COG SWAPPING
Apr 19, 2017
3 minutes
WITH JAMIE McILWRAITH
“The 50cc Suzuki RP68 GP racer of 1968 had 16 gears”
SOME of you may not know this, but back in motorcycling’s earliest days — more than a century ago — there were no gearboxes on motorcycles. None at all. To get going on a bike in those far-off times, you started it up on its centre-stand by pedalling like mad, popped it off its stand, either ran beside the bike for several paces, or just hopped on and kept pedalling as
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