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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Comet gear lever
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 22509" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>These are broken even BEFORE I got to them... I'm pretty sure it wasn't heavy-footedness that broke them, but contact with tarmac. Note me not being outraged at the suggestion that I'm heavy footed, me with ballet-dancer size nine (UK) feet...</p><p></p><p>When one looks into the box one can see that Rudi Shaffleitner had no part in its design. No wonder the lever breaks: the double gear must have an inertia measured in foot-tons. (The Shaffleitner six-speed has a steel lever that appears not to move. When the needle hits 7200, or whatever, one presses the lever, apparently fixed solidly to the box, and the revs drop by 800. I know it DOES move, it just doesn't move much. On the other hand it's the kind of box wonderfully described as having six gears: a starting gear and five tops.) </p><p></p><p>Incidentally, the least buggered gear lever has a perfect spline. Unfortunately it is smaller than the Vincent spline...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 22509, member: 4034"] These are broken even BEFORE I got to them... I'm pretty sure it wasn't heavy-footedness that broke them, but contact with tarmac. Note me not being outraged at the suggestion that I'm heavy footed, me with ballet-dancer size nine (UK) feet... When one looks into the box one can see that Rudi Shaffleitner had no part in its design. No wonder the lever breaks: the double gear must have an inertia measured in foot-tons. (The Shaffleitner six-speed has a steel lever that appears not to move. When the needle hits 7200, or whatever, one presses the lever, apparently fixed solidly to the box, and the revs drop by 800. I know it DOES move, it just doesn't move much. On the other hand it's the kind of box wonderfully described as having six gears: a starting gear and five tops.) Incidentally, the least buggered gear lever has a perfect spline. Unfortunately it is smaller than the Vincent spline... [/QUOTE]
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