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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Michael Uhlarik on Motorcycle Modifications Are you getting what you really want and can you even tell? Michael Uhlarik is a veteran motorcycle designer, and has been involved in designing for big name brands such as Yamaha, Aprilia, Bombardier and...

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The Oh, yeah. What goes into designing a motorcycle? What does it really take?

0:25.0

What goes into designing a motorcycle?

0:31.0

I mean, what does it really take? We all have seen these incredible builds from the custom

0:35.9

motorcycle builders, a bobber, a cruiser, or a scrambler. They look incredible and they're all done in a garage, maybe with one or two people

0:45.2

working in there. So why do the manufacturers take so much time to produce or even make a modification

0:51.3

to a new model.

0:53.0

Or how about your bike, for instance?

0:55.0

When you did modify it, how did your modifications

0:58.0

affect the overall performance?

1:00.0

And we like to think that our mods always improve but do they and how can you tell or can you even tell?

1:07.0

And when a new bike hits the market and the company says the frame has been stiffened by 15% or the shocks are now a larger diameter, what does that really tell us?

1:15.4

Well today we have a motorcycle designer that is quite willing to speak, well rather frankly,

1:20.8

about what goes on behind the usually closed doors of motorcycle design.

1:26.0

And what he has to say may not only surprise you, but it might even make you mad.

1:30.0

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