Sportbike Performance Handbook

Sportbike Performance Handbook
Author: Kevin Cameron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release:
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781616730710

“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.

Classic Motorcycle Race Engines

Classic Motorcycle Race Engines
Author: Kevin Cameron
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781844259946

This authoritative book, elegantly written in highly digestible style by the foremost expert on the subject, provides in-depth analysis of classic motorcycle race engines spanning eight decades, from the 1930s Guzzi 500 120-degree twin to the latest Yamaha YZR M1 in-line four. Packed with technical detail, the book provides an absorbing insight into the technology employed in a wide variety of motorcycle engines, investigating the diverse approaches taken by various manufacturers over the years in the search for race-winning performance.

Race Tech's Motorcycle Suspension Bible

Race Tech's Motorcycle Suspension Bible
Author: Paul Thede
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2010-06-19
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1610591666

The suspension expert’s illustrated, comprehensive troubleshooting guide for dirt, street, and supermoto—with a solution to virtually any problem. Suspension is probably the most misunderstood aspect of motorcycle performance. This book, by America’s premier suspension specialist, makes the art and science of suspension tuning accessible to professional and backyard motorcycle mechanics alike. Based on Paul Thede’s wildly popular Race Tech Suspension Seminars, this step-by-step guide shows anyone how to make their bike, or their kid’s, handle like a pro’s. Thede gives a clear account of the three forces of suspension that you must understand to make accurate assessments of your suspension’s condition. He outlines testing procedures that will help you gauge how well you’re improving your suspension, along with your riding. And, if you’re inclined to perfect your bike’s handling, he even explains the black art of chassis geometry. Finally, step-by-step photos of suspension disassembly and assembly help you rebuild your forks and shocks for optimum performance.

Modern Motorcycle Technology

Modern Motorcycle Technology
Author: Massimo Clarke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010
Genre: Motorcycles
ISBN: 9781610590808

A complete illustrated guide covering every technical aspect of today's sophisticated motorcycles. Explains how every system functions on today's cutting-edge bikes, as well as that employed on older machines.

Maximum Control

Maximum Control
Author: Pat Hahn
Publisher: MotorBooks International
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2010-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0760336741

This is the first how-to guide for riding a big bike, with clear information on differences in equipment and handling, steering, positioning, powering up, braking and carrying a passenger.

Sportbike Suspension Tuning

Sportbike Suspension Tuning
Author: Andrew Trevitt
Publisher: David Bull Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Morotcycles
ISBN: 9781893618459

"Sportbikes today handle better than pure racebikes did just a few years ago. Their sophisticated, versatile suspension offers countless combinations to find the handling that's right for you. This book will help you hone and perfect your suspension for high-performance street riding and track days. Discover the right way to set spring and damping adjustments, and adjust ride height for greater steering responsiveness and traction. Suspension specialists from professional racing and the aftermarket also offer their insights on useful modifications."--Publisher description.

Sport Riding Techniques

Sport Riding Techniques
Author: Nick Ienatsch
Publisher: David Bull Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781893618077

Shows you techniques on how to develop real world skills for speed, safety and confidence on the street and track.

Top Dead Center

Top Dead Center
Author: Kevin Cameron
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-07-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780760327272

Kevin Cameron is one of the most widely read motorcycle journalists in the world--for reasons that this collection makes immediately and undeniably clear. Here are the feature articles and columns that have made Cameron a must-read for motorcycle aficionados: stories of the racing life; interviews with top-notch racers; profiles of builders and engineers (like John Britten); accounts of changes in the racing world; analyses of riding techniques and winning technology; reports of races; and popular pieces about engine and suspension theory. With short introductions to each piece, Cameron puts his on-the-spot writing on motorcycle racing into context, and offers a quick, clear history of the best on bikes.