These instructions are intended to be followed in order. The purpose of this order is to minimize the [motorcycle's] exposure to corrosive agents and prolong its life & good looks as much as possible. This guide assumes that the vehicle is being stored for more than a month and less than a year. There may be other storage procedures you should follow if you plan to store the vehicle for longer. For storage of less than a month in temperatures that don't go below freezing, you don't really need to do anything...

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.

If you do a Roethlisberger and hit face-first, you may only appreciate what a full-face helmet can do for you if you aren't wearing one. Helmet wearers who take a hit that would have scrambled their eggs if they had been bareheaded often just think, "I'm glad I had that on." But it's hard to fully appreciate what you avoided.

Roethlisberger has said that if he rides again, it will be with a helmet. I'm guessing it will be a full-face helmet, since he now probably understands its value.

If you insist on using drag pipes on your [Motorcycle], there is something you can do to improve the low and mid range power produced by the engine. Even with the improvement listed here, the streetable engine power is not going to match power output of a good 2-1 or 2-2 exhaust system. Motorcycle Performance Guide does not recommend drag pipes or porker 2" pipes for serious street engines, but the performance fix listed here will improve the power of your drag pipes. Results have been confirmed by dyno results.

There is a simple way to tell the maximum weight that your [motorcycle] is rated to carry by its manufacturer. Just subtract the wet weight (that is, the [motorcycle's] weight with the tank full of fuel and the other fluids topped up) from the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR). The GVWR is the maximum allowable total weight of motorcycle and its load, including riders, luggage and other debris.

There is not an off the shelf Micron muffler available directly for the CB1300 from the UK manufacturer but Australian distributors, AP Imports, have made their own connecting pipe to fit a race muffler to the CB1300 exhaust system. As you can see this works quite well. However, the specialised Micron item direct from the factory is expected in the next Australian shipment.

The three essential ingredients in any [motorcycle] restoration project are an engine, a frame and a manufacturer's parts book. The engine and frame are the heart of the project; the parts book, with its exploded diagrams, is the brains. Let's assume you have these three things. The first step is to haul the motor off to an engine shop that specializes in completely rebuilding your type of motor.

This document describes a method of changing so-called "tubeless" tires. Once upon a time, tires had inner tubes that held the air pressure required to keep tires rigid and support the weight of the vehicle. This was necessary back when wheels had spokes which necessitated many holes in the rim; now that most vehicles don't have spoked wheels, it's possible to get rid of the inner tube all together and simply have the tire itself hold the air. This makes life easier for a number of reasons, and is generally regarded as a Good Thing...