Re: Belly scrape

[Mike Fleming <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jonathan Schulster" <Schulster@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> Sorry Mike.  I did not write that....it was attached to my response to that
> mail.

Right, I get confused by these replies at the top and quoted text
below with no quotey characters. Personally, I blame Bill Gates.

> My message was that IMHO the 'thinned down' EFI engine was probably not as
> robust as the pre-97 885cc carb version, since it weighed some 20-30kg more. 

Possibly not, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't last (in
practical terms) as long. If the Trident engine would last 1,000,000
miles and the T5 engine only 500,000 miles, just how many riders would
ever encounter the problem?

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Mike Fleming

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