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From: Salad Dodger on 13 May 2010 19:37
On Thu, 13 May 2010 23:35:50 +0100, "Hog"
<sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>I've seen a Ferrari F1 engine dismantled. It had a multi place dry clutch
>with carbon fible plates.

Do you have a cleft keyboard?
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 May 2010 20:57
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Hog"
<sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> saying something like:

>I've seen a Ferrari F1 engine dismantled. It had a multi place dry clutch
>with carbon fible plates.

Not surprising.
From: The Older Gentleman on 14 May 2010 02:12
malc <malwhite1(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
> One of the reasons I got rid of my RS was the dry clutch. Ok it wasn't
> slipping and had done 50k miles but I was doing a lot more stop/start
> commuting and by what I'd read those clutches don't take kindly to a lot of
> that. The BMW clutch is a real task to change, apparently (according to the
> people in the BMW forum I used to frequent) BMW would charge something in
> the order of �700 + to change it and an independant would be at least �500.

BMW have always built their bikes around the clutches (and the
batteries). Fortunately, they do seem long-lived.


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From: CT on 14 May 2010 04:01
Andy Bonwick wrote:

> Dry clutches sound great when they're rattling like a bag of spanners.

Kiran's 1098 does have certain "je ne sais quois" about it, yes.

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Chris
From: Malc on 14 May 2010 04:06
On 14 May, 09:01, "CT" <m...(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
> Andy Bonwick wrote:
> > Dry clutches sound great when they're rattling like a bag of spanners.
>
> Kiran's 1098 does have certain "je ne sais quois" about it, yes.
>
Mine rattled a bit too. The garage told me it was ok so I never
worried about it. It didn't get much worse over the time I owned it.

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Malc
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