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Hmm...checked the Shorai FAQs and you are right. That certainly wasn't the message I got when I bought mine a few years back. Still there are a few precautions when using a standard lead acid type charger. Like, you shouldn't do it if the battery drops below 20% charge (12.9 volts)...

Keep in mind you also need a special charger for those batteries, so extra $$ there too. You can't just hook them up to the charger you use for a lead acid battery.

Geez thanks a million Dr. Phil you're a pile of help. :)

I have to say, I don't see a need for this. Does the motor run and rev okay? Does the gearbox feel okay when you click through the gears? Brake lever high and tight? Clutch disengage? Steering head bearings feel good? What will you discover in a parking lot that you couldn't discover during...

Yes. Logic has not featured heavily in these discussions. My latest strategy was to tell her that if she intends to take something away from me that is so important to me, the least she can do is take a few hours to learn at least a tiny bit about it. She has never even been to a race track...

I think I just soiled myself....

This is a complicated question. Wife freaked out last year after round four, when I came home missing body parts. I didn't do myself any favours with her when I then raced endurance in Round 5 without telling her I intended to do that. After that she made a major declaration: No more racing...

I'm a big believer in the sliders - saved my bike many times with no damage to the cases and little damage to anything else. This is really bike-specific though. On my bike both sliders attach to a single long "bolt" (threaded rod?) that passes through the frame and also the engine cases...

Actually it has been 0 km since its last valve check. It's practically ready. You know, except for repairing the hole in the bellypan, repairing, sanding and repainting the fairing, making a new fairing mount tab, rebuilding the forks, re-drilling all of the various wheel change fasteners for...

Three words, two errors. Man alive...

cc, if that is going to be your new signature line, could you please correct the grammatical error? Makes me nuts. your / you're. I know it is a stupid request but please, just do it for me.

I have something similar, but am not really sure what to make of surface tire temperature readings. John Bickle has made the point (pretty convincingly, at least to me), that surface temperature might not tell you much about the degree to which the tire is actually heat soaked. I never...

I bought that lightly used and it has not been perfectly reliable. One weekend it was surging like crazy, annoying the neighbours. I was able to fix it (Champion customer service is awesome - the guy replied to my email within a few hours with an illustrated .pdf on how to clean the pilot jet...

Bickle.

Anything that is the right length with adequate stroke and proper attachments should work, if it can be revalved and resprung to correct specs for the application. In determining the specs, weight of bike and rider are important, but maybe more important is the linkage ratio of the rear...

I made a list of to-dos and it has 16 items on it. I just wrapped the pipes, mostly to keep them from scorching the belly pan but also because it looks badass. Currently my fork cartridges are in Atlanta, my Penske shock is in St. Catherines and my steering damper is in Scarborough. Hopefully...

Best go-fast advice I can offer is to let smergy show you the way around for a few laps. I did that at TMP and dropped two seconds... (Disclaimer: this advice may not apply at Grand Bend, unless you want to be picking soybean pods out of your fairings....) :)

Personally I am a big believer in axle sliders, bar end sliders and frame sliders, but yes the frame sliders need a truly solid mounting point to be useful. Depending on the bike and where the frame sliders are located, the cases may already be well protected. My bike is a twin with narrow...

+1. My budget is very limited but $25 for a guest is never going to make it or break it for me. That's like 1/16 of a set of tires.

True. Actually a lot faster. And the physics part of my brain just kicked in and reminded me that the energy you need to dissipate is the square of the velocity. So if you are going 120% as fast you have 144% of the kinetic energy to turn into heat. Quite a difference.