Is the in-line four cylinder motor about to become the most developed engine for performance motorcycles? BMW’s choice for this platform and Yamaha’s development of their cross-plane crankshaft engine are two obvious points. What if either of those manufacturers combine their strategies with something similar to the Horex’s staggered piston arrangement? The Horex 6 cylinder [...]
Motorcycle Technology
Every now and then, a post on The Kneeslider misses the point, quite a few readers seem to misunderstand what was meant and the post about high tech parts is a good illustration. In that post the focus was on the potentially serious, or at least inconvenient, issue of electronic parts failing years after a [...]
Can you fix it? Your motorcycle won’t run, what are the chances you can get it going? What if the bike in question has the highest technology available, perfectly metered fuel injection, precisely controlled electronic ignition, variable valve timing and throttle by wire, have your chances increased or decreased? Suppose, the company that made it [...]
What we have here, fellas, is the ACE Fireball 535 Royal Enfield high performance engine kit. You take your stock, single cylinder Royal Enfield Bullet and with the addition of this kit, turn it into a real, … well, fireball. No, you’re not going to challenge any of the boy racers out there, but compared [...]
