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Five simple tips to improve fuel efficiency

With petrol prices up and inflation touching a new high, it’s time when even the enthusiasts ride a bit conservatively to get better mileage from their steeds. So here are five simple tips that you can use to improve your motorcycle’s fuel economy.

Maintain recommended air pressure in tyres: This is one of the simplest things, [...]

Performance Tuning - part 4 Power Transmission

The term ‘power transmission’ makes quite obvious what we are looking at. Transmitting all that power to the rear wheel. After all what is a bullet that leaves the gun but does not hit the target?
Now the power we have made so far is at the crankshaft. It now has to go through the clutch [...]

Performance Tuning - part 3, Ignition

By now, your motorcycle would be having high compression, good port velocities, ideal exhaust path, and the perfect charge going in. But even air compressors do just that. Let us wean ourselves from them boring machines. Let’s have a blast!
Logically, an engine should compress the charge, and then when the piston reaches its highest position, [...]

Performance Tuning - part 2 Fluid Flow

Motorcycles are like human beings. No am not talking about girls and bikes and how unpredictable, moody yet lovable they can be. A motorcycle breathes air as fast as it needs, burns calorific fuel and throws out the waste as it goes. So just like you start panting for air and get hungry after strenuous [...]

Performance Tuning

Performance tuning is a subject that has been written about, argued upon, concluded upon, sworn upon, cursed upon, given up on and eventually, once in a while, savoured by generations of motorcyclists. Most of the people think that if they enlarge the exhaust port and install a free flow silencer, their bike will fly. The [...]