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Firebolt020283
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 01:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
hey did anybody read the article in the july 2004 issue of roadracing world it has a really god article about the xb and the ideas and design of it
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Clevelandxb9r
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 02:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
I don't think you can get to the articles through their web site, right? I go to their site a lot for racing news.

http://venus.13x.com/roadracingworld/
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 02:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
i donno i didnt try there i just ran across it at our post exchange here in iraq and theres not a big viraity of mags especially motorcycleones and i was thumbing through that one and seen the article so i got just for that article
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Blake
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 05:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Yep read it. RRW is the most unbiased and comprehensive moto review magazine I've ever seen.
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 05:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
hell it tought me somethign i didnt know about our bike and thats the break away steering head
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José_quiñones
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 07:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Wait till you read the August Issue....
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Court
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 08:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
The steering head was one of the great conquests of making the nearly 15 year old "fuel in frame" concept work. Lots of perfectly good motorcycles and brick walls were married in pursuit of that. As usual, tests told Abe nothing he didn't already know.

Answer your questions about patents kids?

: )

Court
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Fbolt
Posted on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 10:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Really good August article on the FX bike. I appreciate their unbiased coverage and the fact that they're not afraid to cover Buells. I have cxld all other subscriptions other than RRW. I still periodically pick up other Euro bike rags from time to time-good content.

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Blake
Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 03:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
I still like Cycle World. Love that Kevin Cameron and Steve Anderson.
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Road_thing
Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 08:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Amen, Blake, Cameron is a jewel!

rt
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Henrik
Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 09:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Cycle World indeed. I find a few articles a bit goofy - but you can't please'm all ... However, Kevin Cameron's tech articles are great; enough info to make your head spin if you think deeper about what he's writing, while still very understandable as written.

His Sportbike Performance Handbook is loaded with great info on all aspects making bikes go and handle.

Henrik

edited by henrik on July 20, 2004
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Reepicheep
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 08:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
I am really fond of Cycle World as well. I don't always agree, but I can generally respect what they are saying.

And like the others, I live for any Cameron or Anderson article. I generally don't read the byline, but by the time I am about two paragraphs into it I can recognize either authors excellent work.

I miss John Burns though, he was always good for a laugh, and generally had a good point buried in there somewhere.
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 08:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
my dad used to read me cycle world when every one eles dad's were reading them mother goose
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Henrik
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Firebolt - that's very funny ... and very cool. : D

Henrik
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 06:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
hey it was the truth
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