Technical Features
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Battery Smart Chargers: How They Work
Battery Smart Chargers - How They Work. Don’t be left flat this winter, here’s our guide to keeping your battery healthy
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The Best Motorcycle Ground Anchor : W Anchor
We have found the best motorcycle ground anchor currently available on the market, which also happens to have a brilliant name. The W Anchor is DOUBLE Diamond Rated by Sold Secure and is the only Diamond rated self-install ground anchor...
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BikeTrac Interview - Motorbike Trackers
We're often asked if GPS bike trackers are “worth it” and whether they will be offset by insurance discounts. We answer these and put your questions (and ours) to BikeTrac owner Bill Taylor... Plus we get Lamb Chops to steal our custom Fireblade and test BikeTrac response!
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Bike-Seal Puncture Prevention: Space Technology
Most of us know what a pain it is to get a puncture – the time, the agony, the expense. Well what if you could dramatically reduce the risk of a flat? Bike-Seal is a simple solution but with an impressive technical C.V.
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Motorcycle Engine Types: Part Two
In Part Two of our look at motorcycle engines Alan Dowds takes a look at the big, serious world of multi-cylinder lumps, from four up to eight. Of these engines we again look at which of them are awesome, and which run like a bag of spanners!
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Motorcycle Engine Types: Which is Best?
Most of us know what kind of engine we have in our bikes – the different characters of a single, twin, triple or four (or more!) cylinder motor are much more obvious than they might be in a car. But what’s best? Which motors are great and which suck...
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Tomorrow's World: Exotic Bike Materials
In 2020 we’ve got supercharged engines, electric suspension, wheelie control, carbon wheels, aerodynamic wings and 220bhp litre-class road bikes! But if you’d showed me that list 20 years ago, I’d have been a teeny bit disappointed...
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New 2020 Motorcycle Helmet Safety Regulations
A bike helmet is the most important bit of safety kit a rider has – it’s also the only one which needs to be worn by law. And now, the organisation behind safety regulations for helmets is updating its rules to keep riders even safer...