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Brake fluid must be thin enough to respond instantly, be compatible with your brake system’s components & be able to remain consistent in temperatures from 500 degrees to freezing
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Brake fluid must be thin enough to respond instantly, be compatible with your brake system’s components & be able to remain consistent in temperatures from 500 degrees to freezing
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
When you are talking about a 1984 versus a 1983 Honda CR125 there are four obvious clues
The first KTM 350SXF in 2011 wasn’t a very good bike, but it got very good after that.
Tim Gajser just won his fifth World Championship, but he still runs number 243. Don’t they have a #1 plate run like the AMA?
“My 2020 Husqvarna FC350’s plastic subframe cracked on the bottom mounting hole — is this common?”
When air gets heated, the molecules start to vibrate and bump into each other, increasing the space around each molecule — sort of like AJustin Bieber concert
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” We didn’t know that Greek mathematician Archimedes had ever raced
Forget about emulating Eli Tomac—think of yourself as John Force. Twist the throttle to the stops and leave it on as long as possible, you will go faster
Slipper clutches are not autos, but auto clutches slip and you can do the same thing with your left hand
When are motocross bikes going to get fly-by-wire throttles? Let’s hope that never happens
Pick and choose exactly where titanium bolts can do the most good and forego the rest
Either term could be used when describing an engine’s torque without being incorrect, but one is actually correct
The rubber dampers are underneath the plate that the six posts stick through and act as a cush hub to take the jolt out of the drive train.
The AMA has strict rules against Italian bikes, French riders and them paying for drug, sound or fuel tests
A quick and easy primer on the ins an outs of installing steering head races
“How did you do? I went 5-4, or as the AMA likes to say I went 16 + 18 for 34”
This is the magic number…in America
The joke “sansabelt” reference is for Velcro straps than can be cinched down to change size-34 pants to size-32 pants with just a tug
The AMA doesn’t think that this is a violation of the AMA rules, but that is because the AMA officials have never actually read the AMA rulebook
Motocross tires are measured using the Shore Type A durometer scale — The higher the durometer number the harder the rubber compound
Hinson makes a steel clutch basket for riders who never want to worry about the lifespan of their clutch baskets
Since there is nothing to push against when up in the air, how can rider change an upward or downward arc?
“I’ve been looking at getting a newer bike. I’m thinking about the KTM 350SXF, the new YZ250 or a KTM 250SX two-stroke”
Sucks it in, speeds it up & turns it into power
Nuts are designed to be taken on and off, so you should expect nuts to come off on their own accord occasionally
Peak measures the highest horsepower, but often a pipe, piston, cam or mod makes larger gains, compared to the stock engine, at different parts of the powerband
Both a slipper clutch and an autoclutch will work on a motocross bike, but their best and intended uses are for Supermoto (slipper) and technical enduro riding (auto-clutch).
We like to entertain ourselves in ways that only a handful of people every really notice—but this week some did
The only tool you need to install the poorman’s steering damper is a wrench