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Technical Editor Kevin Cameron
Kevin Cameron discusses the fundamentals of motorcycling.
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How Motorcycle Suspension Dampers Work
Engineers call them dampers. Everyone else calls them shocks.
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Kevin Cameron
February 3, 2023
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When is an Oil Not an Oil?
Weird lubrication.
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Kevin Cameron
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How Motorcycling Has Benefited From Big Science
Better tires thanks to bad fiberglass.
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Kevin Cameron
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How the Poppet Valve Won Its Place in Internal Combustion
A comfortably mature technology.
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Kevin Cameron
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Design Features That Make Fatigue Failure More Likely
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Tasks that Motorcycling Once Required
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Interference Drag
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A Fresh Start for Motorcycling?
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A Swan Song for the Inline-four Sportbike?
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Motorcycle Fuel Consumption
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Keeping Con-Rod Big Ends Properly Lubricated
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Origins of the British Parallel Engine
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About Suzuki’s New Parallel Twin
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Some Perspective on Vehicle Electrification
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Pierre Terblanche’s Motorcycle of the Future
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Gasoline Direct Injection