road Test |
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A tractable motor combines with fine handling to make this an excellent sportbike...
The motor on the GSX-R750 has a very smooth seamless delivery with an electric feel to it. There are no big hits in the powerband, just a steady heightening of power. The motor is a little lacking in the mid-range forcing you to keep the revs up on corner exit. You have to ride it more like a 600 than a 1000 to get the true potential out of GSX-R. Keep the motor close to its rev ceiling at 15,000 rpm and you'll have the GSX-R singing nicely. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, March 13, 2007 (Updated: March 14, 2007) |
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The Thruxton Cup Challenge |
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A look at Triumph Thruxton 900, as modded for the Thruxton Cup...
The motor is stock for the series, with the only allowable mod's being a Dynojet carb kit and freer flowing exhausts. The head received a multi-angle valve job and had the air filter replaced with a freer flowing piece. The exhausts were retro style with reverse megaphones with a not too a mega-noisy sound, and they obviously looked the part. read more... |
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A Motorcycle Tour of Africa |
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This was no quickie day trip...
You can find here some stories, pictures and facts of my trip from The Netherlands to South Africa. This trip took me 1.5 year, I spent 50.000 km's on an old motor-cycle and used some luck.
This was the best thing I ever did and I like to share it with you.
This site isn't made for winning the "most fanciful home page price". The purpose of this site is only that you'll get an idea of how I experienced that beautiful continent. That very different continent. Unknown by a lot of people. With all her troubles and all her beauty. There is not a single day that I don't think of Africa and the African people.
Don't tell my boss, but I'm thinking of another trip. From here to Australia? Or maybe from North America to the most Southern point of South America? read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, March 6, 2004 |
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Guide to Removing Stuck / Stripped Screws |
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Go straight to the paragraph named "Desperate Measures"...
Imagine this: You're doing the first tune-up on your newly acquired bike. To get the oil filter cover off you need to remove three cross-head screws. You apply your trusty $1.89 K-Mart screwdriver to the first screw, and turn. The screwdriver slips out, so you try again, pushing harder. It slips out again, rounding the screw head a little. But you've got your trusty Vice-Grips in the tool box, so you clamp them onto the screwdriver's shank and really bear down on the screwdriver... this time stripping the head completely. Arrrgh!
If you've worked on bikes at all you're probably nodding your head right about now, saying "yeah, I did something like that." Bikes today have higher-quality fasteners than they did 10 or 20 years ago, but still the various forces of entropy conspire to stick fasteners together a little stronger than they're designed for. Here's a guide to un-sticking stuck fasteners. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, July 25, 2005 |
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Coming Soon: BMW K1200S Motorcycle |
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The narrow engine design approximates the width of the 600's...
Now it's official: this year BMW Motorrad will introduce the K 1200 S, a completely new and fascinating high performance motorcycle in the sport segment.
The K 1200 S was designed as a sport bike and is a completely separate motorcycle within the K family. It is radically new, featuring an unprecedented number of innovations. It is a high-precision sport bike offering unique agility as well as enormous output read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, May 21, 2004 |
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Hyosung GT650 vs. Suzuki SV650 |
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To answer the first question to pop into your head, 'what's a Hyosung?'...
Hyosung, the giant Korean industrial combine, is finally offering a 650cc V-Twin sportbike to the US market. It's $950 less than the comparable Japanese model, the Suzuki SV650S, but how does it work? Are Korean motorcycles ready for prime time?
We here at MO spent a lot of time discussing the Hyosung. Maven Ashley had read it was just a rebadged SV650, as Hyosung is rumored to manufacture engines and other components for Suzuki. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, July 25, 2005 |
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Touring Africa by Motorcycle |
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Maybe you really don't want to ride across it yourself...
"You need petrol?" he asks. We tell him we do. "There is no petrol in Mali now, the country is at war," he says. Our jaws drop. We make up a story to explain to him why we must get to Dakar. We tell him that with his help we will be the winners of the Paris-Dakar race.
After we build up his already inflated ego a bit more, he produces petrol in glass liter jars. Each one is inspected and OK'd before being poured ever-so-carefully into the tank, with never a drop spilled. The whole process takes close to an hour, which is very good in African terms... read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, March 8, 2004 |
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