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December 10, 2010
Photo: police machine gun
Snapped in 1918, likely during the final stages of World War I, the NYPD proudly displays a Colt-Browning machine gun mounted to an Indian Sidecar. It’s thought the police were equipped with so much firepower in response to fears that German agents could engage in sabotage within the city or to an early version of the Red Scare prompted by the Bolshevik Revolution the year before. Of course, the...
The trouble with North American ZX-10Rs
This dyno chart shows the difference between a stock, North American 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R and one that’s had its ECU told to stop restricting throttle openings at high RPM. Both measurements include the same slip-on exhaust canister. Courtesy of Speed Tech Motorsports, this dyno chart is the best illustration we’ve yet seen of the effects caused by Kawasaki’s attempt to meet EPA noise regula...