by LE | Feb 14, 2016 | Lindemann Engineering
This just in from Charlie: “Hi Ed, We rode 160 miles today, 2 up, technical mountain roads… at a safe, sporting pace. The bike is transformed!! I didn’t make any adjustments, and the handling was fantastic, like the bike was on a rail… better than my...
by LE | Feb 13, 2016 | Lindemann Engineering
This is a review of Shoei’s new top of the line race helmet, the X-Fourteen. But first some stuff about motorcycle helmets in general. A helmet does much more than protect your head in a crash. A good helmet provides a pocket of still air in front of your face so you...
by LE | Feb 6, 2016 | Lindemann Engineering
Very soon you will start seeing Blog posts here about bikes and products that I have used in the past and new stuff that I will be testing. Followers of the “Deep Thinking” podcasts know that I tested Yamaha’s R-1 at Eastern Creek and R-3 at Thunder Hill last year and...
by LE | Feb 6, 2016 | Lindemann Engineering
I found this girl in Tiki’s water bowl, she looked dead but I fished her out anyway and put her in the LE Bee Warming Station. It’s fun to watch them groom themselves as they warm up. She will spend the night in the shop and Bee on her way tomorrow.
by LE | Feb 4, 2016 | Lindemann Engineering
Fork tubes have a tough life. The worst part is being whacked by rocks and road stuff at high speeds closely followed by rust. New tubes can be expensive or hard to find but all is not lost. The chrome your forks came with can be chemically removed, the tubes can be...
by LE | Jan 29, 2016 | Lindemann Engineering
MG likes to write so much that he can’t fit it all on his blog so he sent me this: Uselessly Cool Things To Do In The Off-Season, Part 1: Tired of going over the Sepang MotoGP race frame-by-frame like you were looking for evidence of a hidden plot by the Pope?...