Carburetor vs Fuel Injection - Why Motorcycle Riders Should Think Again

Post the reasons you ride...

Whether it’s a hobby, passion or a necessity, motorcycle riding has always invoked strong emotions in riders. Freedom, exhilaration, thrill of the unknown and sometimes fear, when you experience these...

There are two kinds of motorcyclists: those of us who have always known we wanted to ride, and those who found our passion later. I’m the second kind....

Two of Willie G.’s creations in particular proved to be the models for today’s cruisers: the Low Rider, introduced in 1977, and the Wide Glide of 1980. Study these bikes, and you’ll see elements of ev...

After showing up at the 2019 bike shows, Honda launched the CT125 in March until you-know-what happened. Now it’s out as a 2021 model with enough out there to have a good old speculate. It’s expected...

A new bike is being pushed out in anticipation of the loaded 2022 , decent veteran riders may notice motorcycle specs showing numbers of about the same power....

I get it might be annoying some points and most motorcycles don't have key fobs to turn it off from a distance but it seems like motorcycles are advanced enough, that should be a baseline feature espe...

A new season means new designs of motorcycle helmets. It’s already known about the new design of AGV Pista R helmet, which was created in cooperation of Valentino Rossi and Aldo Drudi for the Grand...

On the eve of the start of the 2023 MotoGP season, depending on which team or manufacturer you support, the coming races are going to be either a triumph or a disaster....

As the UK follows its former European Union counterparts in preparing for a ban on new internal combustion vehicle sales, the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) continues to push back....

This bike had an Ewarts dual push-pull petcock that combined the main and reserve valves into a single unit. It had been leaking badly when I last rode it 30 years ago, and I'm sure whatever fuel was...

I'm getting ready to paint the tank and fenders. To ramp up to this there is all the standard sheet metal prep work, but before that, I wanted to make sure the tank was in good enough shape to use....

Now it is just rust to deal with. There are a lot of ways to remove rust from steel. One way is acids. Strong ones like muriatic (hydrochloric), or weaker ones like phosphoric, acetic (vinegar), ci...

The only other oriface in the tank is for the fuel petcock. To eliminate as many external sources of leaks as possible, I decided not to use the petcock, but use a simple hose barb adaptor instead....

The leak was where the rear mounting tab was welded to the tank. It looked like an incompete weld, or a weld may have pulled loose or cracked. This would likely be a high stress area, and it's possi...

After I posted the above, I got a couple of messages that I had overlooked one potential source of leaks. The way I plugged the filler neck with an expanding stopper put the filler neck joint outside...