Moto Guzzi R&D

[Steve G.]

Reading the threads on the single plate clutch, as well as other things related to Moto Guzzi in general made me want to bring up a fact that a long time Guzzi fanatic recently related to me.

Guzzi research and development is not what you would see at, say Honda. Not enough money, not enough size, apples and oranges.

When they first designed the v-twin shaft drive layout, among other things, they had to test the shaft drive/transaxle system. This involved improving on the weak links of the system, and to show the weak links, they would push the bike up against a wall, and at very high revs, would go through a long series clutch drops, until something would break. They would then look at the part, improve on it's strength, and do it again and again, till the components were brought up to a level of reliabilty which they could live with.

Obviously their reliabilty acceptence on the single plate clutch was pretty low on that day.

Ciao, Steve G.

[gthyni]

How about a collapsing front wheel on a supersport 1000cc bike

from a big jap manufacturer:

 

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The single plate clutch has it's advantages,

but obviously a weakness too.

[Paul Minnaert]

How about a collapsing front wheel on a supersport 1000cc bike

from a big jap manufacturer

I must say the last generation jap sportbikes has very thin spokes.