Why the TELESCOPIC FORK keeps WINNING—Alternative front suspension FAILS!
Moving the problems! Alternative front suspension has some advantages over the telescopic fork that's on nearly every motorcycle made today—front swingarms, Hossack, RADD, Troll Engineering, girder—bu...
25 Heinä 202450min
"50-mile Engines": TOURING Bikes Turned Into RACE WINNERS!—BMW's Impossible 1970s AMA Superbikes.
The amazing journey by Butler & Smith BMW to build championship-winning superbikes out of BMW flat-twin touring bikes in the 1970s. First 750cc, then 900cc, we look at how BMW won the 1976 AMA Superbi...
17 Heinä 202455min
The History of Ducati: A State of Permanent Revolution
Ducati is more than just a motorcycle brand to many, bordering on religion—or as its detractors might say: a cult. The CULT OF DESMO! Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer star...
11 Heinä 20241h 8min
The Legendary Kawasaki Z1—FIRST inline-four SUPERBIKE?
Motorcycle minds were blown when the 1973 Kawasaki Z1 debuted with its 903cc engine, double overhead cams and burly styling—and Team Green's four-cylinder superbike was born—in rootbeer brown! Did 40-...
3 Heinä 20241h 2min
OVAL PISTON Hondas: All about The MYTHICAL NR500 RACER and $60,000 NR750 Streetbike (Failures?)
Honda's NR500 GP racer and NR750 endurance racer and 1994 $60,000 streetbike launched a million dreams but were failures in the grand scheme. The bikes were beautiful innovations and technical strivin...
26 Kesä 202452min
AIR! ALL about AIR and how we get it TO FLOW into ENGINES
We're taking a flyer on this one but we couldn't resist talking about AIR! True to form, Technical Editor Kevin Cameron starts talking about us breathing and how gravity holds air on the earth ("Which...
19 Kesä 202456min
How Honda Gold Wing INVENTED and DOMINATED Luxury Touring for 50 years.
Dynasty? Franchise? Legend? Yes! The Honda Gold Wing was born "naked" in 1975 as Honda's first liquid-cooled model. The entire Cycle World road test issue said "Gold Wing" only one time but now it's t...
12 Kesä 202453min
SPEED DEMON Yamaha TZ750 had TOO MUCH of EVERYTHING!
The legendary Yamaha TZ750 two-stroke racer was a bike three-time world champ Kenny Roberts said had "too much of everything." Technical Editor Kevin Cameron knows a lot of things about a lot of thing...
5 Kesä 202458min
