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From: [email protected] (Doug Rinckes)
Subject: Re: Shaft-drives and Wheelies
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In article [email protected], [email protected] (Randy Davis) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>|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.
>
> When did *you* go out and change the laws of physics? :-) According to some
>numbers I used to see bandied around, shaft drive is on the order of 95-97%
>efficient, while chain drive is closer to 99%... Seems to me that this makes
>*chain* drive more efficient, hmmmmm???
>
> And granted, shaft has a lot less maintenance, which is fine, if you don't
>mind less performance... :-) :-)
>
>Randy Davis Email: [email protected]
>ZX-11 #00072 Pilot {uunet!ucsd}!megatek!randy
OK. And you regularly ride your bike to within 2% of it's maximum capability?
(Note any idiot can go flat out on a bike - most of them do.)
Anyway, efficient at what? A shaft drive is a much more efficient solid (erect) lump
of metal than a floppy (flaccid, unsatisfying) chain.
Doug Rinckes [email protected] New Zealand TSSC Ltd
1976 BMW R100S 1960 BMW R60 1940 Indian 741A