re shaft drives and wheelies in article megatek com randy megatek com randy davis writes in article apr asl dl nec com drinckes tssc wlg nec co jp writes course the only people who seem to be acting smug now probably have chain final drive which as we all know is less efficient and has higher maintenance and probably didn t know the answer at the start of the thread when did you go out and change the laws of physics according to some numbers i used to see bandied around shaft drive is on the order of efficient while chain drive is closer to seems to me that this makes chain drive more efficient hmmmmm and granted shaft has a lot less maintenance which is fine if you don t mind less performance randy davis email randy megatek com zx pilot uunet ucsd megatek randy ok and you regularly ride your bike to within of it s maximum capability note any idiot can go flat out on a bike most of them do anyway efficient at what a shaft drive is a much more efficient solid erect lump of metal than a floppy flaccid unsatisfying chain doug rinckes drinckes tssc wlg nec co jp new zealand tssc ltd bmw r s bmw r indian a
