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Overall shot of the front cylinder head.
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Closeup of the bad rocker on the front cylinder head. The big patch of chrome
missing from the face of the rocker is very apparent in the full size image.
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Another closeup of the same rocker.
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Overall shot of the rear cylinder head.
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I was a bit too close to the rocker for this closeup, exceeding the camera's
minimum focus distance; you can still make out the big patch of chrome missing
from the face, however.
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Another closeup, again exceeding the minimum focus distance of the camera.
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Here's a shot of the front cylinder head on the right side. The black stuff
all over is dust from the cam belt, which was rubbing on the cam pulley due to
an alignment problem.
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A closer shot of all the grime in there...
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This is a closeup of the cam pulley/sprocket where the rubbing was occurring.
If you note the wear pattern on the teeth, you can see that the belt was riding
on the innermost portion, and had actually polished up the rear surface.
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Same pulley/sprocket, different angle.
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This is a cam pulley/sprocket from the rear cylinder head, and an example of
what proper wear should look like. The backing surface isn't all nice and
shiny, and the wear is clearly in the center of the running surface.
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Since the bike was going to have some downtime anyway, I figured I'd have them
install one of their lightened flywheels - a beautiful piece of machining. The
best part of course is that it shaves some 4 pounds of rotating mass...
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Another shot of the Nichols aluminum flywheel (very minimalistic, eh?)
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Here's what a stock flywheel looks like. And believe me, it's even heavier
than it looks, being a chunk of solid steel.
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The other side of the stock flywheel...
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