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How do we avoid highsides and lowsides? By making smooth, gentle control and steering inputs, maintaining headbearings and suspensions, having good quality, serviceable tires, and not riding overpowered bikes like R1's. | How do we avoid highsides and lowsides? By making smooth, gentle control and steering inputs, maintaining headbearings and suspensions, having good quality, serviceable tires, and not riding overpowered bikes like R1's. | ||
====What is an "Italian tuneup"?==== | |||
This is running your bike hard to try to get out whatever has been building up, usually from sitting for a time. Not necessarily guaranteed to work. This is what Bill Cosby used to call "getting the guck out". | |||
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_tuneup Wikipedia]. | |||