Cycle World Podcast
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Join Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer for the weekly Cycle World podcast for lively conversations about motorcycles and the people who build and ride them. Cameron’s legendary knowledge and ability to describe highly technical subjects in ways that are easy to understand allies with Hoyer’s massive testing background and hands-on work in the CW garage.
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Origin and Evolution of the Superbike engine Starting with the Muzzy Kawasaki
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Motorcycle Purchase Decisions Are Emotional--Or Why we Fall for Styling
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Oil Pressure or Viscosity? How Engines are Lubricated and Synthetic vs. Conventional Oils
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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The Legendary Honda RC51 Beat Ducati at its own V-Twin Superbike Game
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May 27, 2026 |
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MotoGP 2027: Smaller Engines, Less Aero, More Thrills?! Thoughts on the New Era.
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May 20, 2026 |
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Rear Suspension Designs That Failed, and, of course, More!
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May 13, 2026 |
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Does a Longer Stroke Make More Torque?
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May 06, 2026 |
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What is a Beautiful Motorcycle?
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Unfit For Purpose: Birth of the Superbike, from local tracks to the world.
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The Tragedy of Motorcycle Aerodynamics
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Stories of the Daytona 200 and 50 years of Superbike Racing!
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Inside Ducati's Insane NEW 2027 SUPERLEGGERA Centenario! All the CARBON FIBER and 248 HP!
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Motorcycle Rear Suspension and the Evolution of the Swingarm.
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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WEIGHT TRANSFER and Motorcycle Handling--To wheelie or not?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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MOTORCYCLE GEARBOXES EXPLAINED: Shifting, gear mesh, forks and more.
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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BIG BANG! How Firing Order Can Change An Engine.
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Why did the "Normal" valve win? Poppet valves vs. Sleeve Valves vs. Rotary valves.
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Four Banger: How the inline-four was inevitable for motorcycles.
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Hello Sparky! History of Ignition, Spark! Open Flame! Hot Tube! What?!
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Why Steel Pistons and Cylinder Heads? Why Now?
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Torque! Tolerance! HOW HARD DO WE TURN THE WRENCH?! Feel? Force? Learn about tightening bolts.
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Why OVERHEAD CAMS and How Did WE GET HERE?
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Piston Rings! The Tiny Parts that Make Piston Engines Possible!
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Are Racers and Crew Chiefs Human? Inside the minds and talents of the world's best!
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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MORE Dream Bikes from the Mecum Las Vegas Auction 2026!
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Are HYBRID Motorcycles Dumb?
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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DREAM BIKES: Kevin & Mark's favorite Bikes from the Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction!
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Harley-Davidson Big Twin, Knucklehead to Now!
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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How MOTORCYCLES improved because of AIRCRAFT!
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Where did Norton Motorcycles come from and why do we love them so much?
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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EICMA! New Motorcycles From the Biggest Show of the Year! China, India, Japan, Baggers!
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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How Ducati history might have changed! The 60-year-old V-4 that never made production.
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The GREAT Dan Gurney: MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIAST and ENGINE DESIGNER! The 280-hp Moment-Canceling TWIN!
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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EMPIRE OF RPM: Learn How HONDA built its MOTORCYCLE BUSINESS ON REVS
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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How Exhaust Pipes MAKE POWER (or KILL IT!)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Makin' FLAMES! The ART and SCIENCE of mixing FUEL and AIR.
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Ninja! Kawasaki's brand within a brand and how it came to mean "Sportbike" to the masses.
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Fun With Materials: What are Motorcycles Made of and Why?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Yamaha V4 vs. Inline Four! Will a new engine design save Yamaha in MotoGP?
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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HOW FAST COULD WE GO?! What's making new motorcycles slower than they should be?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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SHAKE IT! Does Vibration Eat Horsepower?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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How has Honda Sold MORE THAN 100 MILLION SUPER CUBS?!
