Motorcycles
Two-wheeled culture — sportbikes, customs, and cafe racers.
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Two Wheels, One Obsession
The connection between motorcycle, rider and community starts with the machine you can use and care for.
Chain, tires, valves: the jobs that decide how long a bike lasts
Bikes rarely die of old age. They die of a $15 job deferred until it turns into a $900 one, and the chain is where it always starts.
Why a triple feels different from a four, and a twin from both
Two bikes with identical horsepower can feel like different sports. The reason is firing intervals, and it decides which one you should buy.
What your bike's IMU is doing while you're busy riding
Six axes, hundreds of samples a second, and one very fast opinion about whether you meant to do that. Here is where the safety net ends.
You already countersteer. Most riders can't explain how
Push the right bar and the bike goes right. Riders who understand why have a lever to pull in the corner they entered too fast.
Nobody should learn to ride on a 600 supersport
The argument has almost nothing to do with top speed. It's about where the power lives, what a dropped fairing costs, and how riders actually get hurt.
The cafe racer trap, and how to build something you ride
Bare tank, welded seat hoop, pod filters, untouched suspension. It photographs beautifully and gets ridden twenty minutes a month.
Ten minutes with a used bike tells you almost everything
It just needs a battery. Never dropped, only laid down. Every ad runs on the same four sentences and none of them survive a cold start.
Riding gear, from bare minimum to the stuff that lasts
A $90 jacket and a $250 jacket look identical on the hanger. They stop looking identical at 40mph, about one second into a slide.
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