Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Forks and final drive

I rode to my Guzzi club meeting on the last Sunday in February. It was cold enough that, for the first time, I was the only one who rode to the Mexican restaurant where we met. So, after lunch, the guys gathered around my bike. Two of them noticed spatters of oil on the right side of my rear wheel and tyre.

My final drive, leaking again. Damn.

If you’ve only owned chain-drive bikes, the final drive is the device in the rear wheel that turns the rotation of the driveshaft

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