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As a rule of thumb, try not to use threadlock; instead, rely on the proper torque specs from your owner’s manual. If you must use threadlock, use the appropriate grade
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As a rule of thumb, try not to use threadlock; instead, rely on the proper torque specs from your owner’s manual. If you must use threadlock, use the appropriate grade
For reasons unknown to man, Kawasakispec’ed 0.40 kg/mm fork springs IN 1997. Too soft. We swapped to a stiffer set of 0.42 fork springs
How to keep your EZ-Up from setting a new altitude record across the pits and into the hood of the track owner’s Mercedes-Benz
“My 2020 Husqvarna FC350’s plastic subframe cracked on the bottom mounting hole.”
On the eve of Supercross splitting from the FIM, we explain how the FIM got here — it goes back to 1984 and came to blows in 2001. The battle over money cost a lot of money
Think of the clicker adjusters on your fork and shock as water faucets. Most faucets use a common mechanism, typically a screw, to impede or expedite the flow of water. Faucets control fluid flow.
How up-to-date are you on the float valve, lift-height component and trampoline shim on the new generation of WP off-road and two-stroke forks?
The innermost secret of making a light motorcycle is to add more “hollow.”
KTM’s braided steel rear brake hoses is value added, but it is still vulnerable to freak events
Not all mud is created equal; there is sloppy mud, oatmeal mud, tacky mud and wet mud—each requires a different approach
We assume that since you are asking, you don’t want the high-priced specialty tickets. Here are the bare bones prices.
Nuts are designed to be taken on and off, so you should expect nuts to come off on their own accord occasionally
If you need strange solution to fix a common problem, the problem is you
Will Kayaba fork seals fit in WP AER 48mm forks? My dealer says, “No.”
Tony Cairoli can only shift four times, but Cooper Webb gets to shift five times
When air gets heated, the molecules start to vibrate and bump into each other, increasing the space around each molecule — sort of like Justin Bieber concert
The CR250 was a storied machine, from Steve McQueen to Rick Johnson to Johnny O’Mara to Jermy McGrath, it was omnipotent—2007 was its last hurrah
“My spring has two pink marks on the shock spring. According to the manual, this means a 5.5-rate, unequal pitch, steel spring.” Wrong!
The Yamaha YZ250GF gearbox ratios are always in the owner’s manual
Whenever a part fails on a new motorcycle, the company rep always tell us, “That’s never happened before.”
The weak link in any motocross racers life is the sudden arrival of a oil gusher…coming from your forks
Riders in the past never came into the pits after a moto and screamed that they needed to change their fork springs—and air pressure is just a fork spring
Well, actually it is a melting kind of thing and a lost art in the motocross world. You can get more life out of old rubber with a tire groover
Two-stroke fuel injection only uses the throttle body to meter the amount of air, the fuel is injected into the engine at the transfer ports.
Lock-on or bolt-on? It is a conundrum that come down to convenience versus comfort and complexity versus simplicity
Have you ever heard of the “”AMA Four-Stroke Exemption Rule?” Well, you can forget it1
There are two kinds of automatic transmission fluid—one was home brewed fix for a slipping clutch, the other made your clutch slip
Either term could be used when describing an engine’s torque without being incorrect, but one is actually correct
You can buy a complete kit in a variety of displacements or simply bore your existing cylinder and have it replated
When are motocross bikes going to get fly-by-wire throttles? Let’s hope that never happens