| Author | Message | ||
     Rek |
I ordered an Uly rear tire and primary drive belt from Dave the other, day and put them on my '00 S3. Boy let me tell you, replacing that belt was a chore. But that's another story for another time. Anyway back on the subject. My first trip w/ the new belt and tire is a leisurely cruise west on MT Hwy 200. You can find the whole story here. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/6817/114842.html?1125132094 Day two of the inspection trip it rains like a mutha-chicken, thunder, lightening a real toad-strangler. My first visit of the day is via 32 miles of gravel. Major bummer. Long story short that dual-sport rear tire is awesome, it works as advertised and is infinitly better than any other tire I've used thus far. Been through four rears this season alone, so I should know. But the real deal is that new belt. Thanks to Mr. Tramp I've been running my belt "scary loose" and it helps, a lot. I turn off the main gravel road, which has been miserable but not undoable, the farmer's driveway is pure mud. Not the sandy mushy mud either, but what we call gumbo. Pure-D slime. The tires emmidiately sink about 4" and it's all I can do to stay upright w/ both feet on the ground, creeping along just fast enough to stay erect. I start hearing a very frightning, grinding clunk w/ every rotation, but I'm in enough of a bind that I don't dare stop. Takes me 20 minutes to creep a couple hundred yards, and when I finally reach solid (relative term here) ground to check it out I find this.  A closer look.  The mud and gravel were packed so tight into the sprocket that my belt had zero defection. You could've played a tune on that bad boy. I used the needle-nose pliers on my leatherman and cleaned each tooth, rotating the tire three full times to make sure I had every little scrap cleaned out. There was literally so much mud packed under the belt that the teeth were outside the sprocket. If I had more presense of mind I would've got a shot of that. In the end there were no nicks, no punctures, not a single defect of any kind. This is uncommon. I've had a total of three belts on my S3 in 15,000 miles and to come through an event like this w/out a single tiny puncture is outstanding. The worst part of this whole day? I had to retrace my route when the inspection was over. Rob | ||
| Mbsween |
Rob. does the Uly belt fits on the stock tuber sprockets? | ||
| Whodom |
Rek, Man, that's pretty impressive, but that has to be pretty hard on the transmission output shaft bearings to get the belt that tight. Maybe reinstalling the guards would be a good idea if you're gonna ride in that kind of muck very often? Mbsween, I think it's actually the belt for the XB-S or XB-R (the Uly belt would be too long). It's a direct swap for all tuber belts, but all 2006 belts use the Uly "technology". There have been a couple of threads on this in the Old School Buell forum. | ||
| Rek |
Whodom, I've tried a couple times to snag some used gaurds...the bike came w/out them when I bought it. Personally I'd rather have them on. Rob | ||
| Koz5150 |
Rek, PM me koszewa@hotmail.com I got an extra belt gaurd that I am pretty sure we can make a deal on. YOU OBVIOUSLY NEED IT MORE THAN MY GARAGE SHELF DOES! | ||
| Daves |
Does it light up? Rek, You need a Uly! | ||
| Koz5150 |
Does it light up? For the right price, Everything can light up... | ||
| Rek |
You need a Uly! No doubt x2! Too bad my daughter just started college...She don't need no stink'n tuition! Rob |
