Like a great many things on your motorcycle (unless you have built your own gearbox entirely from scratch), the overall gearing will be factory-calculated. This will usually offer the best compromise between easy getaways in the lower ratios

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TOP GEAR'S James May, a man who spends his spare time fiddling with old motorcycles like every real man should, has crashed a caravan fixed to a massive airship in a field in Cambridgeshire.May's weird contraption was being filmed in a race against

HERE'S a picture of 'real bike fan' and 'one of Evel Knievel's biggest fans' Richard Hammond, ripping the piss out of the world's greatest daredevil, during the Top Gear live show.We love the wit, humour and style of Top Gear, we really do. It

a big favour.Top Gear will probably never feature bikes againThe main reason is Clarkson and his sidekick Andy Willman don’t like bikes. But in a sense I’m quite glad. It’s a little subversive, guilty hobby of mine that I can keep quiet and it would

After detailing the elements that affect your choice of position and speed at the approach to a corner, I’d like to cover selecting the optimum gear and braking to achieve the correct speed for the corner. As this is part two of cornering, it builds

MOTOCROSS LEGEND Ricky Carmichael will feature on the hit BBC2 show Top Gear this Sunday 5th July at 8 pm.Carmichael, one of the most successful American motocross racers of all time, rides his Suzuki motocross bike alongside US rally star Ken Block

. It also featured a four-speed gearbox and nifty valve adjustment (rockers on eccentrics). But how beautifully proportioned are those neatly arranged gears to drive the single overhead camshaft? Work of art.But, weirdly, the same bottom end could carry