GEAR RATIOS.
Motor-cycles are geared too high. This is a sweeping statement, but in the main it is true. Of course, many riders like their engines pulling a high top gear. To have one’s machine just ticking over at “forty” is pleasant, but a high gear means poor acceleration, frequent gear changing and makes for inflexibility. With close ratio gears or a fourspeed box having a third gear only a little lower than top, a high top gear is a very real advantage to the man who uses his gears; it is available for fast work and use in favourable conditions. As a rule, however, it will be found with a wide ratio three-speed box that an all-round improvement in performance is obtained by the use of a top gear slightly lower than standard. For high averages there is nothing like a low top gear. Lubricating oils imported into New Zealand in the first four months of this year totalled 966,788 gallons, an increase of 262,000 gallons on the imports in the January-April period of last year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18382, 28 September 1929, Page 12
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177GEAR RATIOS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18382, 28 September 1929, Page 12
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