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Tried & Tested
Tested by Alan Dowds | £103 | www.louis-moto.co.uk A chain breaker is a bit of a weird tool. Unless you’re a professional mechanic, spend loads of time changing gearing for track, or are a dispatch rider in the 1980s, the chances are you won’t use on
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One Decade, Four Generations
Over that time, there have been no less than 100,000 examples of the bike sold in Europe, and double that globally, so it’s fair to say that the model has been rather successful, and Yamaha could quite easily have rested on their laurels and kept mak
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The Mechanicals
The mechanical actuators for the clutch and gear shift are quite smart. The clutch uses a spiral linear gear arrangement: an electric motor turns a gear with a spiral groove on one face. A linkage arm has a pin which engages in the spiral, and as the

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