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RE: [ST] Belt Drive for T5
- Subject: RE: [ST] Belt Drive for T5
- From: Neil Tracey <Neil.Tracey@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:46:38 +0100
ask BRG (aka Keith Tynan of Bristol ) he lived in Germany and is a satellite
scientist!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Ashman [mailto:joel.ashman@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 June 2001 15:25
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ST] Belt Drive for T5
>
>
> Keith,
>
> It looks like for the T5 that they try to adjust the tension
> for the belt,
> not too tight, or not too loose, so that one setting works
> for the travel
> length of the swingarm.
>
> Here's the blurb, though poorly translated:
>
> ---------
> First 700 km were put back still without entry. The adjustment of the
> tension of belt is somewhat fummelig, since the standard
> eccentric cam is to
> be adjusted only relatively roughly. The tension of belt was
> stopped loaded
> in such a way that the belt does not sag any longer in
> addition, is not
> fully strained yet, in order to have reserves when bouncing.
> -----------
>
> I guess we need to find someone on the list who speaks
> excellent German, and
> could put in a call for us to find out more info....
>
> --Joel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Keith
> Tynan
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 3:41 AM
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ST] Belt Drive for T5
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if I've missed something in the euphoria
> surrounding the belt
> drive for the strumpet
> (http://www.t5net.de/t5-riemenantrieb.htm), but I was
> always of the impression that a toothed belt had to be tensioned. This
> article shows no evidence of such a mechanism, and leads me to be
> suspicious.
>
> Earlier attempts have been made to marry belt drive with a
> single-sided
> swinging arm for sportsbikes (see following upload (sorry
> it's 200KB) from
> an article in the German "MO Magazin" from 1994, detailing the patent
> awarded to the North German firm VH (Klaus Vosteen & Hans G.
> Helms), which
> was tested for 30,000 km on a Yamaha FZR1000 by the Technishe
> Hochschule
> Hamburg - 90h@200kph, 40h@150kph, 30h@full accel in first
> gear, 11h@full
> throttle.) In essence, this had a lever to rotate the axle
> eccentric, and
> hence adjust belt tension as the suspension moved.
>
> I noticed from the current VH website
> (http://www.vh-motorradtechnik.de/ -
> again in German - so reach for your Babelfish) that they seem
> to have kept
> the idea of belt drive, but focussed more on a custom
> frame/swinging arm
> which locates the swinging arm pivot on the same axis as the
> countershaft
> sprocket. The site seems reasonably informative regarding
> their research
> vehicle, but gives little away (in words or pictures) regarding belt
> fitments to stock bikes - though the tensioner is still evident.
>
> Anyone know anything more??
>
> Regards,
> --
> BRG
> email: keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> '00 Sprint ST BRG 'Wolfram'
>
>
>
>
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