Night Train Qustion
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From: Hutto Texas
First step You need to assk yourself what u want out of a bike and Where are you going to do most of your riding. IMO The softtails are softer than a rigid and wont make your back teeth rattle like the older sportys but, they are not soft. My 96 is rigid mounted motor, and the twin cams i hear are smoother plus i think the newer STs are rubber mounted motors but im not positive. Good luck and do your home work you'll be happy and wont waste time and coins. EZD
And Oh My God...looking on line at used bikes...Alot of these dealers need to put down the pipe...Asking crazy prices on bikes with over 30,000 plus miles on them....
you can pm me your email address if you want pics. I've got well over 30k in it, looking for 18k in dallas, tx.
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i have to disagree. while helical gears are quieter they are not weeker or cheeper, they're just as strong and more expensive to make then straight cut gears. helical gears arent less efficient at transfering power, they more evenly distribute the load on the gear and have less play. and on the 07 bikes, 1st and 5th gear are still straight cut, cause those are the gears most people will "jam" most often, and on hard shifting, they will engage quicker then helical.
Helical gears sure are less efficient at transferring power. I suggest you get a few classes of mechanical engineering under your belt before debating this subject. Or go down to your local drag strip and find out why you wont find any serious racers with helical cut gears in their trannies. Anyway, the first few years the 6 speed "cruise drive transmission was employed on the Dyna models they had problems galore with SIDE LOADING on the shaft bearings. People were smoking trannies in less than 10k miles. HD even had a disclaimer on the issue when the new Dynas came out. In fact HD had to redesign the tranny case and the shaft bearings to withstand the side loading of their new tranny.
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