Cycle World has put together a great little feature on Attack Performance’s wild card CRT effort in MotoGP for the upcoming season. Most interesting is Richard Stanboli’s “odd-fire” engine which “works like a three-cylinder” but is based on the inline-four … Continued
Jeans? Check. T-Shirt? Check. Sneakers? Check. Incompetent operation of a liter bike? Check. What we’ve got here is the perfect recipe for a great crash, and this ZX-10R rider does not disappoint, failing to miss a trailer making a right … Continued
Unlike previous electronic steering damper designs, this new Ohlins unit fitted to the otherwise-unchanged 2013 Kawasaki ZX-10R uses acceleration and deceleration data, in addition to speed, to inform damping rates. The idea here is simple — propensity for instability increases not … Continued
MotoGP-style gyrocams — which stay upright as the bike leans — are helping to bring a new dimension to onboard bike videos. Somehow, the counterintuitive perspective better conveys the experience not only of leaning, but the rest of the ride … Continued
Who’s qualified to review a liter bike? Grant and I can ride them pretty hard on both road and track, take nice photos and write some nice words. Others can throw down impressive lap times. But no one, absolutely no … Continued
Make no mistake, the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R has one goal and one goal only: to dethrone the BMW S1000RR from its liter bike throne. As far as evaluations of its ability to do so go, top speed is utterly irrelevant … Continued
Five seconds is all it takes for this cop to hot-wire a CBR. A GSX-R isn’t much harder. Snap the steering lock, plug in a “pigtail,” and off you go. This video, which appears to be from 2007 (judging by the … Continued