Cycle World Podcast
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Join Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer for the weekly Cycle World podcast for lively conversations about motorcycles and the people who build and ride them. Cameron’s legendary knowledge and ability to describe highly technical subjects in ways that are easy to understand allies with Hoyer’s massive testing background and hands-on work in the CW garage.
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- The Day That Saved Ducati! Its First Successful V-Twin Superbike wins at the Daytona of Italy, 1972 · 1 godz. 15 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 47Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast Every superbike and MotoGP bike Ducati has made in the last 50-plus years owes it all to the company's first…
- Bikes that Changed Racing: Yamaha Two-Stroke Production Racers · 1 godz. 22 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 45Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast Yamaha democratized racing in the 1960s with affordable two-stroke production racers that were essentially ready…
- Origin and Evolution of the Superbike engine Starting with the Muzzy Kawasaki · 1 godz. 13 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 43Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast We go back to the original Superbike engines of the 1970s to see where they began and how they have evolved into…
- Motorcycle Purchase Decisions Are Emotional--Or Why we Fall for Styling · 1 godz. 1 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 41Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast The US motorcycle market is a market of love. Performance stats, spec sheets, MPG, or other more practical…
- Oil Pressure or Viscosity? How Engines are Lubricated and Synthetic vs. Conventional Oils · 1 godz. 12 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 39Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast Oil seems to be endlessly fascinating to gearheads, so Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark…
- The Legendary Honda RC51 Beat Ducati at its own V-Twin Superbike Game · 1 godz. 15 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 37Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast At its core, Honda tries things. Honda superbikes were established as V-4s in the early 1980s, but when Honda…
- MotoGP 2027: Smaller Engines, Less Aero, More Thrills?! Thoughts on the New Era. · 1 godz. 9 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 35Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast MotoGP for the 2027 season will feature 850cc engines, down from the current 1000cc. Aerodynamic aids will be…
- Rear Suspension Designs That Failed, and, of course, More! · 1 godz. 13 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 33Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast How have we gotten in wrong with rear-suspension designs? In so many ways! Kevin and Mark take a tour through…
- Does a Longer Stroke Make More Torque? · 1 godz. 7 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 31Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast "Dang, them long-stroke engines are just torquier." While this is often true, it's not for the reasons many of…
- What is a Beautiful Motorcycle? · 1 godz. 11 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 29What is a beautiful motorcycle? You know it when you see it? Kevin and Mark talk about beauty of motorcycles both inside and out. We have a lot of the hits--Vincent Black Shadow…
- Unfit For Purpose: Birth of the Superbike, from local tracks to the world. · 1 godz. 5 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 27Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast Purpose-built production racebikes were available and pretty affordable in the early-to-mid 1970s, but humans…
- The Tragedy of Motorcycle Aerodynamics · 1 godz. 10 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 25Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast Motorcycles are just not good when it comes to aerodynamics. They punch a great big dirty hole in the air and do…
- Stories of the Daytona 200 and 50 years of Superbike Racing! · 1 godz. 19 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 23Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcastThe Daytona 200 has been the national motorcyclist's rite of spring, but it's more than just the 200--for much of…
- Inside Ducati's Insane NEW 2027 SUPERLEGGERA Centenario! All the CARBON FIBER and 248 HP! · 1 godz. 7 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 21Ducati dropped a carbon-fiber bomb in the form of the 2027 Superleggera Centenario, the most exotic V-4 superbike from Borgo Panigale ever. Perhaps even more far out than the…
- Motorcycle Rear Suspension and the Evolution of the Swingarm. · 1 godz. 10 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 19Listening to our listeners (and viewers), this topic came from you guys: Kevin and Mark take a look at motorcycle rear suspension starting with "all arm and no swing" rigid…
- WEIGHT TRANSFER and Motorcycle Handling--To wheelie or not? · 1 godz. 4 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 17How many ways have motorcycle designers gotten it wrong? So many! One of these was chasing an ultra-low center of gravity on motorcycles, only to find it made handling worse! How…
- MOTORCYCLE GEARBOXES EXPLAINED: Shifting, gear mesh, forks and more. · 1 godz. 12 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 15The motorcycle gearbox can be a great mystery but Kevin Cameron is here to help us all understand how it works. Why do we have six-speeds and constant mesh (mostly)? Kevin and…
- BIG BANG! How Firing Order Can Change An Engine. · 1 godz. 6 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 13Honda made a big impression with its close-firing-order "big bang" NSR500 and became dominant in two-stroke 500cc Grand Prix racing through the 1990s, replacing the "screamer"…
- Why did the "Normal" valve win? Poppet valves vs. Sleeve Valves vs. Rotary valves. · 1 godz. 9 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 10There have been many engine valve designs since the dawn of the internal combustion engine. What made poppet valves stick? (See what we did?) There were many other designs and…
- Four Banger: How the inline-four was inevitable for motorcycles. · 58 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 9The inline-four has many qualities that made it the performance engine format of choice for decades. Ride with Kevin and Mark as they talk about the origins of the inline-four…
