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 Post subject: Left side drive?
PostPosted: 30 May 2009 13:03 
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Hey folks

So I've got me a '01 M2 Cyclone I'm going to streetfighter up, I've also got the swingarm, wheel & brake off a 955 Daytona I've been holding onto for ages, having missed a perfectly good opportunity to fit it to a mate's ZX10R 'fighter.

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I reckon it'd look the goods on the M2, but the problem is the right-side drive trannie. The 955 swingarm is a single-sided job, but that single side is the left side. Dilemma.

Can these bikes be converted easily to left side drive? I don't want to piss about with a jack shaft, mostly because I think they look shite but also because I doubt the swingarm will be long enough.

I'm new to the Buell twins, been a Jap four-cylinder man all my biking life. Now I'm paying for my indiscretions. :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Left side drive?
PostPosted: 30 May 2009 18:19 
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left side drive, in a word no.
why not turn arm over then you would have right side drive arm :?:

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 Post subject: Re: Left side drive?
PostPosted: 30 May 2009 22:13 
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:yt: I had to do that with a Maico MX bike when I fitted a Suzuki DR motor in it.

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 Post subject: Re: Left side drive?
PostPosted: 30 May 2009 22:41 
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tubbs wrote:
left side drive, in a word no.
why not turn arm over then you would have right side drive arm :?:

But then the wheel would be upside down ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Left side drive?
PostPosted: 30 May 2009 23:15 
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kevmean wrote:
tubbs wrote:
left side drive, in a word no.
why not turn arm over then you would have right side drive arm :?:

But then the wheel would be upside down ;)


:hehe:
There are specialised workshops that can turn the wheel 180 degrees to even out that effect ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Left side drive?
PostPosted: 31 May 2009 09:41 
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Another Option

http://www.ramitalia.net/buell.html

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PostPosted: 31 May 2009 12:51 
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or http://www.metmachex.net/p3_9_2.htm

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