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03-08-05, 07:18 PM | #1 |
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03-08-05, 08:40 PM | #2 |
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I don't know of a firm that makes them for the ZX6, (although I'm sure they're out there somewhere), but I doubt I'd fit a lighter flywheel to a roadbike, as the factories are pretty good at getting this right nowadays so there are rather less gains to be had over standard than there used to be. There are some theoretical advantages, less mass so better pickup, but for a bike that spends it's life on the road this often translates as rubbish tickover, (you need to set it quite high or it'll stall), and awkward low speed/traffic running. Racebikes often have them - they spend no time at low revs and therefore don't need much flywheel, - although this is often as a side effect of fitting a self exciting ignition rotor and not requiring a generator, rather than the specific desire to reduce crank/rotating mass.
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03-08-05, 10:01 PM | #3 |
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Whilst not wishing to add to your busted bits anguish, in what way is the rotor damaged? I ask this as if the rotor has taken a whack I'd be wondering if the crank was still perfectly true, and if the main was damaged, I've attended to a number of bikes that have has a knock on the crank/rotor and a small number have damaged either the crank and/or run through the top layer of the shells.
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03-08-05, 10:30 PM | #4 |
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I wonder how much a decent condition engine would be?
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07-08-05, 04:42 PM | #5 |
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If it really is just a small ding right on the edge then I reckon there's room for optimism, all the same I'd get the rotor off and rig up a dial gauge for preference or even just a pointer near the outside end of the crank, a few turns of the crank will tell you if anything is amiss.
Fingers crossed but I reckon you'll most likely be OK.
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07-08-05, 05:40 PM | #6 |
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Couldn't you just get it skimmed at an engineering firm
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07-08-05, 10:26 PM | #7 |
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I'd be wary of using a damaged, however slightly, rotor, when your motor is spinning at 14,000 rpm the consequences of it giving up a magnet or worse are too horrible to consider, now that may well be a counsel of perfection but the forces contained within the rotor at high speed are truly enormous.
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11-08-05, 12:31 PM | #9 |
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I know you do on an RS125, not sure about the SV though im afraid
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