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Technical Editor Kevin Cameron
Kevin Cameron discusses the fundamentals of motorcycling.
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Weird Things Happening in Exhaust Ports
The strange case of attachment.
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Kevin Cameron
June 18, 2025
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The Saga of Harley-Davidson VR1000
Details of the American Superbike racing project
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Kevin Cameron
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Glenn Curtiss Was a Man in a Hurry
Motorcycle and aircraft pioneer.
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Going Roadracing on a Hopped-Up H2
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Harley-Davidson’s Sportster
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Honda Gold Wing: 50 Years of Touring Greatness
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Lessons Learned From Suzuki’s 1966 X6
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The Ins and Outs of Ball and Roller Bearings
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What Is MotoGP Aero All About?
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Kawasaki’s Mach IV 750 H2 Triple
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Kevin Cameron’s Top Picks From the Mecum Las Vegas Auction
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Engine Exhaust Sound and Its Suppression
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The Motorcycle and the Bicycle Remain Conceptually Close
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What Are Harley and Dorna Up To?
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Why did Honda Electric-Supercharge its V3 Concept?
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Blowing Up Engines
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History of Indian’s FTR750 Flat-Tracker
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What Is Big Bang Firing Order?
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Championship-Winning Superbike Built on BMW’s Flat-Twin
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Ducati Continues To Evolve With the V4
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What Is the Wheelie Limit?
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Keeping Heat Out of the Cylinder Head
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Hydrogen Power for Motorcycles?
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Amontons’ Laws of Friction
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MotoGP’s Front Tire Heat Problem
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Was Honda’s Oval-Piston NR500 a Failure?
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How Motorcycles Turn: Camber Thrust
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The Romance of Metals
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Motorcycle Gear Friction
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Journal Bearing in Motorcycle Engines
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What Will the Future of Bagger Racing Be?
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Baggers Are Becoming Better Racebikes
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The Two-Valve Hemi Combustion Chamber
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The Value of Hearsay in Motorcycle Maintenance
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Making Four Valves Per Cylinder Work
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When Disaster Strikes, Keep Thinking
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Fuel-Mixture Formation
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Harley’s Hot-Rodding of the CVO Road Glide ST
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Tales of Optimizing Ignition Timing
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How Critical Engine Parts Are Cooled
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The Exhaust Stroke
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The Power Stroke
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The Compression Stroke
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The Intake Stroke
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The Four-Stroke and Its History Explained
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De-confusing Chassis Squat
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Electric Motorcycle Wish List
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Honda’s E-Clutch Is a New Take on Automated Shifting
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Readers Pick Apart Ducati’s Superquadro Mono
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What Is Motorcycle Handling?
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Reconciling Centralized Mass and Efficient Structure
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Thinking About Kawasaki’s New Electrics
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Motorcycle Handling and Its Variables
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