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Motorcycle Repair & Maintenance

Sport Rider’s Tech Tips section showcases articles about motorcycle repair and maintenance, sportbike tuning and service procedures including sport bike tire change, ride height settings, fairing and bodywork, chain and sprocket adjustments, engine, forks, wiring, brakes and brake pads, and more.
Technicalities: Compression Damping Technicalities: Compression Damping
In the March issue's "Technicalities," we started to delve into the "Witches' Brew" of sus...
 
Technicalities: Rebound Damping Technicalities: Rebound Damping
Onward and inward. The February '96 Technicalities article ["Suspension Overview: Back to ...
 
Technicalities: Suspension Overview: Back to Basics Technicalities: Suspension Overview: Back to Basics
Rocket Science, voodoo, black art...suspension in general, and damping specifically, have ...
 
Technicalities: Suspension Hardware Terms Technicalities: Suspension Hardware Terms
People often ask about the definitions of terms regarding suspension. We decided to compil...
 
Motorcycle Suspension Guide Motorcycle Suspension Guide
Recommended motorcycle suspension settings from the Sport Rider staff
 
Technicalities: Cartridge Forks Technicalities: Cartridge Forks
I am often asked the question, "Why cartridge forks? What's so great about them?" Riders k...
 
Technicalities: Spring Rate and Preload Technicalities: Spring Rate and Preload
Commonly asked questions like, "What's the difference between spring rate and preload?" an...
 
Technicalities: Damping rod forks and the Race Tech Gold Valve Emulator Technicalities: Damping rod forks and the Race Tech Gold Valve Emulator
In the August '94 "Technicalities" we discussed the question, "Why cartridge forks?" We an...
 
Art & Science: Shift Points Spreadsheet Art & Science: Shift Points Spreadsheet
Right-click and download the spreadsheet here: shift.xls (Now updated to rev. 2 with the ...
 
The Five-Percent Difference The Five-Percent Difference
In our previous DOT-race tire test we used 180-sized tires exclusively on the 6.0-inch rea...
 
Going Wide: Widening Your Stock Rims Going Wide: Widening Your Stock Rims
In a perfect world, we'd walk to our climate controlled garage every year-sometime after t...
 
The Rubber Plant - Dunlop Factory Tour The Rubber Plant - Dunlop Factory Tour
While some sport riders only consider the state of their tires when a frayed cord peeks ou...
 
RAM AIR: What's It Worth? RAM AIR: What's It Worth?
Why are Kawasakis so damn fast? Anyone who's experienced the giggling hard-core buzz of a ...
 
Body Steering vs. Counter Steering: Part One Body Steering vs. Counter Steering: Part One
Hear that? It's a great big can of worms being opened, with the worms all asking, "how doe...
 
Art & Science-Body Steering vs. Counter Steering: Part Two Art & Science-Body Steering vs. Counter Steering: Part Two
As Part Two of our continuing investigative series into counter steering and body steering...
Ford Ranger Research
Ford Ranger Explore the new Ranger and examine the various features it has to offer. The L4 standard engine in the Ranger gives you 143 horsepower with an estimated 24 mpg. It comes with a standard Manual transmission, and 2WD drivetrain. The Mitsubishi Lancer and the Audi TT are other vehicles that might interest you.