Motorcycle Repair & Sport Bike Maintenance
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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.
Ask the Geek: Change Your Own Tires Ask the Geek: Change Your Own Tires
You can change your own tires with some basic tools and ingenuity...
 
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...
 
Setting Static Sag Setting Static Sag
One of the most important suspension settings is static sag-the amount your bike's suspens...
 
Widened Stock Wheels | Going Wide Widened Stock Wheels | Going Wide
In a perfect world, we'd walk to our climate controlled garage every year-sometime after t...
 
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...
 
Ask the Geek: Clutch Fluid Replacement Ask the Geek: Clutch Fluid Replacement
Dear Geek:
 
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...
 
Michelin Macadam 100X Motorcycle Tires Michelin Macadam 100X Motorcycle Tires
From Michelin's press material:Michelin Macadam 100XSUCCESSOR TO THE POPULAR MACADAM 90X w...
 
Street vs. Race Street vs. Race
We know what you're thinking: Those namby-pamby street tires are for weenies, and the DOT...
 
Motorcycle Tire Guide Motorcycle Tire Guide
A compilation of tire-related articles from past issues, and press information for each ti...
 
Motorcycle Tire Guide Motorcycle Tire Guide
Manufacturer info on tires and related articles
 
The Recipe The Recipe
While tire technology may appear to be converging on a single ideal as far as sizing is co...
 
Does Size Matter Does Size Matter
Those low-profile 190-series tires sure look gnarly on the back of a sportbike, and we've...
 
Decipher the Codes Decipher the Codes
Sometimes it seems as if there should be a codebook to understand all of the information o...
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