Having the lining fail in the gas tank of your motorcycle can happen. There are a few different causes, in some cases it’s a bad batch of tanks from the factory, or just age taking its toll. The most common reason for failure is the ethanol in our fuel eating away at the liner while your … More How To: Replacing A Failed Gas Tank Lining
Welcome to another of our “The Basics” articles. Sorry, I could not resist having a bit of fun with title since safely lifting a motorcycle to perform a service is nothing to joke about. Improperly lifting a motorcycle can lead to severe damage to your bike, injury to yourself, or others, so it’s best to … More The Basics: How To Get It Up And Keep It Up
In our last “Diagnosing a Bad TPS” we discovered a faulty throttle position sensor on a 2012 Victory Cross Country. In this article we will cover the steps taken to replace the TPS with a new one. Of course the steps shown here are specific to this model, but, they should be similar on your motorcycle. Anyone that … More How To: Replacing A Throttle Position Sensor
It is becoming more common for motorcycles to have electronic fuel injection, also known as EFI. You will find EFI on all types of bikes, street, dirt, every manufacturer is converting to EFI. There are several reasons for this, but mostly it’s for the performance improvement and to comply with ever increasing emissions regulations. The components of … More How To: Diagnosing A Bad T P S
If you ride for any length of time eventually you will have a headlight fail, it’s a common occurrence. Let’s just hope that it’s not in the middle of the night as you are making your way home. If you’re lucky, it’s just your low beam because it stays on all the time. I have … More The Basics: Let There Be Light
This is my first film review, ever, so if I botch it up, I’ll try to do better on the next, if there is one. Last Sunday I spent part of what would have been an otherwise cold, wet, and dreary afternoon in an activity that was almost as good as riding a motorcycle. Sitting … More Review: The Film Why We Ride
Sometimes things just find you… THE STORY OF MY CHINESE RED RAPIDE I very much missed owning, riding and showing my Black Shadow and had decided that I would like to somehow acquire another one. This is easier said than done as the prices of Vincent twins had skyrocketed. I then came up with what, … More Featured Bike: Ron Stupart’s A Tale of Two Vincents Part Two
HOW IT ALL BEGAN For as long as I can remember, I have been a gear-head. As the legend has it, my first word uttered as a baby was “Volkswagen”. Whether it be a car, motorcycle or airplane, if it had an engine and it moved, I loved it. From a young age, I could … More Featured Bike: Ron Stupart’s A Tale of Two Vincents Part One
One thing that became clear to me during trip in June to the Smoke Out Thirteen, was just how unsuitable my 2003 Victory V92C was for extended trips. Until then, I had only used it for local riding in the North Georgia Mountains. There were many Sunday trips were I racked up over 300 miles, … More Little Red Riding Vic Part One
I can’t count the number of times I have talked about going to the Smoke Out rally. I would always make tentative plans, then something would come up that was “more important,” usually the “more important” was something somebody else wanted me to do for them. It almost went down that way again, and I … More My Trip To The Smoke Out Thirteen
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