has made to the full-throttle fuelling on the Blade. It's taken in sixth gear where, if you take your hands off the throttle, it will now chug along at tickover in sixth gear (17mph-ish). You can then wind the throttle to the stop and it'll pull

If ever you're in doubt as to why you should clean, lube and carefully adjust your chain, check this video out. This is a sixth gear roll-on using a brand new chain. The back wheel is traveling the equivalent of 167mph at the point it hits the rev

Before we do anything to the Fireblade's mapping it needs some base runs.This video is the all gear (except first because it'd just spin its wheel on the dyno's drum) acceleration test. Full throttle, to the red-line in every gear until it maxxes

, on the throttle. It's nuts.I now have what feels like a brand new motorbike. If Honda launch a new model for 2012 I hope it’s better than mine because the differences we’ve made so far with the gearing and fuelling are massive.Watch the the sixth gear roll

ROYAL Enfield have annouced their sixth open weekend on the weekend of the 25th-26th June.Held at the Watsonian-Squire sidecar factory, located between the scenic Cotswold towns of Moreton-in-Marsh and Chipping Campden, the event has a reputation

companies are trying to revamp their line by adding a sixth gear. We're taking the gears completely out of the equation and letting riders get back to actually riding. Several new unique features are creating interest among Ridley Riders on the company

’s probably why.This technique for near-seamless gearchanges is simple and easy to master. When doing it for the first time it’s best to practice between third, fourth, fifth and sixth gears. While accelerating gently, put some light pressure under

in deepest Norfolk. It was Snetterton.For starters, the GSX-R K9 is stupidly light. Like a 600.But it’s the sheer speed and power that knocked me for six. Coming onto the massive back straight in second gear, you just catch sixth (stock gearing) before

six-gear box with quieter, helical gears.The motor is stroked up from 1450cc and the compression ratio raised from 8.9:1 to 9.2:1. The sixth gear struck me as a little strange: massive torque, massive displacement = another ratio? I did use sixth

the huge clunk when first gear is selected) but a stack more practicality with the sixth gear, which basically acts like an over-drive and allows you to keep the revs down and ‘duff, duff’ along.The only slight niggles I have with the Dyna is the seat