[Spridgets] Bikes at Speed

Ron Soave soavero at yahoo.com
Thu May 20 15:01:01 MDT 2010


Major weak point discussed in great length in many places. Double bearing hubs
and aftermarket axle cottage industry is alive and well as a result.

Ron

--- On Thu, 5/20/10, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Spridgets] Bikes at Speed
> To: jfishbein at snet.net
> Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 1:43 PM
> Only two times did I take my 1550cc
> Road King up to 100. .  and that in
> front of Mono Lake in Ca where there was no one around but
> my buddies riding
> behind me.
>
> Every summer we would ride from the top of Tahoe down the
> West side, out on
> to 395 by Mono Lake and up into Yosemite, back side of the
> park through the
> tunnels up to Glacier Point.  Five hundred mile
> day.  By the time I finally
> got home I didn't care if I ever rode again.
>
> Question for the list. .
>
> I ran into a guy today who used to have a 64 Sprite. 
> He told me that he
> would break his rear axles.  I told him that I have
> never had that problem.
> He said that he was hard on his car and that if you hit the
> rear down at an
> angle they are likely to snap at the ends.
>
> Is this fairly common with our cars or was this guy a
> maniac of some sort
> really pushing his car too hard on bumpy surfaces?
>
> I was not aware that this is a potential weak point?
>
> Kirk
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