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Tech: How To
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Garage Talk
5252: The Magic Number Horsepower and torque explained So you just did a bunch of high performance engine work to your ride and everybody wants to know how much horsepower your scooter’s got. Although it’s become the benchmark when people talk about how much power their bike makes, horsepower isn’t the whole story. In a [...]
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ECTA Speed Trials With S&S Cycle
STORY AND PHOTOS BY WARNER RILEY After a successful multiyear run of top speed racing at Maxton, North Carolina, the East Coast Timing Association (ECTA) relocated its operations for the 2012 season to an airport near Wilmington, Ohio, located Southeast of Dayton. The new facility is similar to Maxton in that it features a one-mile [...]
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Parasitic Loads: Assault on a battery
Believe it or not, your battery can be dying right before your eyes, and you don’t even know it. The culprit: parasitic loads. Parasitic loads are very small charges on the battery—so small that the harm won’t be noticed right away. These loads are typically of the order of a few milliamps (or mA—one mA [...]
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Twist It! More Torque
The Bump: Twist It! An Easy Fix for more torque. Originally featured in October 2009 IronWorks [smugmug url="http://hattonbrown.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=8511608_TcES3&format=rss200" imagecount="100" start="1" num="200" thumbsize="Th" link="lightbox" captions="false" sort="false" window="true" smugmug="false" size="L"]
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Self Service
The Bump: Self Service Originally featured in October 2009 IronWorks [smugmug url="http://hattonbrown.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=7459627_ZW3fs&format=rss200" imagecount="100" start="1" num="200" thumbsize="Th" link="lightbox" captions="false" sort="false" window="true" smugmug="false" size="L"]
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Previewing The 2010 Bikes In The Sept/Oct IronWorks
In the September/October issue of IronWorks our resident speed demon-test rider extraordinaire and Editor Dain Gingerelli takes us for test rides on a few of the 2010 motorcycles. First off he tries out a new 2010 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide, that’s right a CVO Street Glide. Having ridden with Dain I know he put that [...]
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How To Kickstart By Bert Baker in Sept/Oct IronWorks
In the Sept/Oct issue of Ironworks, Bert Baker gives us a rundown on how to kickstart your bike. Now in case some of you don’t know you use to have to work to get your bike started. Back in the days there was no little button you pushed and magically your bike would fire up. [...]
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A Tire Tale
Tires are probably the most frequently replaced parts of a motorcycle. I know I usually have to get a new front tire and two or three back tires every year. I thought I knew tires until I got a sneak peak at Margie Siegal’s expose about tires in the July issue of IronWorks. After reading [...]
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