Bikers Youtube thread
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Soldato
I watched this last night, the gearing is interesting although I assume it's lost 1st in the last 40 years rather than never having one?
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The hi-lo ability is really cool though, even if it doesn't have 1st. 
Normally if a car loses one gear the others follow sharpish as big chunks of metal are then floating about the gearbox, I don't know how bike ones work to know if it's similar or common.
Normally if a car loses one gear the others follow sharpish as big chunks of metal are then floating about the gearbox, I don't know how bike ones work to know if it's similar or common.
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They are usually a few gears linked together, being sequential. So if you lose say 1st you might lose 6th also, 2 and 4 etc, just as an example, I can't remember which gears are linked.
When my gearbox went it was the dogbone that was worn so that wasn't engaging the gears properly and eventually chewed them up.
When my gearbox went it was the dogbone that was worn so that wasn't engaging the gears properly and eventually chewed them up.
They hand CBTs out to pretty much anyone.
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Good watch though, love the 44T guys.
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I love how predictable this Italian budget bike battle will be. Already living up to expectations on the bike reliability!
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I love the way that the Ducati is optimistically described as dependable, to compensate for the power gap...!
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I have to say, that MV makes my Aprilia look reliable!! It's like it could literally implode at any point!
I have to take a little offence to one of their comments under the first video:
For under £5k they would have gotten an RSV1000 Factory with ohlins, radial brembos, and as much power as the 999 made, and if they went for a Gen1 mille then £3k would get a cracker. Not quite sure what's 'budget' about a £6500 bike!! Anyway, I can see both these bikes breaking down spectacularly - my money is on the MV going BANG at about 10k rpm at some point and depositing a piston or 2 as well as all it's fluids on the road
Man of Honour
That noise
Absolutely beautiful!
That noise
Soldato
If Triumph don't make a production bike on the back of that it will be a crime.
Earporn. About the only term I can think of to describe it.
The engine is obviously the Moto2 power unit but what about the rest of the bike? I noticed that the top yoke on this bike still has the mounting point for an ignition barrel so it's obviously from a road bike, do the teams build their own bikes around the engine?
The engine is obviously the Moto2 power unit but what about the rest of the bike? I noticed that the top yoke on this bike still has the mounting point for an ignition barrel so it's obviously from a road bike, do the teams build their own bikes around the engine?
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Fairly surprised this hasn't been posted and I'm sure some of you will have watched it (along with many of his other videos) but The Missenden Flyer did the Arctic Circle and videoed it, 35ish min episodes each one and he's published 4 so far.