Karl Snarl
Well-Known Member
I'd rather they tell me if my stuff is garbage and why, than lie because they wanna touch my wiener. lol. I never understood the popular game, I never was, never cared about who was cooler, and who was the nerd. Because quite frankly, I was the nerd, and I knew it.I have fault with some stuff from an engineering standpoint... It seems it matters more who does it than anything else... for an example RDM hard clutch pads and hard steel plate... When soft and cast iron since 1931 solved the problem of hard on hard and soft on soft... Hydraulic and cable brakes... But I don't want to invest into trying to sell 90 year old technology advances to anyone who believes new is always better and because it's popular has to be the best... The drug that they have to do to accept backwards technology must be incredible... I wasn't born in the right geographic location to have any street cred so I have to know nothing... I'll try not to share any uncomfortable tech that contradictory to the BS artist and compromise the BS artist game there playing... Because that's more important
I always wondered why the pads got harder and harder. I like the clay/rubber pads best, they slip a little for take off, and rather than jerk my sprockets around and wear and break stuff, they slip enough to help longevity of other components much harder and more expensive to change. I know everyone else likes those pads that grip hard and have a wire in them, that wire screws the clutch. Destroys the bearings. I have a bike getting ready to top 4500 miles I think it is, everything looks great!! Stock clutch, 3.5-4hp bike, rides like a mini 5 speed dirt bike, good on gas, and never had any problems yet. On a shifter, that extra little bit of slip really helps to keep bike side parts alive longer. Thin cogs don't last long, it's why I hunt down NOS specialty cogs, which are so rare, I'm never telling anyone what they are. I may have the last 8 of them in the world. lol
The red pads are what I use, when heated up, the grip great, when coming off the line, they slip enough to act similar to a motorcycle clutch.