Cycle World Podcast

The Day That Saved Ducati! Its First Successful V-Twin Superbike wins at the Daytona of Italy, 1972

Find 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 f

Bikes that Changed Racing: Yamaha Two-Stroke Production Racers

Find us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/CycleWorldPodcast Yamaha democratized racing in the 1960s with affordable two-stroke production racers that were essential

Origin and Evolution of the Superbike engine Starting with the Muzzy Kawasaki

Find 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 evo

Motorcycle Purchase Decisions Are Emotional--Or Why we Fall for Styling

Find 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 practic

Oil Pressure or Viscosity? How Engines are Lubricated and Synthetic vs. Conventional Oils

Find 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-Chie

The Legendary Honda RC51 Beat Ducati at its own V-Twin Superbike Game

Find 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

MotoGP 2027: Smaller Engines, Less Aero, More Thrills?! Thoughts on the New Era.

Find 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 wi

Rear Suspension Designs That Failed, and, of course, More!

Find 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 th

Does a Longer Stroke Make More Torque?

Find 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 m

What is a Beautiful Motorcycle?

What 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

Unfit For Purpose: Birth of the Superbike, from local tracks to the world.

Find 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 h

The Tragedy of Motorcycle Aerodynamics

Find 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 ai

Stories of the Daytona 200 and 50 years of Superbike Racing!

Find 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

Inside Ducati's Insane NEW 2027 SUPERLEGGERA Centenario! All the CARBON FIBER and 248 HP!

Ducati 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

Motorcycle Rear Suspension and the Evolution of the Swingarm.

Listening 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" rig

WEIGHT TRANSFER and Motorcycle Handling--To wheelie or not?

How 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 wo

MOTORCYCLE GEARBOXES EXPLAINED: Shifting, gear mesh, forks and more.

The 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)? Kevi

BIG BANG! How Firing Order Can Change An Engine.

Honda 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 "scre

Why did the "Normal" valve win? Poppet valves vs. Sleeve Valves vs. Rotary valves.

There 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 design

Four Banger: How the inline-four was inevitable for motorcycles.

The 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