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Was he wearing a magic helmet or is this just like crashing into the ground at what speed (I'm assuming he landed on his head)?

I used to have a business selling HID kits which I specifically designed for motorcycles. The kits you show, like virtually all HID kits on the market are not designed for motorcycles but for cars. Many people who sell these kits know little about motorcycles or which specific kits (HID...

You don't have to change the fork oil (I'm 12 1/2 stone and have kept the original oil. The rebound seems fine to me: quick return with no bounce): just take the tops off the forks and slowly remove the old springs (coat hanger job) so that the oil runs back into the forks, then pop the new...

From personal experience: Rennetec stuff I've found to be of a poorer quality and ill fitting and their engine bars don't protect tank or upper fittings. Triumph Dresser bars are completely useless as they fold up and dig into your engine casing even with slow speed drops. Again, from...

I've bitten the bullet and bought a NH steering damper from my friend who's just sold his 120,000 mile Bonnie (as a shop run around for a local Triumph dealer) minus his custom parts. I hope this will sort the Roadrider wobble though I'm apprehensive that I'm now making mods (steering damper)...

All motorcycles should be black.

Hinkley Bonnevilles have balancing shafts that are used to tune these bikes for enough 'feel' to know the engine's running, so bicycle inner tubes are not required to damp vibration. If you do need to do this, there is something fundamentally wrong with your motorcycle or someone has sold you...

Here we go again: more personal insults used as a put-down in support of your clear emotional need to believe in the ideological certainty that any particular claimed 'scientific fact' is right for now and ever more, especially if it appears to confirm your belief in your superior knowledge and...

Speed3Chris, I find your sarcasm used as a substitute for cogent argument (which I find a little frustrating but mostly sad) and claims based on static tests made by using machinery calibrated to mathematical theory a poor substitute for first hand real experience: I wonder whether the clear...

I've already said: first hand experience: If it has wings, feathers, webbed feet and quacks, it's a duck; if I can hear the increased howl of air rushing through the airbox and my bike revs and pulls substantially harder so that it puts a bigger smile on my face, the bike's developing much...

Where's the solid evidence for this?

Obviously Triumph's figures are given as measurements at the crank. They are either lying about increased output with TORs or this is about 75bhp for my 865cc at the crank. Suck it and see first hand experience clearly shows that any calculation that comes up with a 1bhp increase for pulling...

Reading speeds at different revs in standard top gear on my 865 indicates a potential top speed in the neighbourhood of 120-125mph in top gear on the rev limiter. But of course the faster you go the harder the engine has to work against wind resistance to reach this potential top speed. I have...

It has a spray attachment.

You have to read between the lines sometimes, Speed3Chris: a 'highish pressure hose' means a garden hose attached to a bathroom tap. I have absolutely no doubt that this gives less water pressure and ingression than riding through a rain storm at 70-80mph, after which I decided to coat all...

You're right: I've washed my de-snorkeled bike with a highish pressure hose without any problems. I'll give it a go and get a Uni-filter for the next service. I'm chuffed that your experiment shows the biggest jump in airflow comes from pulling the superfluous snorkel, without having to spend...

If I'm sensible and slow down in pouring rain I should be alright. So that's me standing by the bike kicking it somewhere in Wiltshire.

Good, practical, inventive, Factual information we've been looking for, Aussie T. You're a genius mate! As I've pulled the snorkel, any chance of chucking some water at this and telling me whether I'm going to break down with a soggy paper filter on the way to holiday Cornwall in the predicted...

The extra 75cc of the standard 865 gives an extra 5hp and 5ft.lbs torque over the standard 790.

I've found that you pay a price for lighter, nimbler handling with Roadriders: they are unstable at 80mph+ Other riders have experienced the same problem of high speed wobble, heading towards a tank slapper, with several sets of Roadriders. I took the first set I had fitted back to the shop...

That's cos I'm lexdystic

OEM break lines are braided steel. they don't look it as they are covered in plastic. I found this out when I asked my Triumph mechanic about fitting braided lines and he told me that the original lines are braided. I wonder if all the after market suppliers of 'upgraded break lines' know...

After slowly fishing out an old spring (to let oil drip back in the fork) with a coat hangar, I found that it was very difficult screwing the end cap back on against the pressure of my new longer Ikon spring and 12mm spacer. Then I discovered that one of the heads on a four head cross shaped...