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Personally, the countersteering theory didn't really sink in until I laid down on the tank and swerved back and forth accross my lane a few times without shifting my weight at all. There's no better illustration that that countersteering is for real.

My MSF class was my first time on the bike. I was really worried beforehand about not being used to the clutch. The pace of the class was so slow that I easily had each skill down before we moved on to the next skill. They spent as much time with the experienced riders un-teaching bad habits...

In Oklahoma we don't have learner's permits, but if you pass the MSF course you can skip the riding portion of your liscense exam. I took the coarse first to see if I liked riding(I loved it), then passed the written state exam to get my liscense. Found my fz three weeks later. I highly...

I think those bars are plastic and might be hollow. Be prepared to fill the holes and refinish before painting.

Just woke up with another thought. If the honeycomb effect does reduce turbulance, it could be added at any point in our intake system. How gradually does our duct work have to taper up to sufficiently increase pressure? What if you put a section of tapered honeycomb directly in front of the...

Most of this thread is way over my head but I'm very intrigued. The only thought I could add is about the turbulance problem. I seem to recall an episode of mythbusters where they make a wind tunnel, and to reduce turbulance, they run the wind through a honeycomb of drinking straws. Maybe...