Re: 10 speed tranny on a cb900, how does it work?

Posted by erithanis on Oct 25, 2012; 6:11am
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shinyribs wrote

Ok,thanks...sound like it would just been easier to put in a 6th gear

My understanding is that they already needed to do some finagling to re-use the goldwing GL shaft drive on the 900 engine, re-routing the drive power from one side to the other. Somewhere along the design preocess an engineer went "hey, guess what we could ALSO do with these gears"