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Tech: How To
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Parasitic Loads: Assault on a battery
09 Nov 2009 by mstemp / No Comments
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
26 Oct 2009 by Snakebit Sam / No Comments
The Bump: Twist It! An Easy Fix for more torque. Originally featured in October 2009 IronWorks
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Self Service
26 Oct 2009 by Snakebit Sam / No Comments
The Bump: Self Service Originally featured in October 2009 IronWorks
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Previewing The 2010 Bikes In The Sept/Oct IronWorks
06 Aug 2009 by Snakebit Sam / No Comments
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
04 Aug 2009 by Snakebit Sam / 1 Comment
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
13 May 2009 by Snakebit Sam / No Comments
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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Cure (?) For Rusted Parts
05 May 2009 by Snakebit Sam / 4 Comments
Any of us who have ever worked on old bikes that have been subjected to the weather can attest that sometimes nuts and bolts get rusted together. Many times your knuckles get busted before the nut does. Here is an interesting item that was stolen from a technical magazine and passed along to someone who [...]
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Kick Start My Heart
12 Mar 2009 by Snakebit Sam / 5 Comments
Here at IronWorks we got a letter or an email from a subscriber who thinks we ought to have a section on how to start the old “Ironhead” Sportsters. You know those Sporties that came with only a kickstarter, no easy button on the handlebars. There’s an old saying that the bike starts with one [...]
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