Wheelie with a Ducati S4RS
Friday, 30 July 2010 @ 11:46 AM ICT
Contributed by: Anonymous

It's starting to feel like I'm finally cracking this wheelie thing. I always knew that the Ducati S4RS would help me get there this year. Carefully spending time building confidence was the key for me I think.When I was first bought the Ducati S4RS as a secondhand motorcycle, I was clutching up in second, only to roll off as it came up, I won't lie, it took me quite a while to relinquish the fear of flipping it. Like anything though, practice makes perfect and after several accumulated hours of playtime, something clicked.
All of a sudden, I was getting a snippet of the mysterious balance point, and for the first time, I was feeling a type of calmness on the rear wheel. After achieving this a couple of times, two things became apparent: I wanted it more than ever, and it's a little harder to flip than I originally feared. Of course, that's as long as you're not being stupid.


Newly announced 250cc supermoto style motorcycle available in Thailand within two to three months. The Apollo Orion RX250 is powered by a single-cylinder, liquid-cooled 249.4cc four-stroke engine, with a 70m bore and 64.8mm stroke. The Orion RX250 engine is capable of producing 21 horsepower at 7,500rpm.
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The all-new Yamaha FZ8 series that will possibly be available in Thailand mid 2011. Two models make up the Yamaha FZ8 offer, the Yamaha FZ8N “the nakedbike” and the Yamaha FZ8S “half-faired”, and their evolution is a bid to strike middle ground between the popular Yamaha FZ1 and the FZ6.
Thai Honda PTT Singha-SAG Moto2 team with rider Ratthapark Wilairot, races with a Bimoto HB4 Moto2 beauty. If you think that the 600cc Moto2's are slower than the 800cc MotoGP machines, think again – on the German Sachsenring both Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi booked a average speed of 159.9km/h, while in the Moto2 Ratthapark Wilairot was doing 150.5km/h as average speed.
The idea mixture of fuel to air in a motorcycle engine is around 13.2:1, so one part fuel to 13.2 parts air. In each cylinder when the fuel/air mixture goes bang at high revs the resulting pressure release around 90 to 95 Bar, or 1305 to 1377psi. This is why it's so important to do up cylinder head studs well.
A sun-soaked Laguna Seca welcomed the MotoGP paddock to American soil today, where Jorge Lorenzo looked on good form to finish the opening session in second and his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi made a solid start for sixth position. The Fiat Yamaha M1s are running in a special livery here to celebrate the forthcoming launch of the Fiat 500 car in the United States, which features the faces of 500 fans on both bikes and the riders' leathers.
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A Honda CBR1000RR '04 to '06 as secondhand motorcycle. The first 1000cc Honda Fireblade – which dropped the capital B in its name as a mark of respect when original project leader Tadao Baba left after 12-years. The Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade is sharp, small, makes huge speed very easy and looks so like the MotoGP-winning Honda RC211V we all love. Everything about the Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade echoes the RC211V MotoGP race bike, from the underseat exhaust to the tiny fairing.
My Yamaha YZF-R1 has 20,000 varied kilometers in its first year – a mixture of road, track, and touring. The fantastic Yamaha engine has had a little work to make it even more drivable. Graves velocity stacks, Power Commander 3, air-filter and Tadao racing canister add extra horses and midrange torque. 152 horsepower @ 12,700rpm and plenty of torque are the result. A few additional cosmetic enhancements, some non-adjustable rearsets and some raised clip-ons tailor it for everyday use. We've had some amazing times and the Yamaha YZF-R1 has catapulted me to the tropical islands in the South and the mountainous areas of the north more times than fingers I have on one hand.