Quote from: PachmanP on July 18, 2011, 06:32:14 PM
BURN THE WITCH!!!!!

Not gonna lie if I could get a good deal on a 07+ 1200 sporty roadster, I'd be all over it. No chain, fi, hydralic valves. I think not having a tach on most of them is kinda dumb though.

You just wait for the violent shaking of the motor tearing itself apart to know when to shift.

Quote from: ryott52 on July 18, 2011, 08:12:09 PM

Quote from: PachmanP on July 18, 2011, 06:32:14 PM
BURN THE WITCH!!!!!

Not gonna lie if I could get a good deal on a 07+ 1200 sporty roadster, I'd be all over it. No chain, fi, hydralic valves. I think not having a tach on most of them is kinda dumb though.

You just wait for the violent shaking of the motor tearing itself apart to know when to shift.

Ehh pay no atention to this. shift LONG before this would ever be an issue.

Yeah, but they redline at like 3k so do you really have a lot of time to wait?

Quote from: ryott52 on July 18, 2011, 08:57:12 PM
Yeah, but they redline at like 3k so do you really have a lot of time to wait?

shaZam! mine didnt. was between 5500 and 6k. besides it makes as much power as many gixxers down LOW in the rev range. so no need to ring it out. whereas you HAVE to ring out asportbike to get all of its advertised power

Quote from: PachmanP on July 18, 2011, 06:32:14 PM
BURN THE WITCH!!!!!

Not gonna lie if I could get a good deal on a 07+ 1200 sporty roadster, I'd be all over it. No chain, fi, hydralic valves. I think not having a tach on most of them is kinda dumb though.

Yes, belts are soooo the way to go!!! Very little maintenance. No one out there likes cleaning and lubing those things. You can get a tach too without much hassle.

They are geared for the torque and lower operating rpm...my bike redlines at 5500rpm, but will still do 220kph (138mph)...it just pulls like a freight train from 1800rpm to 5000rpm...the hardest adjustment is tuning your ear to the new shift point (I ran into my rev limitter about 10 time in the first week  )

And watch out for power wheelies in first...surprised me the first time (didn't think it would do it with a 270ish lb rider  ) 

Later.

Quote from: madjak30 on July 19, 2011, 07:43:01 AM
They are geared for the torque and lower operating rpm...my bike redlines at 5500rpm, but will still do 220kph (138mph)...it just pulls like a freight train from 1800rpm to 5000rpm...the hardest adjustment is tuning your ear to the new shift point (I ran into my rev limitter about 10 time in the first week  )

And watch out for power wheelies in first...surprised me the first time (didn't think it would do it with a 270ish lb rider  ) 

Later.

aye i DID do a PW when i rigged up the super. on my sportie. NEVER again. the FE was NOT built for that. claiming warranty on blown fork seals would NOT be easy

I may have made it sound more impressive (or stupid, depends on your view  ) than it really was...the front tire just came off the ground, not like I had it two or three feet up...we're talking an inch or two...still surprised me...

Old habbits from the GS500 die hard...

Later.

Quote from: madjak30 on July 20, 2011, 11:10:24 PM
I may have made it sound more impressive (or stupid, depends on your view  ) than it really was...the front tire just came off the ground, not like I had it two or three feet up...we're talking an inch or two...still surprised me...

Old habbits from the GS500 die hard...

Later.

lol you werent acting squidwardly so we can forgive lol

 

I wonder if converting a GS to belt drive would be feasible without lots of money or chopping cases?

I guess you can look at some Buell's for ideas possibly. I think it would be quite a challenge.

Quote from: ryott52 on July 22, 2011, 11:46:17 AM
I wonder if converting a GS to belt drive would be feasible without lots of money or chopping cases?

Yes it is ,and well, its not.
You need a front pulley off a marauder/vulcan 800 made by scootworks. They have been willing to sell me one way back when, but I have not been willing to pay for it especially when there is other small problems. The sproket retaining clip design on the GS is garbage, I would at the very least drill and tap it for a bolt and a washer to retain it.
Then of course the pulley can be no larger than ~3.6 inches if memory serves, 14mm pitch gates polychain in the 21mm wodth will work just fine, that is what the marauder and the vulcan use, and if you get a pulley from scootworks you can just bolt on and get a rear pulley made and a belt measured and buy it and be fine. I dnt believe it is any wider than the stock chain, so you will well be safer, cos a belt doesn't move around as much.

Cool.
Buddha.

Hm, that actually sounds relatively simple.

Quote from: ryott52 on July 25, 2011, 01:32:38 PM
Hm, that actually sounds relatively simple.

OK then you didn't understand what I meant to say.

Or fine you did, the bloody clutch push rod is the problem. Get rid of that POS - its on the right side of the motor and these fools put it on the left and have that idiotic rod going across ... fools, anyway, that will get you the room you need. Yamaha proper employs a right side mechanism for a right side clutch basket ... why didn't suzuki do that. Crackheads.

Lose that push rod and you can buy a gates 14mm sproket off the shelf and slap it on the gs sproket and weld/bolt those 2 and be home free The bolt togteher is better cos that allows you to adjust it left to right to align it best. You're doing it 1 time better get it spot on. The problem is gates engineering doesn't think their belt can be turned tighter than the 4.9 inch dia of the smallest pulley they make. But scootworks makes a smaller one, like a 3.9 inch, I am not thrilled with bypassing engineering design specs from the manufacturer. However the loat rating of a gates 14mm polychain is somwheer in the 100 ft lb range up to 10000 rpm. GS doesn't even dream of that.

Cool.
Buddha.

Oh if you make a mechanism that bolts to the engine case instead of the sproket cover you can easily get one of these pulleys on and be perfectly fine. That IMHO is easier than making a outboard pulling system on the right side, which really you can cannibalise off a yamaha case and mount it outboard with a puller rod fitting going through a grommet. However I can see it all ending in tears.
Cool.
Buddha.