data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.105067 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (I AM the Nighthawk)
Subject: Re: Shaft-drives and Wheelies
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>Course, the only people who seem to be acting smug now probably have chain
>final drive (which, as we all know, is less efficient and has higher
} maintenance) and probably didn't know the answer at the start of the thread.
>
>Anyway, I have Laz's solemn assurance that he/she/it was serious with the 'only
>paralevers can pull "true" wheelies' assertion, whatever the hell that means.
>
>Doug Rinckes [email protected] New Zealand TSSC Ltd
>1976 BMW R100S 1960 BMW R60 1940 Indian 741A
Uh, Doug, I don't know what school of thought your from, but chain
drive are MUCH more efficient than shafties. End of story. Period.
But I will give you that shafties are much less maintenance intensive...
Ethan
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