Performance motorcycle

“To appoint yourself project leader on your own bike is exciting,” says Cycle World columnist and performance guru Kevin Cameron, “but then you need a plan that you can actually carry through.”  For a decade, Cameron’s bestselling Sportbike Performance Handbook has been helping readers and riders make those plans and put them into motion--building better, faster, more powerful bikes.  This new edition does everything the first did, and more, bringing bikers up to date on the dramatic changes that have swept sportbike technology in the past ten years.

 

Cameron goes deep inside the world of performance, offering usable insights into how systems work as well as how modifications and aftermarket trickery translate into more power and better handling on the street or at the track.  Component by component, he describes the secrets of speed in minute detail, all with added color photographs and new diagrams.   This edition covers changes to fuel management, suspension, tire technology, brake systems and more.  It is the essential tool for anyone looking to coax maximum performance from a sportbike.

 

First published in 1996, Eric Gorr's guide to maximizing stock motocross and off-road motorcycles and building factory race replicas has become the definitive work on the subject. This all-new edition is extensively revised to cover all bikes built from 1985 through 1999, including: the Powerjet carbureted Honda CR250 and CR125; the new Yamaha four-stroke YZ400F and WR400F; and all other new-for-1999 bikes. KTM competition bikes and the Kawasaki KLX300 four-stroke will also be covered. Step-by-step instructions and a generous selection of exclusive photography show how to maintain, modify, and set-up every component, and how to correct common flaws. Advice is also provided for buying used bikes, setting up a shop at home, and preparing for race day. Eric Gorr is a professional motocross tuner and the author of the original Motocross & Off-Road Motorcycle Performance Handbook.

Keep a veteran mechanic at hand with this updated version of the best-selling manual for Harley-Davidson owners who want to hop up their machines. Created with the weekend mechanic in mind, this comprehensive, illustrated guide clearly and concisely outlines 101 projects that will improve the power, handling, and ride of Evolution-engined Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Drawing on years of hopping up and living with Evo-engined Big Twins and Sportsters, author and Harley-Davidson technician Kip Woodring provides step-by-step instructions for projects ranging from the basics of simple maintenance to the finer points of altering gearing, upgrading ignition, and making the changes that make a bike unique.

If you're looking for ways to keep up with the pack - or blow right past them - this book has 101 of them. Boost the performance of your Harley-Davidson's Twin-Cam engine with 101 projects broken out by each specific aspect of the motorcycle, including engine, suspension, transmission, exhaust, brakes, and body. Hundreds of photos and diagrams take you step-by-step through each project making it a breeze to keep other riders in your rearview mirror.

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