A motorcycle’s final drive, or the part that makes the bike move, can be a shaft, a belt, or most commonly, a riveted master link chain. You know, like the one on your 10-speed bicycle. And just as ...

Despite looking a lot simpler than cars, motorcycles are very complex pieces of machinery. Around for so many years that no one is left alive to remember how they got going, bikes have constantly ...

Motorcycle ownership means belonging to a taxonomy of tribe and sub-culture that parallels those found in nature. Remember Biology 101? If I recall correctly, it goes something like: Phylum, Class, ...

It’s time for some basic maintenance on our 1998 Triumph Tiger project bike. So we thought it might be a good idea to record some of the work for the benefit of others. We’re also trying a slightly ...

Sprockets and chains are some of the many parts that make your motorcycle function. Your front sprocket will rotate with the transmission output shaft, pulling on the drive chain, which in turn ...

With motorcycle maintenance jobs such as lubricating the chain, knowing how to perform the task itself is only half the battle. It's perhaps even more difficult to determine how often you should lube ...

A broken chain is an unfortunate setback for a dirt bike owner, but let us look on the bright side. A dirt bike chain replacement is a cheap and easy fix that you can do at home, provided that you are ...

Right, the MO staff has spent the last nine months exhaustively testing every chain lube on the market in all possible climatic conditions, over thousands of miles, to bring you this, the most ...

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