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Depends on the type of crash for me. If I tip over at a standstill, I just step off and let the bike fall between my legs, especially on a tall dirt bike. Too easy to mess up a shoulder trying to hold it up, and potential for blowing out a knee if it traps your leg. A busted clutch lever or...

I've spent most of the last week and a half lying facedown on the living room floor after high-siding and landing nearly flat on my back. I can sit in a chair now, although not very comfortably. This would have sucked at any age, but the experience has given me a peek into what actual old age...

On a small bike you definitely won't be holding up any big bikes for more than half a lap. If they're reasonably close to your skill level, they just need to wait for the next straightaway and then they're gone. I haven't encountered any serious safety issues when mixing big and small bikes in...

The bulk of their stable is CBR125s and CBR250s. A couple of guys had rental CBR250s (even kitted out with tire warmers) at their Mosport DDT VIP day in Aug. They had one 600cc a handful of years ago when I was doing their endurance races. Not sure if they still have that available or not...

I did the Racer5 school, and then did their endurance races on their rented bikes for a couple of years. They're not doing endurance races anymore, but they have a couple of trackdays per year and will rent bikes for those. It's a good way to dip your toes in. There are a lot of benefits to a...

Dig out a magnifying glass and have a look at the tiny print on the back of your existing charger. It'll probably say something like "Input: 100-240V 50/60Hz", which means you don't need a fancy voltage converter. You just need a plug/prong adapter.

If anything, I think underinflation would aggravate that wear pattern, not overinflation. But it might just be PV = nRT (pressure rises as temperature rises) if you filled them before your trip when it was cool and measured them now when it's hot

I vaguely recall making a tool for this purpose, but can't remember exactly what bike it was for. I have a feeling that I made it out of metal electrical conduit, and just roughly shaped the end of the tube into a hex shape with a vise. It doesn't have to be very precise. That specific model of...

The central ridge is the harder portion of their multi-compound rubber designed to provide more highway miles. I have Bridgestone S21s on one of my bikes, and the front has the same type of noticeable ridge in the middle. The softer rubber beside the ridge starts to become concave as it wears. I...

Yes, you definitely don't want to swap a grinder into that stand thing just to make a couple of cuts. I semi-permanently mounted my worst grinder in the stand, and then went and bought a nicer grinder for handheld use. In terms of control, I always used the handle on the old grinder, but the...

I need to get some machine tools. My reaction to the first 30 seconds of that video was "I would rather buy a new bike than drill through the length of a stainless steel bolt with my hand drill to make a drill guide". :ROFLMAO: The abrasive hole saw is an interesting idea though. Confession...

The most I will do is signal folks that are driving at night without their headlights on. I pull the parking brake a notch in the car so the DRL will go off, then turn the low beams on and off a couple of times. Cutting the DRL and turning the low beams on is more noticeable as a deliberate...

That's a good point. I will file this away and hope that I remember it when it inevitably comes time that I need to use it.

Is your first picture from before or after the extractor broke and stuck in it? I can't really see much, if any, of the extractor stuck in there. I've shattered rotary cutoff discs trying to cut slots in similar recessed things, so dig out your safety glasses. Pretty sure I was trying to cut...

This would be easy if they knew whether the audio clips started at the start/finish line. Much harder if the clips started at some random point in the lap. The Mugello one definitely isn't starting on the front straight, but you can't tell if that's just from the video editing or not...

It looks like Oliveira has managed to transfer his curse of getting taken out by other riders onto Mir.

I have no personal experience with the ZX10R fitment, but I've seen a few of these around the pits and they seem pretty solid: https://419racing.com/lap-timer-mounts/

I picked up one of these on sale a while back and it reduces a lot of the angle-grinder trepidation. It turns an angle grinder into a mini-chopsaw. I couldn't justify the shop space for a real chopsaw, and this thing just lives on a shelf above my workbench. There's a cheaper version that's...

Absolutely wild Moto2 race.

I'm up to 6 or 8 tire changes a season now (track), so doing it myself provides the convenience of being able to swap tires any time that I need. Mounting tires isn't exactly pleasant, but it's pretty easy when you figure out the technique. The cost of the gear isn't really a factor: less than...