Motorcycle Stuff
Chain dimensions
Chain Sizing
Ever wondered what the difference is between a 530 and a 520 or 525 chain is?
The numbers used in chain sizing are all in 5/8ths on an inch. The first number is the pitch (the spacing between the pin centres) and the other two are for the width of the chain.
Spark plug condition chart
Spark Plug Condition Chart
The following is a spark plug colour and condition chart showing the symptoms and explaining the cause of various spark plug conditions.
Motorcycle Wisdom
I don’t know who wrote this, I saw it posted on a Bulletin Board and like it.
Disc Brake Pads – Construction, Selection and Break-In
From: The Ducati Garage Tech articles.
Most of you will have to replace your bike’s brake pads at least once during your lifetime — unless your idea of riding is pushing your bike back-and-forth in your living room, Flintstone-style.
As you wander into your local dealer or thumb through the pages of your favorite catalog, you’ll find many different brake pad manufacturers, such as Ferodo, DP, Galfer, and EBC. The problem is selecting which pad best suits your riding style and conditions. Other than the a few lines of marketing blurb on the back of their packaging, there’s not a lot of information available on how to differentiate pads from one another.
The Pace
The Pace
Separating street from track, riding from racing
writer: Nick Ienatsch
“The Pace”, first appearing in the November 1991 issue of Motorcyclist magazine.
Racing involves speed, concentration and commitment; the results of a mistake are usually catastrophic because there’s little room for error riding at 100 percent. Performance street riding is less intense and further from the absolute limit, but because circumstances are less controlled, mistakes and over aggressiveness can be equally catastrophic. Plenty of roadracers have sworn off street riding. “Too dangerous, too many variables and too easy to get carried away with too much speed,” track specialists claim. Adrenaline-addled racers find themselves treating the street like the track, and not surprisingly, they get burned by the police, the laws of physics and the cold, harsh realities of an environment not groomed for ten-tenths riding. But as many of us know, a swift ride down a favorite road may be the finest way to spend a few free hours with a bike we love. And these few hours are best enjoyed riding at The Pace.
A year after I joined Motorcyclist staff in 1984, Mitch Boehm was hired. Six months later, The Pace came into being, and we perfected it during the next few months of road testing and weekend fun rides. Now The Pace is part of my life – and a part of the Sunday morning riding group I frequent. The Pace is a street riding technique that not only keeps street riders alive, but thoroughly entertained as well.
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