justin_o_guy2
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Ya done good, Row. That can only expand the level of awareness these little bikes exist. Just getting them mentioned & that there are easy fixes for little nagging design shortcomings can only pique the interest of the readers. If you could get him to make mention of the Verslavy in another issue, thatd be cool. Wouldnt it be great if suzuki saw enough interest in the bike to justify doing some re-design work?
What would I wanna see?
Ditch that chrome trash can of a muffler & put Dynas on.
fix the tensioner so it doesnt just rip thru the life of the chain.
IMO, the teeth are too close together & the mount itself ( Im just now chewing on this, so, if its laffably moronic, give me a break, it just popped in my head, I havent sat & contemplated how things would have to work, it may be a mechanical impossibility, IDK yet) mite possibly be allowed to absorb a few millimeters of travel. I just cant help but believe
theres a way to change the way the tensioner works that would increase the life of the chain tremendously. Seeing these guys report their tensioner is on its last mm with just over 12,000 miles is just not cool.
The unpredictability of it is a problem. Variables that I see , in order of
%age of impact on wear rate (* based on MY best S.W.A.G.) are
Number of warm up/cool down cycles per mile driven.
I see that as The Number One cause of premature chain wearing.
I know hard acceleration means that chain has to yank that cam speed up
so, thats gotta increase wear at the pins.
Letting it sit long enough for oil to drain out of pressure points cant be good, but thats only gonna happen once a year.
choice of oil? Yea,, maybe, but if youve got an oil thats good enough for the valve train, its good enough for that chain, Id bet.
* S.W.A.G. is Scientific Wild A55 Guess. Got me 1/2 credit on a test question in Chemistry in college.
Question was,, given 2 elements ( one acid, one base) we were supposed to calculate the %age of completeness of reaction, based on
how they would react to one another due to their electrons in the outer shells. Heck, man,, I couldnt do the math, but I could see it was gonna be a pretty hot reaction, not explosive, but pretty quick, &, of course
Show your work was part of the ?,,, so, I guessed at it (70%, says I)
& put SWAG method in the work space. Prof asked me up to explain,, I was within 1% on the answer,, & he gave me a break,,
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