01-14-2017, 09:02 AM
(01-14-2017, 08:24 AM)Capo_imp Wrote: Yes, they all do 'pretty good' and if the guy on the Goldwing was on a Sport bike, with a chain drive, he'd probably do a little bit better. I just read a story about a guy who went round the world on a Bonnie with zero failures of any sort, so it's not hard to find anecdotes to support virtually any position.
I am and I know plenty of people who enjoy a whole lot of motorcycling miles who don't pine for a shaft or belt on anything other than a 700 pound lounge chair, and who feel that any potential cost of chain versus catastrophic shaft failure isn't worth splitting hairs over if the far more common, proven and easy to change gearing and breeze to fix chain drive delivers the superior performance they're looking for. The motorcycle industry isn't exactly running to shaft drive, is it? I'd like to think that the CB, with its Air cooling, chain, wire wheels and lack of any mod cons, isn't completely outmoded and unsuited for anything but pushing around the garage! At least it doesn't have points!
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Possibly... but it really boils down to rider ability and not drive system doesn't it?
I'm not going to beat Marquez around a racetrack even if he were on a 800 pound Goldwing with a shaft and I was on a 420 pound RC213VS with a chain and "probably" most wouldn't either.
Admittedly around a race track with 2 equal riders and 2 equal bikes, 1 shaft driven, one chain driven, the one on the chain would probably win, but we aren't riding on racetracks, we are riding on public highways.
(01-14-2017, 08:24 AM)Capo_imp Wrote: Yes, they all do 'pretty good' and if the guy on the Goldwing was on a Sport bike, with a chain drive, he'd probably do a little bit better. I just read a story about a guy who went round the world on a Bonnie with zero failures of any sort, so it's not hard to find anecdotes to support virtually any position.
I am and I know plenty of people who enjoy a whole lot of motorcycling miles who don't pine for a shaft or belt on anything other than a 700 pound lounge chair, and who feel that any potential cost of chain versus catastrophic shaft failure isn't worth splitting hairs over if the far more common, proven and easy to change gearing and breeze to fix chain drive delivers the superior performance they're looking for. The motorcycle industry isn't exactly running to shaft drive, is it? I'd like to think that the CB, with its Air cooling, chain, wire wheels and lack of any mod cons, isn't completely outmoded and unsuited for anything but pushing around the garage! At least it doesn't have points!
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Wow 25,000 miles around the world on a single chain. If he'd have had a shaft he could have kept going and gone around the world 3 more times or more and not worried about it
