MrGrumpy wrote:Data wrote:It's funny, but actually the Burgman 400 has a shaft final drive. The rear wheel is driven by a shaft, which is driven by a set of gears, which are driven by a drive belt. Errrr....just saying!
It's a quite different system of course to what we were all talking about earlier I guess. But it's a very good sytem.
Are we talking about the 650 here?? The 400 is a basic engine on swing arm rubber band drive isn't it??
Yes.
And in the right hands quite capable of two-wheel drifts up the inside of Ducatis, or ridden sidesaddle around the outside of sportsbikes while the rider nonchalantly picks his nose and looks disdainfully at the Kushitani-leathered, Arai-coiffured spurtbike owner travelling 20 miles an hour slower on a fifty mile per hour faster corner... a Burger 400 is quite capable of average journey times that make BMW S1000RR and FirePlace owners sick with envy.
And no, I'm not exaggerating.
What persons often forget is that modern motorcycle design is mired in mediocrity by mere absence of collaborative thinking when the collaborators aren't ostensibly members of the `club`. The fact is that many non-club members have drastically improved on the summary averageness of creative thinking in motorcycle technology only to be beaten back by the incessant whining of dinosaurs. Myself and a bunch of aircraft designers could solve
all motorcycle racing front end chatter, arm pump and highside problems in a single morning... and for most of the three hours we'd only be drinking coffee.
The problem often isn't the solution, it's the rules and crass lack of ability that preclude the
application of the solution.
No door is closed to an open mind.
Except a closed door, which a mind can't open, but even a stupid hand can.
(geared ones anyway)
