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I put the arse end of the busa in the air tonight and I pulled the rear wheel to take it and a new OEM replacement BT056 to the local stealer for M&B. I plopped the wheel on the tailgate of my truck and gently pulled the cush drive. To my horror, three of the six rubbers were destroyed.
At first blush, I figured that's what I get for owning a bike weighing the better part of 600 pounds wet and spitting out 100 lb-ft torque at the tire. But then I got to looking and decided perhaps it wasn't me after all.
I didn't snap photos (I wish now I would have), but one side of all three bad rubbers are twisted over at about a 90, as if the guy who put the bike together at the factory eased the fins on one side of the cush drive home, then forced the other side in place. I think he got one of the three fins on the opposite side of the sprocket carrier hung up on the rubber(s) and either used a mallet to drive the SOB home or maybe just gave it one hell of a shove before putting the rear wheel on and calling it a day.
I cannot fathom how these things would twist from being subjected to alot of hp and torque. Ground down to a shabby ruin? Yes. Twisted? Sorry, not buying that.
So I'm in a something of a debate with the service manager at the stealer. He says it's a wear item and they're doing what they're supposed to be doing. I say if it was wear from abuse, all six of the rubber pieces in the cush drive would be wearing equally (or close to equally), but three on one side are pristine; three on the other side are ruined (think of the whole cush drive in terms of two half-circles for me here).
It'll get resolved tomorrow when my buddy who is GM of the place sets the record straight, but I hate dealing with these service guys who, sometimes anyway, seem to know less about my bike than I do.
At first blush, I figured that's what I get for owning a bike weighing the better part of 600 pounds wet and spitting out 100 lb-ft torque at the tire. But then I got to looking and decided perhaps it wasn't me after all.
I didn't snap photos (I wish now I would have), but one side of all three bad rubbers are twisted over at about a 90, as if the guy who put the bike together at the factory eased the fins on one side of the cush drive home, then forced the other side in place. I think he got one of the three fins on the opposite side of the sprocket carrier hung up on the rubber(s) and either used a mallet to drive the SOB home or maybe just gave it one hell of a shove before putting the rear wheel on and calling it a day.
I cannot fathom how these things would twist from being subjected to alot of hp and torque. Ground down to a shabby ruin? Yes. Twisted? Sorry, not buying that.
So I'm in a something of a debate with the service manager at the stealer. He says it's a wear item and they're doing what they're supposed to be doing. I say if it was wear from abuse, all six of the rubber pieces in the cush drive would be wearing equally (or close to equally), but three on one side are pristine; three on the other side are ruined (think of the whole cush drive in terms of two half-circles for me here).
It'll get resolved tomorrow when my buddy who is GM of the place sets the record straight, but I hate dealing with these service guys who, sometimes anyway, seem to know less about my bike than I do.
