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I had 2 Kristas installed by Clearwater last week. Although they would have fit under the fairing, they are big, and they would have had to have been mounted very high to keep the fender from hitting them, if the fork were to be fully compressed. Also, if mounted under and close to the...

I have a Super 10 but only have about 3,600 miles on it, maybe 250 of it off pavement. I like it. I have been riding motorcycles since 1965 and have been lucky enough to ride dozens of different bikes. Currently my smallest bike is a plated XR250R and my biggest a GL1800. In between are a...

Yikes, what a hornets nest! The whole point of any motorcycle is to make its rider happy. Just be happy with the way you do it. Of course racers are happy with fast reliable engines. But just to stir up another hornets nest: about breaking in aircraft engines - mechanics don't break in...

The main point of the break in is to seat the rings to cylinder wall. Little bits of metal will get scraped off until the seal is close to perfect. To a lesser extent this will also happen in the bottom end and the transmission. It is essential to do this right away. Race teams break in...

Just my 2 cents - Some helmets are quieter than others. Taking the helmet out of consideration, noise is caused by buffeting. Buffeting is cause by turbulence. This turbulence induced buffeting creates the low frequency, bass tone noise that is so annoying or even painful. Here's the proof...

This seems like a perfect project for the KISS principle. For a grand total of <$20 you could put 2 stick-on thermometers in separate locations for sun and shade ouside air temps. That way you would not even need to take your hand off the handlebar to toggle through the different readouts. OK...

I must be missing something on this thread. No matter whether Yamaha builds 100 or 100,000 of a given model of bike, they need to expend resources to create a service manual because their dealers' service departments need to have service manuals. Are the dealers charged less for a service...