10 Things To Do To Your Bike Right Now
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Paying for it is the easy part. Now get to work before you play.
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Dr. Dirt takes you through an FCR carb rebuild. Don't be scared, it'll only hurt for a minute.
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Dr. Dirt takes you through an FCR carb rebuild. Don't be scared, it'll only hurt for a minute.
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Quick and dirty twin-chamber-fork seal changes.
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Manufacturers build for an "average" guy and that doesn't always suit big guys any more than it does short folks. Read this dirt bike article and find out how to set up your bike to fit your own size
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Take a look at everything that goes into the building of an Innovation Sports knee brace
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Hto replace the sole inserts on Alpinestars Tech 10 boot.
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It wasn't long ago that buying a used bike was very dicey. For one, so many improvements came each year that a year-old bike was technically obsolete; even worse was the bike would most likely be worn out because of the quality of production and materials. But
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Yamaha's YZ250F has existed for more years than any of the other 250cc four-strokes, so it is less of a mystery—one reason we left it for last in our series on small-bore four-strokes. The other reason is the Yamaha has fewer weaknesses to pinpoint. In fa
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A new bike is exciting, but before you fill up the tank and get it dirty, you need to spend some quality time with your steed. No matter if it just rolled off the showroom floor or out of someone's garage, your course of action will be amazingly similar. You n
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Whenever we're strolling through the pits at a supercross or a National-caliber event that draws the factory teams, we can only imagine what it's like to have some of the trick parts we see on factory machines. Fortunately, as the number of aftermarket compani
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There aren't many dirt riders who would dispute the fact that technology has been very good to them. We can buy motocross and off-road machines right off the showroom floor that are capable of virtual "Formula 1" performance. This translates into your being ab
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Dirt bikes have come a long way in the past 25 years. It was once common practice to buy a new bike then spend 10 to 20 hours in the garage prepping it before you ever rode your shiny, new mount. You had to go about changing darn near everything before you cou
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Today's bikes aren't cheap, so getting your money's worth out of your bike is critical to your enjoyment of the sport. It's possible to offset the cost of riding and greatly extend the life of your bike if you keep up the necessary routine maintenance. There a
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Chains are vital links to the enjoyment of dirt riding. Although the method of transferring power from the engine to the rear wheel hasn't changed much in the last 50 or so years since motorcycle riders began taking their bikes into the dirt, the implements th
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One of my favorite sayings is "the devil is in the details." In the case of off-road motorcycling, the "details" are the little setup tips and preparation ideas that will help you more fully enjoy the sport and avoid some of the problems riders have encountere
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With all the hype about Supermoto these days, you gotta know that the best race shops are experimenting with their bikes.
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You at home may immensely benefit from our humongous 2003 YZ450F exhaust analysis but it must be duly noted: Knuckles bled, bolts stripped, tires wore, dynos worked and two test riders were beat into submission during our evaluation. To bestow concrete and all
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The two-stroke engine is quite an amazing creature in itself. This internal-combustion engine is technologically archaic with its oil-fuel lubrication system, reed intake and open exhaust port. But when it comes to building performance through the exhaust syst
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Although we appreciate and benefit from the wealth of technology and abundance of testing that goes into each model a manufacturer releases, there are times when the factories screw up, to put it bluntly. On those rare occasions, it's when the bikes are out on
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By now the 2003 model motocrossers have been on the market for a few months, most of you have your new rides for the up-and-coming season and we at MXracer have already burnt through several hundred gallons of race gas getting our test bikes dialed in. Now is
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Ivan Tedesco and his Yamaha of Troy YZ125 are favored to win the 2003 THQ Eastern Region 125 Supercross Championship. Now in his second year with one of the winningest 125 factory-supported satellite teams, Tedesco is considered by many industry insiders as a
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CCR Sport is the originator of the truck bed motorcycle tie-down support brace. With its innovative designs and high-quality manufacturing, it is no wonder that it produces the best product of its kind, bar none. With the functionality and quality of this prod
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There is nothing like strolling through the pits at a race to check out all the factory bikes and see all the trick parts that most of us will never get our hands on. One of the most interesting components is works suspension--all the off-the-wall coloring on
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