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Old 05-22-2008, 08:44 AM   #21 (permalink)
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the real advantage of the chain drive, besides less power loss is torque.

Under hard acceleration, the rear of the bike will actually lift from the rotational torque from the drive shaft. Or something like that.

Knew a guy in college who had a 750 Yamaha Seca. Under hard acceleration the rear tire would actually fishtail. It was a pretty scary sight to see.
I remember the Seca Turbo. The first bike I ever saw to do a burnout for roughly a hundred yards (to my young inexperienced twelve year old eyes).
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now a guy at work bought an 1985 Maxim X.

Because if it doesn't have 5 valves / cylinder, how fast can it go?
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Lol, I owned an '85 Yamaha Maxim for a few years back in the early 90s.

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