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If we have to explain, you won't understand.

Once again, where are the locking, hard, integrated side cases? Yet another Honda VFR middleweight without them. Honda surely has **** for brains.

If sport bike riders are interested in ST tires for their bikes to increase their mileage and keep good but not track handling characteristics...I have tried Angel ST's on my ST bike, for ST type riding, i.e. not track, and they are *excellent*. Michelins PRIII's are better yet...IMO, and the...

It's always the same, these abs threads. People always bring up abs' race track outcomes as proof that abs allows for faster lap times, (as if street riding and track riding are somehow comparable) and safety studies comparing abs braking times and distances to non-abs bikes at the same speeds...

One of my bikes incorporates a steel rod to operate the rear shoe brakes that can be modulated very well, as well as a metal rocker arm and steel rod to retract the side stand when engaging the clutch lever. Both work very effectively, with no problems. Better than computerized hydraulic abs...

I don't understand. First you say the road is not a race track, and then you give a race track example in support of abs. So, abs and tc can turn a public road into a race track because all the Ricky Racers out there are now safe to use public roads as race tracks, thanks to abs and tc...

You are wrong. There is speeding, there is reckless driving and then there is careless driving. The law is not the law is not the law. There are degrees of breaches. I can't tell you how many times I've passed a radar trap doing 120. They do not stop me because I am not being reckless. They're...

Breaking the law and being reckless are two different things so really, you have no point. It seems you already know the differences between those two acts because as you point out, it's not riding at 120 along with the flow of traffic that's the problem. So even in the end if you do not...

Not true.

Let me reiterate: If the bike was indeed delieverd as described, I say the shop/mechanic should lose their/his/her license. I have said it before and now again, I feel it was okay when he took delivery, because only an unimaginably, egregiously, incompetent mechanic/shop would release a bike in...

I did say I felt the bike was okay on delivery, but even so, "harsh"? I'm not sure. If the OP had crashed because some mechanic did pass his bike in that bad of a condition with a bad result, what would be harsher? I feel the bike was okay when delivered because if it was in the condition the OP...

At some point the bike must have been right during your ownership period, as it passed a safety inspection, and if the wheel/front end was as loose as you say, then the inspecting mechanic should lose his license. Chances are it came lose and you didn't notice it until the head shake. That's why...

They can also run too hot even on a fair weather bike, and that could causing warping too.

Sportster's lineage is that they were Harley's perfomance bike when they were introduced. Small, fast, agile. Not a chick's bike back then. And not now either. As they are small and agile and fast, *for a Harley*, and have a "line up" they appeal to several "types" of riders for several reasons...

Best answer. Wrapping pipes may cause them to warp, or rust.

Doesn't/didn't Yamaha build Toyota's racing engines?

Holy Buddha!!! Freaking Allah!!! Jumping Jehovah!! Spitting Krishna!! Effing Zoroaster!! Mothering Bahaullha!! This thread's title neds emergency moderation, really fast!! :)

Chinese engines?

I used to ride in-line fours, but as my user name says, not any more. IMHO: When, (and if) you reach a point where you want and need "more" from a motorcycle than what in-line fours offer, only then you will be *ready* for a twin. I reached that point after 3 in-line fours, and one v-four. For...

Less shifting/braking, ie keep it on the boil and use the throttle to control speed/set up entries; less lean/less time leaned, ie go deeper into the corner and square off the apex; less speed in the tight turns, ie "go fast in the fast parts" and smooth in the slow parts; fewer thoughts of sex...