{"id":3318,"date":"2020-01-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/tuning-il-gioco-vale-la-candela\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:15:39","slug":"tuning-it-is-always-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/tuning-it-is-always-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning, it&#8217;s always worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/250-dyno-sl.jpg\" alt=\"DynoJet Dynamometer\" width=\"1280\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/250-dyno-sl.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/250-dyno-sl-980x471.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/250-dyno-sl-480x231.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a slew of common prejudices against tuning our motorcycle engines, especially those put forward by the incompetent or biased. To quote a few: &#8220;it breaks your bike&#8221;, &#8220;the guaranty is no longer valid&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s useless&#8221;, &#8220;have you ever gone faster than 120 km\/h with your Harley?&#8221;, &#8220;do you ever race on a track?&#8221; Since I work in the field I am biased, yet I will try to advise you objectively just the same.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1952\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dyno.comparison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1952\" class=\"wp-image-1952 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dyno.comparison-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dyno graph before and after a Tuning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A good tuning doesn&#8217;t cost a mere two cents and the gains in terms of torque and power don&#8217;t always leave you open-mouthed.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the exhilarating feeling you get when you&#8217;re back on the bike after a good tuning is always true: smooth running, easy driving, exuberant torque, constant power delivery and very quick responses to the throttle.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has driven a motorcycle that has been well-tuned knows exactly what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>So, is it worth it? Yes, always.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s consider <strong>costs<\/strong>, <strong>reliability<\/strong>, and <strong>results<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Costs are truly contained<\/strong>: with our bikes, we have often spent much more on things that have proved far less useful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reliability<\/strong>: an engine tuned to perfection is more efficient. Cleaner combustion benefits the engine?s duration and reliability, reduces consumption, increases torque and power and overheats less.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong>: the joy of riding a motorbike either returns or increases, tame while cruising, powerful and rabid in &#8220;critical&#8221; situations.<\/p>\n<p>The motto is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ve never had such an amazing bike before<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, judging whether it&#8217;s worthwhile depends to a great extent on who does the tuning, I speak for myself: what I wrote is true and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/category\/insights\/\">verifiable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a slew of common prejudices against tuning our motorcycle engines, especially those put forward by the incompetent or biased. To quote a few: &#8220;it breaks your bike&#8221;, &#8220;the guaranty is no longer valid&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s useless&#8221;, &#8220;have you ever gone faster than 120 km\/h with your Harley?&#8221;, &#8220;do you ever race on a track?&#8221; Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":3339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}