The Kneeslider

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Motorcycles from China

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Chinese motorcycles are coming, whether or not anyone is ready for them. Those soft sales figures many manufacturers have been reporting may be a sign of things to come if the Chinese have their way. China offers an enormous market for anything you might be selling but tariffs on imported goods make selling into that market extremely challenging if not impossible. The potential … [Read more...]

Is there a Suzuki pattern here?

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If you are following the World Superbike championship, you might notice a strange similarity to the AMA Superbikes. Troy Corser is dominating and he is riding a GSX-R1000. Corser won this weekend's doubleheader much like Mladin over here. It's not all bike by any means, talent and skill are paramount, but if your talent and skill are high AND you happen to be riding a well … [Read more...]

Mladin again

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Race number two at Barber today was another start to finish lead for Mat Mladin, just like yesterday. He led every lap of both Superbike races, yesterday and today! Hodgson was second. It's beginning to look like the Suzuki GSXR1000 is more bike than any of the others by just a little bit. Combine that with Mladin's skill and it could be a long season for the other riders. … [Read more...]

Mladin is good and fast!

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Barber Motorsports Park was the latest scene of the competitive destruction wrought by Mat Mladin. Hodgson came in fourth. Suzukis were one, two, three. … [Read more...]

700hp Hayabusa and DynoJet limits

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For no particular reason, I was thinking about that 700 horsepower Hayabusa and I thought I would look up the dynos that Dynojet offers and see what they can handle. Looks like they better rethink the capacity of those models, they only go to 750hp. Yeah, ... only. Next year, they might come up short. The Kneeslider: Suzuki Hayabusa for sale … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Design book

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You may have noticed this book that was over on the left, "Motorcycle Design and Technology" by Gaetano Cocco. This is the new paperback version of a really good book mentioned back when we were talking about a sportbike buildoff. They have the table of contents and some of the pages online so you can get an idea of what's in it. With most new sportbikes, you have so many … [Read more...]