Stories of the Daytona 200 and 50 years of Superbike Racing!
Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcastThe Daytona 200 has been the national motorcyclist's rite of spring, but it's more than just the 200--for much of the country it's the f...
8 Apr 1h 19min
Inside Ducati's Insane NEW 2027 SUPERLEGGERA Centenario! All the CARBON FIBER and 248 HP!
Ducati dropped a carbon-fiber bomb in the form of the 2027 Superleggera Centenario, the most exotic V-4 superbike from Borgo Panigale ever. Perhaps even more far out than the Ducati Desmosedici RR jus...
31 Mar 1h 7min
Motorcycle Rear Suspension and the Evolution of the Swingarm.
Listening to our listeners (and viewers), this topic came from you guys: Kevin and Mark take a look at motorcycle rear suspension starting with "all arm and no swing" rigid frames of the early days to...
25 Mar 1h 10min
WEIGHT TRANSFER and Motorcycle Handling--To wheelie or not?
How many ways have motorcycle designers gotten it wrong? So many! One of these was chasing an ultra-low center of gravity on motorcycles, only to find it made handling worse! How have we settled on 20...
18 Mar 1h 4min
MOTORCYCLE GEARBOXES EXPLAINED: Shifting, gear mesh, forks and more.
The motorcycle gearbox can be a great mystery but Kevin Cameron is here to help us all understand how it works. Why do we have six-speeds and constant mesh (mostly)? Kevin and Mark Hoyer also divert i...
11 Mar 1h 12min
BIG BANG! How Firing Order Can Change An Engine.
Honda made a big impression with its close-firing-order "big bang" NSR500 and became dominant in two-stroke 500cc Grand Prix racing through the 1990s, replacing the "screamer" engine. Other factories ...
4 Mar 1h 6min
Why did the "Normal" valve win? Poppet valves vs. Sleeve Valves vs. Rotary valves.
There have been many engine valve designs since the dawn of the internal combustion engine. What made poppet valves stick? (See what we did?) There were many other designs and some, like the sleeve va...
25 Feb 1h 9min
Four Banger: How the inline-four was inevitable for motorcycles.
The inline-four has many qualities that made it the performance engine format of choice for decades. Ride with Kevin and Mark as they talk about the origins of the inline-four and how we have explored...
18 Feb 57min