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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How Emissions Regulations Improved Motorcycles
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Ran when parked?! HOW TO GET AN OLD MOTORCYCLE RUNNING!
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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10 Crazy Cool Concept Bikes You Probably Don't Remember
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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CONSISTENCY IS EVERYTHING! Kevin Cameron gets molecular on Cyclic Variation. What?! Listen to learn!
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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INSIDE THE HOT ROOM! The magic in your motorcycle engine's combustion chamber.
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Do YOU know about these 7 (or so) STRANGE MOTORCYCLES that made it to market?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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GOING IT ALONE: When Kenny Roberts Quit Yamaha and Built his own MotoGP bikes FROM SCRATCH
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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SUZUKI in GRAND PRIX racing! Sheene, Schwantz, Gammas, the Suzuki Amazing GP Journey.
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Inside Legendary Honda V-4!
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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The Unlikely Success of Triumph's Modern Rebirth!
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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MORE "NEW" Tech that's actually really OLD!
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The Remarkable Endurance of the BMW Boxer--More than 100 Years of Flat-Twin
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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FABULOUS or FAILURE? The Harley-Davidson VR1000 Superbike.
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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V8 Airplane engine in a MOTORCYCLE! The Amazing Glenn Curtiss. Was his 136-mph speed record real?
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May 28, 2025 |
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The Single GREATEST Motorcycle HANDLING REVOLUTION: What's a FEATHERBED?
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Surprising Origins of the Harley-Davidson Softail!
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May 14, 2025 |
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"NEW" Technology You Didn't Know Was Really Old!
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May 07, 2025 |
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The rise of INDIAN Motorcycle in American V-Twins and the power of brand.
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Rider Aids: Electronic or otherwise! What ARE they, REALLY, and what were the first ones?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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How is DUCATI DOMINATING MotoGP and what secrets do the Italians have?
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Original SUPERBIKE: How the 1969 HONDA CB750 Changed Motorcycling Forever!
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Why was MAGNIFICENT Moto Guzzi 500cc V-8 Grand Prix Racing Motorcycle Killed in 1957?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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How the MODERN MOTORCYCLE is MADE: Good + Affordable!
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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MILLIONS of Harley-Davidson SPORTSTERs have been sold. Why?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The SECRETS of how ROYAL-ENFIELD is TAKING OVER the WORLD!
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The TOP 6(ish) MOTORCYCLES and TECHNOLOGY that changed everything!
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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CALIFORNIA HOT ROD: The V-twin Ducati that made the brand in America in the 1970s
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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The Modern In-line 4 Sportbike was invented 100 years ago! The story of Gilera and Rondine.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Widowmaker or Landmark Superbikes?! Kawasaki's Legendary 500cc & 750cc two-stroke Triples.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Brough Superior: Parts-Bin Specials or the Finest Motorcycles Ever Made?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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What if TWO-STROKE STREETBIKES SURVIVED?
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Alien Chassis Technology! Amazing Bimota motorcycles from the 1970s to today!
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Peter Egan Special Guest!
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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DREAM BIKES: Kevin and Mark make their top pics from the Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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HARLEY vs. TRIUMPH, the CALTECH WIND-TUNNEL, and the ACCIDENTAL birth of 750cc racing
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Honda's AMAZING Grand Prix Racers of the 1960s—From Scooters to World Championships!
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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GRAND PRIX GLORY: MV Agusta in World Championship racing from 1950s to the rise of the two-stroke!
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The LONG, STRANGE trip for the American Sportbike: All about BUELL!
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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STOP! All about BRAKES
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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How the TWO-STROKE EXPANSION CHAMBER WORKS and Where It Came From (call it Acoustic Supercharging)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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WHY Did Honda use an ELECTRIC SUPERCHARGER on its V3 Concept internal combustion MOTORCYCLE?
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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EVERYTHING about Honda's DOMINATING RS750 FLAT TRACK RACER of the 1980s
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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What is HANDLING? I know it when I feel it... Are there magic numbers that make a bike steer great?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Biggest motorcycle race of the year?! King Kenny Rides again at the AMAZING BARBER VINTAGE FESTIVAL!
