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It might be worthwhile to expand the question to be more of who will create a non-chain drive adventure bike. BMW went down that route. HD has as well. It's a lot lighter than a shaft and eliminates the chain oiling and maintenance.
Chris
1. LBS As an ex-BMW owner (12 of them, slow learner) I'm not even slightly surprised. I have two Harleys with belt drives. I have plenty of options for belts and pulleys and no such evidence of poor engineering. If you buy a BMW expect to be treated like you are stupid and very rich.
2. BMW created the Adventure Bike segment with a mid-sized (800 cc) shaft drive bike, the R80GS. The R80GS is now a highly sought after collector's item.
3. The Buell Ulysses worked well in limited off roading with belt drive. When there was a report of a problem is was nearly always not catastrophic (rode the bike home) and the rider would generally admit he had removed the bet guards so the bike would "look better".
The correct question is who will build a modern mid-sized Adventure Bike with a shaft.
Goose
I would buy that bike in a heart beat today!Apparently, the general motorcycling public (or at least North America for sure, siiiigh) is unwilling to buy, or too stupid and unworthy to rate getting a fraction of the cool bikes Honda made way back in the 1980's.
Hydraulic valves, shaft drive, air/oil cooled 750cc VTwin
Honda XLV750R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1983
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1. LBS As an ex-BMW owner (12 of them, slow learner) I'm not even slightly surprised. I have two Harleys with belt drives. I have plenty of options for belts and pulleys and no such evidence of poor engineering. If you buy a BMW expect to be treated like you are stupid and very rich.
2. BMW created the Adventure Bike segment with a mid-sized (800 cc) shaft drive bike, the R80GS. The R80GS is now a highly sought after collector's item.
3. The Buell Ulysses worked well in limited off roading with belt drive. When there was a report of a problem is was nearly always not catastrophic (rode the bike home) and the rider would generally admit he had removed the bet guards so the bike would "look better".
The correct question is who will build a modern mid-sized Adventure Bike with a shaft.
Goose
You mean like the title of this thread?
Technically the thread title is who will build the first shaft drive adv, not the first MODERN shaft drive adv, as Goose points out.
hmmm...ok, but seeing as it's future tense how could it not be modern?
I do,nt care,,,still think it looks great..and anyway Cindi did not have a bad pair of legs on her!!!Holy Crow that bike couldn't look more 80's if Cindi Lauper was sitting on it!