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After getting hit by and S-10 Blazer I took on the project of rebuilding my Derbi Atlantis scooter rather than buying a new one.

It all began a few months ago with an idea to bring "scootering" back into the mainstream. "What New Hampshire needs is a scooter club", I thought to myself. After this past Sunday's ride, it is evident that the club will be growing quickly.

Orlando's High Endurance SC sets their own style.

By Frinj.com motorcycle reporter Tim Dati

Changing the power band of your dirt bike engine is simple when you know the basics. A myriad of different aftermarket accessories is available for you to custom tune your bike to better suit your needs. The most common mistake is to choose the wrong combination of engine components, making the engine run worse than stock. Use this as a guide to inform yourself on how changes in engine components can alter the powerband of bike's engine. Use the guide at the end of the chapter to map out your strategy for changing engine components to create the perfect power band.

Let's keep this simple...we need to cool engines because they create heat during the combustion process. The more heat generated, the more difficult it becomes to get rid of that heat. As you raise compression ratios and run the engine at higher rpm's, at some point with an air-cooled engine, you just can't make the cooling fins any larger, can't fit any more on, and you can't blow enough air over those fins to get rid of the heat faster than it is being produced. This is when the dreaded "piston seizure" usually takes place.

The swami has been hearing a lot of nonsense around the gas pumps these days. People are tanking up with the "good" stuff because the commercials imply that it's better for their engine. When the oil companies use superlatives like "Super", "Extra" and "High"...well it must be better, right? And of course they wouldn't be charging $0.10 - $0.20 more unless they were putting some really good stuff in there, right? Sorry...