motocross tech

With the EFS System just a wave of a hand would activate your Roll-Offs, but then so would a passing cloud or throwing them in your gearbag
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Motocross has seen barrel grips, hex grips, fin grips, curved grips and octopus grips, but none as unusual as the Jones ball grip
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If you take the same material used in a 7/8-inch aluminum bar and make a 1-1/8-inch bar, the larger bar will be 2.1 times stiffer and 1.7 times stronger. Why? Because stiffness increases to the third power and strength to the second power…
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The bike that never was, was at the very least a clay mock-up and there was a working mule that Kyle Lewis tested in secret
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When are motocross bikes going to get fly-by-wire throttles? Let's hope that never happens
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How to keep the fuel tank where it is, but put the air filter there also
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The Horst Leitner-designed PBH, Scott, ADB four-stroke that refused to die
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The Swiss-made Heckel plastic boot got there first, but they were too new and too radical, The second wave of plastic boots came five yeards later.
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Suspension set-up advice on a 12-year old KTM four-stroke is a rare commodity
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Designed by Anders Persson, who also designed the popular Hallman Flip-Up visor, but you couldn't actually see through it
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"Do you think the 2022 KTM 125SX might pump out the same horsepower as my 2003 YZ134?"
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In 1979, the FIM passed a rule stating that rear number plates had to be moved rearwards so that the riders’ legs would not cover up the numbers and this is what happened
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Not all mud is created equal; there is sloppy mud, oatmeal mud, tacky mud and wet mud—each requires a different approach
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Either term could be used when describing an engine’s torque without being incorrect, but one is actually correct
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Motocross pants do not use the hidden elastic belt of the original Jaymar-Ruby design, but instead a version of it
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"My 2020 Husqvarna FC350’s plastic subframe cracked on the bottom mounting hole — is this common?"
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"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
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The SuperSkin idea was simple. It was based on human skin. When your skin hits the ground at an oblique angle, it slides. The SuperSkin helmet used this same organic strategy.
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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.
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With an electric water pump, the coolant’s flow is not based on the centrifugal force of the engine—an electric water pump is wide open full-time
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Since there is nothing to push against when up in the air, how can rider change an upward or downward arc?
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Nuts are designed to be taken on and off, so you should expect nuts to come off on their own accord occasionally
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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
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A slipper clutch disengages the clutch when you chop the throttle, but you still have to pull the clutch in to start, shift or stop. Conversely, an auto-clutch frees the rider from ever having to touch the clutch lever.
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It was assumed that the Dunlop MX3S combo had been discontinued when the Dunlop MX33 was introduced, this wasn’t completely true
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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The innermost secret of making a light motorcycle is to add more "hollow."
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