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Did you sell these?

Perhaps I'm a jerk, but I really appreciate people making the smallest of efforts with spelling and punctuation. Your sentence was hard to read. I'm not asking for perfection on a forum, but just try to make it look a little better than the last lazy booty call text you sent out. Having a torque wrench, a shop manual, and not ham fisting everything is key in a shop. Also pay attention to your threads and any grease, oil, lube, threadlocker, etc. that has accumulated because 10 inch pounds won't strip a dry 8mm bolt, but it might if it's covered in grease.

Very interesting! Oddly enough that is something to consider with both shop projects going on right now. My brother has a 65 beetle that we are rebuilding, turbo, IRS pan, coil front, etc. I'll have to do some more digging on that. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Thanks for the tip! I'll try to get a look at a R6 clutch side by side with a Banshee clutch some time. As for now, I'll work on jetting and just ride the piss out of it.

I agree. I'll get it jetted properly and see what gear it likes to be in on tight, twisty road corner exits. Just cruising though it feels like I could drop a tooth ot two up front. It's fine. Thanks for clarifying. I'm not too worried about the transmission's ability to handle gobs of staightline power. The only bike tranny I've ever broken was downshifting during an aggressive corner entry on the Buell. Who knows where the wear and tear mostly came from that caused the failure but that it happened while downshifting is always something I've tried to keep in mind during this build. Dropping a ton of gears and backing it in is what a lot of the appeal of a supermoto. Plus I have yet to find a Banshee set up with a slipper and it would be kind of neat to say I have the first slipper clutch banshee. One guy at a shop I visited today suggested to just sell the Marchesinis and go with a spoked wheel and a standard cush hub. No fucking way! Like N2fast said, tranny parts are cheap and I'd rather the bike look like a million bucks and break every now and then v. having a run of the mill reliable bike. I need to find a yamaha shop worth a damn that might have a YZ or YFZ 450 clutch and a banshee clutch laying around so we can compare and contrast to see how far off the parts are. Thanks for all the ideas and replies.

Ah damn, gotta love forums! Every street bike with over 40hp comes a cush drive nowadays, the RZ 350 came with a cush drive, so I apologize for expressing a concern and desire to add a little bit of shock dampening to the driveline. Yes, I don't have a 100% understanding of the innerworkings of every moto/ATV transmission, hence the question. Fuck it, I'll just blindly go about my business and when something happens I'll shout "But who could have seen this coming?" What I gather from your shit post is that cush drive/sprockets and slipper clutches exist in the realm of moto fairy tales. So what are these real world solutions you have an almighty knowledge of? Anyway, to N2fast, my concern stems from what I alluded to earlier in this post. Yamaha sees fit to put a cush drive on most of their street bikes these days and they saw fit to put one on the oh so similar to the banshee, RZ350. I've read about Rekluse, slipper clutches, cush drives, etc and spoke with others in the industry for their opinion. Most have thought it worthwhile to pursue something to isolate the tranny from the shocks of the pavement. I haven't found anything off the shelf that will work for my application so I asked about cross fitting. So hopefully someone may know of somt tip or trick. If they don't that's fine, perhaps they will just go on with their business and not be a dick about things. I've watched many a banshee drag video but can't always be sure of the inner workings of their tranny. Plus, the forces acting upon those gears are different when accelerating down a dragstrip versus downshifting entering a corner. I'm not doing anything tomorrow or operating with haste. Just trying to head off any potential issues. If it's an imagined issue, great, someone will tell me and I will move on to the next thing.

I got my project bike up and running but the website for Kush sprockets is more useless than ever and I fear they are out of business. So my planned way to lessen shock on the drivetrain is out the window. I want to keep my rear wheel but it doesn't have a cush drive and I'm concerned about the longevity of my tranny on the pavement. So my next solution involves getting a slipper clutch that you see on the four stroke street bikes, supermotos, and I now see Yamaha putting them in the YFZ450 to limit the back torque that is making its way to the tranny. So here is my question. Does the Banshee clutch share parts with any other Yamaha bikes? Perhaps some four stroke? Maybe if I was a machinist I could buy a slipper clutch and make it work in the Banshee. I've been scouring parts fiches with no luck so I figured I'd ask. I wonder how different the clutches can be? A basket some plates and springs? Something has to work wouldn't you think? If you have any other ideas to limit back torque on the transmission, I am all ears! Thanks!

Thanks for the info. I agree on your dirt comment.

What do you guys think of this damage? Would you buy the motor for $700 shipped, knowing it has that damage? I ask because this looks a little worse than some of the other examples of this damage I have seen. Thanks for your opinion. EDIT: No rush as the guy just sold it apparently. I'm still open to opinions on severity of chain break damage though. Thanks.