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10 Silverstone Great Britain 2012 MotoGP
5 Mugello Italy 2011 MotoGP
12 Mugello Italy 2011 MotoGP
26 Catalunya 2011 MotoGP
35 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2011 MotoGP
30 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2011 MotoGP
14 Mugello Italy 2010 MotoGP
9 Le Mans France 2010 MotoGP
18 Indianapolis 2009 MotoGP
45 Phillip Island Australia 2007 MotoGP
25 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2007 MotoGP
22 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2007 MotoGP
26 Donington Park Great Britain 2007 MotoGP
57 Jerez Spain 2007 MotoGP
33 Losail Circuit Qatar 2007 MotoGP
29 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2006 MotoGP
26 Laguna Seca United States 2006 MotoGP
22 Donington Park Great Britain 2006 MotoGP
20 Assen Netherlands 2006 MotoGP
28 Mugello Italy 2006 MotoGP
32 Le Mans France 2006 MotoGP
12 Losail Circuit Qatar 2006 MotoGP
4 Jerez Spain 2006 MotoGP
7 Valencia 2005 MotoGP
 

Do Quickshifters Have a Negative Effect on Gearbox Life

Do Quickshifters Have a Negative Effect on Gearbox Life

QUESTION: Do quickshifters have a negative effect on gearbox life? Tim Askew CycleWorld.com ANSWER: Anyone with gearbox-service experience knows that the dogs that engage on the first-to-second upshift get the worst hammering. The reason? The first-to-second shift has the largest rpm difference....

Published on July 4 2015, 18:07
Source: www.cycleworld.com
 
 

A few weeks ago, with summer truly here and the locust trees in full bloom, I flipped open my ancient cell phone and gave Editor Mark Hoyer a call at the CW office in California. "What I have sitting in my workshop at this moment," I said, pausing for dramatic effect, "are two rival superbikes... 

"I swear I've never tried hard to make it look like art," claims custom bike builder Shinya Kimura. Yet, that's exactly what he ends up producing. I would make the case that his bikes are metaphysical statements about the relationship of man, nature, work, materials, and speed. I recently asked... 

They say that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. There are also two certainties in MotoGP so far this year: at every race, Michelin will introduce yet another new tire, and the Ducati Desmosedici GP will sprout a new set of wings. For Le Mans, Michelin brought a new rear... 

Two down, one to go. The last of the flyaways is always the hardest, in many ways. Three races on three consecutive weekends means that riders never have time to heal from even the small injuries they receive each weekend, from minor falls, or the blisters on their hands. Spending many hours... 

The test ban is over, and the MotoGP season is about to get underway. Bikes are already circulating, as the test riders put the first versions of the 2014 models through a shakedown to ensure that everything is in place, and working the way the engineers intended. In a few hours, we get the... 

Max Biaggi is back. Exactly 986 days since his last race, the 44-year-old is returning to competition at Misano as a wild card for Aprilia, alongside Leon Haslam and Jordi Torres. Last time Biaggi raced was on October 7, 2012, at Magny Cours, France, where he clinched his second World Superbike... 

For a long time now, Asphalt & Rubber has been following the progress of Alta Motors (formerly BRD Motorcycles), as they have worked to make a lites-class comparable electric motorcycle. With the Redshift MX motocross and Redshift SM supermoto bikes now shipping from the company's San Francisco...