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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FAVORITE TOOLS: The most INTERESTING and USEFUL tools in our shop!
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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STILL SMOKING! Yamaha’s RD350 Giant KILLER two-stroke of the 1970s
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The (TWO)-STROKE of Genius: HONDA NSR500, BIG BANG, SCREAMER, the ultimate Grand Prix Bike.
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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OUTLAWED! The WHOLE story behind the Indian FTR750 flat-track racer.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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What's up with SYNTHETIC fuels, ETHANOL and MOTORCYCLES?! (ENERGY STORAGE)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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THE FIRST ADVENTURE BIKE: Where'd the Legendary BMW GS come from and where's it going?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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JUST HOT ENOUGH! Combustion heat to tire heat to radiators, oil cooling and more: Heat Management!
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The DIRT TRACKER that WOULDN'T DIE: Harley-Davidson XR-750 introduced 50 years ago (Still Can Win)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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What is V-SQUARED damping and how YOUR SUSPENSION really WORKS!
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The WEIRDNESS of METALS is what makes them so GREAT—MELTY, MALLEABLE, M-AWESOME
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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VALVE FLOAT! Mysteries of cam profiles! The intricacy of CONTROLLING VALVES in engines!
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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KTM's massive TRANSFORMATION from QUIRKY dirt bike maker to GLOBAL MOBILITY company
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Why the TELESCOPIC FORK keeps WINNING—Alternative front suspension FAILS!
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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"50-mile Engines": TOURING Bikes Turned Into RACE WINNERS!—BMW's Impossible 1970s AMA Superbikes.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The History of Ducati: A State of Permanent Revolution
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The Legendary Kawasaki Z1—FIRST inline-four SUPERBIKE?
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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OVAL PISTON Hondas: All about The MYTHICAL NR500 RACER and $60,000 NR750 Streetbike (Failures?)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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AIR! ALL about AIR and how we get it TO FLOW into ENGINES
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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How Honda Gold Wing INVENTED and DOMINATED Luxury Touring for 50 years.
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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SPEED DEMON Yamaha TZ750 had TOO MUCH of EVERYTHING!
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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CRAZY SUSPENSION and UNREAL PERFORMANCE. The AMAZING BRITTEN V1000 motorcycle CONQUERED the world!
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May 29, 2024 |
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Are RULES KILLING Racing?
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May 22, 2024 |
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HOW has Harley-Davidson sold MILLIONS of MOTORCYCLES?
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May 15, 2024 |
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The MYSTERIES of CARBURETOR tuning EXPLAINED!
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May 08, 2024 |
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How the AMAZING GSX-R750 Became the SOUL of SUZUKI and Changed Motorcycling
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May 01, 2024 |
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What's BEST? All About Motorcycle FINAL DRIVES: Chain, Belt, + Shaft.
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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How to BREAK IN your Motorcycle ENGINE: What's BEST?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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How and why MOTORCYCLE parts BREAK
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The SECRETS of great MOTORCYCLE TIRES
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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What OIL do I use in my MOTORCYCLE?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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What SECRETS make a GREAT motorcycle engine?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The EPIC Yamaha YZF-R1 CHANGED EVERYTHING when it was introduced in 1998.
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Why Ducati's RIPPER single-cylinder Hypermotard is BETTER than we expected.
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The TRUTH about Automatic Motorcycles and DCT
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The CRAZY TALENT that tuners and crew chiefs have in top-level racing
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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The incredible MIND of A Professional Racer
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The TRUTH About Moto America and King Of The Baggers
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The most INFLUENTIAL motorcycle books
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The ORIGINS of the Parallel Twin
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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How the Suzuki Hayabusa Changed Motorcycling
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Origins of SUPERBIKE racing and Kevin Cameron’s Superbike book
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Feb 15, 2024 |