Where are all the shaft drive bikes ?

Hi,

Have you all noticed the lack of shaft drive bikes available ?

No more Divvie, no more GTR1000, etc.etc.

Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki please take note, the people need shafties.


Even the Bible speaks of this:

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,
[in places] unknown to those who walk above ground.
Suspended far away from people.
Job 28:4

GB.

 

lol GB

 

Get shafted.

 

I googled "chain bible" and "shaft bible".

Guess which result makes more sense eheh.

 

Nope ...

Cheers
Goaty

 

Hi,

Yo

no, sorry

Honda made the Glodwing...then that was it

apart from some Moto Guzzi's

that I didn't buy...cos Honda made the Glodwing...then that was it

and me flippin' idle jets is blocked again!

 

Don't forget the venerable BMW K bike that you threw away.

And the Yamaha FJR1300 makes a very nice shaftie tourer - errrm -
sports-tourer - ummmmmm - bike.

Been using Optimax again, mate. ;-)

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Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s (gone on to better and brighter things - I hope)
'87 BMW K100RT (write-off)
'81 Yamaha Virago (XV) 750H (work in progress)
'01 Yamaha FJR1300

www.dmcsc.org.au
http://eladesom.com.au/ulysses/
# 37181

 

Nope... coz there are more shaft drive bikes available now than there
were 10 or 20 years ago, not less.

Yamaha have the FJR1300, XVS650, XVS1100, XVZ1300 (2 versions), XV1600,
XV1700 (2 versions)

Honda have the Deauville, STX1300, Gold Wing, VT750, VTX1300, VTX1800

Kawasaki have - Vulcan 800, Vulcan 1600 (3 versions), Vulcan 2000

Suzuki have - Boulevard 50 (2 versions), Boulevard C90, VZ1600 Marauder

Moto Guzzi's are all shaft drive.


Seems to me you are saying rather than a reduction of shaft drive bikes
there is a reduction in the number of basic spec touring bikes available...

To be honest I'm not sure that's so, you can buy a FJR1300 or STX1300
instead of a GTR1000 or ST1100 (ok they are more expensive, but they are
more upmarket too).

About the only bike that's gone unreplaced is the divvy... and to be
totally honest basically anything you could do with a divvy you could do
with a Deauville.


G-S

 

And I forgot the BMW's... just about all of those are shaft drive.


G-S

 

Hammo wants to know if you can tour on it? or is it a sports bike?

Beer mate?

Johno

 

....and the Valkyrie.

 

What about the old Honda 'plastic pig', the CX500 and CX650.
Also available with turbo...
Imagine a turbo on a shaft drive bike.

Cheers,
Jason

 

I was only listing current models... honda stopped making the Valkyrie
(personally I reckon it was coz they couldn't engineer all the character
out of it


G-S

 

Which one johno?

Yes please... but I'll have a coopers... you can keep your VB!


G-S

 

I've had 2 of those... the main problem they had was a lack of midrange
which led to more gear changing than ideal on a touring bike.


G-S

 

If you lot keep saying that people will notice.... ;-P

Nup, that's true (and of course I knew that)... but It was more fun this
way

The Sprint ST, the Ducati ST3 almost certainly... maybe some of the
others as well.

Goes without saying really... we are buying bikes!


G-S

 

I've actually got a Divvie you know... (a red one... coz red ones are
faster).

I've ridden the Deauville and yeah it's a fair bit slower (about 90ps vs
70ps slower), but does it really make that much difference for a (all
together now...) 'tourer' ?

To be fair the honda is probably more of a shaft drive XJ650 competitor
though...


G-S

 

Oops, sorry.
I always thought it looked like a pig, but you're quite right, maggot was
the name

Cheers,
Jason

 

Oh!.... Yeah!........

Moike

 

I rode it 1050 kms last week does that count?


G-S