Does anyone remember when a motorcycle battery was $28.00 and you replaced it once every two years? You would let it sit over winter and most people wouldn’t even charge them until the day they wanted to go riding. The were mostly manufactured by Yuasa...
What is engine blueprinting and balancing? Engine blueprinting is the fine art of going through an engine and putting things to your specifications. Stock “crate” engines run, and you can get a really good stock engine, sometimes, but for every good engine...
Born in 1966, the Shovelhead engine was about to make it’s mark in Harley-Davidson history. Production ran 18 years from 1966 to 1984. In 1979 they went from a displacement of 74 cubic inches to the infamous 80 incher. Like anything they had their share of p...
The low down on the high energy power for your motorcycle! Whenever electricity is involved in a discussion you can bet there will be a lot of misinformation involved, if coming from the misinformed. The first thing to start with here with will be ignition coi...
Knock-Knock-Knock…….Who’s there???…hope it ain’t be da Poe-lice…..! It’s summer and it’s hot as hell in Texas all over again and when the road surface is 150 degrees and possibly hotter, that means the engine is probably running a little warmer...
When the word performance is brought up most people immediately think of engine related items such as exhaust systems and mufflers, air filters, camshafts and so on. Here at Alien Cycle performance isn’t just limited to the engine, or words like horsepower a...
Many people don’t know the difference between powder coating and paint. So they go and just powder coat everything not fully realizing the consequences. Powder coating is a thermoset polymer or a thermoplastic. It is a dry powder that is electrostatically ap...