Recent content by Hawkeye

Seeing these pictures really has me anticipating my move - my wife and I are relocating to the Boulder area at the end of July. Hopefully the nicer weather will finally provide an opportunity for some additional seat time on the FZ!

Derby Cycles or Sportbike Track Gear.

I find it a little hard to believe that Ducati would be willing to release the Rossi Ducati GP10 test bike for sale already, if at all. I would imagine that there are a lot of prototype parts on that bike that are still in development and may be valuable to competitors.

Its already on the Honda US site, so it will be here in 2011 Honda Powersports

It looks like they have cheap rearsets too! Too bad they don't make any for the FZ1 though.

I'm really starting to like the looks of standard height DB. I'm getting tired of the turbulance from the stock screen, especially when I have a passenger- it seems like I get this strange oscillating effect that throws my head side to side that I end up having to fight at times.

+1 on getting your suspension setup-- this should make a huge difference. When I had my '06 1000rr, the stock suspension settings were way off, but I didn't realize that until I had a suspension guy perform a baseline setup trackside. After that, the bike was like a scalpel! Jumping on the...

If you want to do it right, you'll need to remove the spring. If you don't, besides not draining out all of the old oil and dirt, you cannot measure the correct fork oil height, which is critical to ensuring proper function of the forks.

Here are my current bikes. An '06 FZ1 and my '03 600rr trackbike. I'm hoping to change the colors on the 600rr before I take it on the track this season.

I loved my warrior. Plenty of power and attitude put together into a package that handles twisties surprisingly well (considering the fact that it is a cruiser). There are a lot of cool mods that you can do to these bikes to make them your own including an R1 front end conversion. The only...

I don't think you are going to feel a difference between the 530 and 520 since you also changed the gearing.

+1 on the spartan leathers. I eventually plan to get a set of custom leathers and there are a couple of racers at the local track that wear spartan and can attest to thier durability. If you have a chance, go out to youtube (I would post a link, but youtube is blocked here at work), you can...

From what I have seen and read on racing/performance sportbike forums, 2bros quality just isn't up to par with manufacturers like Akro, Arrow, or Leo Vince. However, if you're purely into aesthetics and sound, this type of pipe may work for you. If you're looking for quality and performance...

I've read that someone was able to bend the shift rod to convert the stock rearets to GP shift, but it later ended up breaking from the stress. Unfortunately, there are only a couple of aftermarket rearsets that allow for GP shift (Lightech and Graves, I beleive) and they are both pricy. I...

Are you sure? DMP lists the diameter as being 19mm for their stand and I just measured the pin on my vortex stand and its 19mm as well.