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[QUOTE="jmics19067, post: 641453, member: 27963"] To tell you the truth Rich I am setting on the fence on that one. I am not sure how I feel about it basicly only because of the wording. I have learned a great deal here , more than I ever had, than by reading a magazine. It is a waste of magazine paper for all these high buck mods that they push with no breakdown on the attention to detail. Thats the part that gets me with the mags, here we have a brand new motorcycle, lets send half of it off to california<short trip for them> to get my exhaust pipe polished and treat my suspension to some titanium fork springs with a billet front brake hose holder type stuff.Yet they never break down and explain accurately how to jet, how to read plugs, what you want<don't want> in a fuel and how to set up your suspension properly. The areas that vastly improve todays bike are yes; cheap, easily read in DR.N, and commonly left out of the mags for fluff but are more towards getting the rider to understand how the bike should run.Invaluable yes, information that seems to be secret in the other forms of media or just pushed out because of schmoozing the advertisers for their fluff. Not necessarily vastly improving the bike but getting the bike to run the way it should. I meant that the times have changed in that if you have a new bike and you set it up properly for your conditions it will be more than enough for most people compared to remove the simple cross lacing on your front wheel and do a cross 3 lacing before you waffle your rim tip from the old days. I really don't think that the majority of bike owners need to improve the bike.The improvement needs to be done to the bike owner /home tuner. That is where I believe the difference is . I am going to use you as an example here but You don't want me to buy a particular pipe/ silencer combo because they just happen to give you more advertising money this month that may or may not improve my performance. You want to teach me that to get good performance you need to have a good burn in the combustion chamber.However I spend my money to get that performance is of no importance to you as long as good solid fundamentals went behind the thought process. I stand by original statement in that freebie massive improvements to the bike are not as necessary these days,but the mass freebie improvement of how people think and what people should look for when searching for improvements is something that DR.N is head and shoulders above the mags [/QUOTE]
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