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hi? I am an 18 year old CB1100EX owner living in South Korea.

Welcome to the forum, Traumend.

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Nice image Traumend. Welcome to the Forum!

This should produce some fun images....they have access to so many great mods you never see over here.

Hello and welcome to the forum, Traumend.

(02-26-2024, 01:12 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: [ -> ]its from webike, I order stuff from there all the time. I'd never run stack on a street bike, but it looks cool. welcome to the forum.

For those of us less mechanically inclined, out of curiosity, why is that?

(02-26-2024, 07:19 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: [ -> ]1: not still air it's pulling from. longer runners and a still air box will provide better flow. 2: dirt, dirt, and dirt. it will suck in anything thrown up or around. 3: rain.

Ah, makes sense.

Supporting m in sc's first point is the fact that the airbox is a resonant chamber.

see the explanation here. http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/Airboxes.html

(02-26-2024, 10:55 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Supporting m in sc's first point is the fact that the airbox is a resonant chamber.

see the explanation here. http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/Airboxes.html

That just reinforces my conclusions that performance modifications are far outside of my (and probably most people's) expertise. It's hard for me to easily dismiss the engineering expertise of people that spend their entire careers perfecting their knowledge and experience. However, most car and motorcycle forum I have visited typically have a number of "essential" modifications everyone does. To me they seem to be more fad than improvement. The article touches on exactly that with the old mod most of us probably remember about opening up the air box. While I don't particularly care for the CalSci windscreen I bought for my FJR, they do have a lot of great information on their site. Their windscreen cleaning formula for example, works brilliantly.