Can we start up the F-22 manufacturing line in response?

I think Russia and its industrial war-machine doesn't have to make apologies for itself and doesn't get manipulated by bureaucrats like the US's and that's the reason why projects like the F-35 have been such a money sucking disappointment.

Yeah, I think Israel actually did that with the F-35? I wonder if the F-15 & F-16 could be made into legitimate 5th generation competitors, not unlike the Flanker and how it has evolved into a 4th + generation fighter.

I may be wrong, but the F-16 sent to intercept that Fullback seems a little outclassed. The US would be a lot better off developing an export version of the F-22 than whatever the agenda is now.

Yamaha already made it. The WR250X. It looks like a lot of fun, but I doubt it will get me into too much trouble on the street like a bigger bore bike and the suspension is a nice starting point to take it from a premium beginner's bike to a legitimate super motard. I'm burned out on sport bikes and track days; this…

The reason I made that comment was that it would seem that a higher revving sport bike engine might show signs of faster wearing valves than an HD engine and how their experience was contrary to logic.

I'm glad you posted this. There are a lot of parameters at play, but it gets frustrating when journalist just associate the bore and stroke as solely defining the engine's output characteristics. If it were that simple, engineering students wouldn't have to take two years of math before even starting their…

Quoted from a technical article on Cycle World:

It's worth ditching these bikes with heavy sex appeal and racing a bunch of mini-motos in a back parking lot somewhere just to dissociate with this image.

I know we're not here to talk about the Jay Leno video, but Jesus Christ that was awkward to watch. All the PR guy knew was the weirdly translated brochure diatribe probably written in Japan and with unique Japanese mannerisms meant for Japanese people and Leno's taste for ill suited mannerisms and it just makes for…

That's really neat! Those tires are impressive, too.

I'd rather have carbs than overly lean and jerky FI like what's found on the newer FZ1 and my 2009 R1 and need an expensive reflash to be tolerable.

This is mind blowing. I thought HD was all about 'under stressed' engines lasting forever.

I never really said I had a problem with it, I just think it would of been more exciting if they took the CBR1000RR/Fireblade and made it into a V4. This RCV will help sell magazines and maybe even get people into dealerships to buy other Hondas, but on its own, I just don't see much to care about when most people…

It's a neat ornament, but it kind of feels like a farce.

Real talk: My dad and his never ending midlife crisis killed Christmas a long time ago.

'What's the budget for Christmas this year?'

A friend of mine put around 35k miles on his SV1000 before checking his for the first time. Some were a little loose and others were a little tight, but all within spec according to the manual. The same goes for my R6 when I had them checked and it had a lot more track miles than the SV.

I'm not sure how newer bikes…

Wow, that's pretty crazy. Was it a defect in the top end?

Why can't we just raise gas guzzler taxes on SUVs and luxury trucks? Target those people if they want to be a source of instability for our infrastructure and convince them to rethink their priorities. The upper echelons of society won't even flinch when they go to buy a new Suburban as their third or fourth vehicle.

There is a lot of bad things at play here in the video. No useful body positioning that causes his pegs to scrape, all the entangled corrections he made to reduce his lean, and it sounds like he had iffy throttle control going on that was making his bike that much more nervous prior to the high side. He was already…

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