Recent content by SlowSteve

There looks to be plenty of meat in the clamp. So... buy the pegs, buy one of these bits from Home Depot: Milwaukee 13/16 in. S and D Black Oxide Drill Bit-48-89-2748 at The Home Depot screw the clamp up tight, drill out and job done. Ideally you'd do it in a pillar drill, but otherwisea...

Greg, A lot of cars/bikes are designed to be usable at higher octane rating than available at the pumps, with the effect that all fuel then becomes a compromise. A recent test in Bike magazine in the UK tested regular and high octane gas for fuel efficiency. For highly efficient bikes, like...

But..... It doesn't have an active MAF, and its FI, not carb.you'll get more air in but no more fuel and it'll just run badly. Edit. Also, the engine only does 6500 and is only displacing a very small amount of exhaust fumes. It'd need to either be a tiny turbo or a fiendishly expensive...

Worth pointing out a couple of things here. UK gallons and US gallons are different. A US gallon is 21% smaller, so 30mpg in the US is more efficient than 30mpg in uk/Europe. Next, US fuel is very low octane compared to European fuel. 91octane is a high end fuel, at least in Georgia where I...

Off topic I know, but for the current season of formula 1 it works out a bit closer to $5million per 0.1 seconds. Probably a good chunk more than that if its mechanical grip, but that 10th of a second is worth more than aerodynamic grip, as you can use it at all tracks. Put a different way, for...

Beemerphile, The 800 doesn't like rubbish fuel, but there are formal mods, supported by BMW, that you can make that will let it happily run on 76 octane fuel - like you get in milk bottles in the middle of no-where. Well..... if not "happily" then "acceptably". My guess is that these...

I completely understand that you guys don't want to talk "Them vs Us" politics, and I have to say I agree with that. However as a British guy looking in from the outside ( and someone who is in the US 1 week in 4 ) it does seem odd that the focus is still on the furlough, and that even that...

Jessie. It is fuel injected, but it has no MAF sensor and its already near as damn it at stoichometric maximum. If you bored/stroked it its just run so rich it'd choke. Add in that the 270 degree firing order is damped to exactly the piston size and its almost as though its a bike...

UK newspapers are strongly suggesting that up to 5 off duty police officers and more Corrections Officers were part of the gang. Would seem that the city internal affairs department are investigating an undercover cop in the group and a number of others handed themselves in when that became public.

Ummm..... Is it just me or does it make the bike look like an 80's racing 2-stroke? Could well be me. I like the design, but I always associate small noisy pipes with 2-strokes. If they were 3x the size, I would like them a lot.

This is why, whether I'm on 2 wheels or 4 wheels, I always always always stay out of the way of large groups of bikes. Whether it's the Harleys in the image above - note that theres about 15 of them within the Two Second Rule, let alone that they look like scary guys, the hooners attacking an...

For us across the pond, we do look at the situation as a little odd. One of the top 2 most powerful countries in the world and your pulling yourselves to pieces and no one is in the streets demanding action..... However, right now this stuff is internal..... It only affects you guys. 18th...

That front fender extender looks very shiny to be carbon. Are you sure it's not patterned polycarbonate?

If it's being produced to fit under the A* license then it needs to be at least 595cc - already done, and over 53hp - so only need to go up a fraction. The A1/A2/A/A* license is, I believe a european thing, rather than just a UK think, and while it's a pain to go through it, it keeps younger...

Humidity can definately be a factor, but it's not all the same accross the UK. I work about 40 miles from home. For Brits, I live in York and work in Bradford ( no jokes please....). Bradford is half way up a (small) mountain range called the Penines, where as York is at Sea level. The...