I had occasion to put on a new set of tires this past week and while the rear wheel was off I installed that TBS cush drive that I bought from Triumph of North Georgia a year or so ago. It was the right move.
It's funny, isn't it?...how one can become accustomed to degraded performance and not realize it. Now the bike shifts so much crisper and the engine feels like it's making more low end power; all because the slack is now gone under the sprocket.
It's a tight fit, which I had read but didn't understand...not tight inside the hub but tight between the swing-arm. Done again I'd have compressed the hub with a clamp for 30 minutes or so and then it wouldn't have been the devil fitting that spacer on the right into its place. It's done now and this weekend's longish trip will tell the real tale but the first 100 miles were a revelation.
BTW, that was a set of Avon Venom (am41, am42) tires, put on at a little over 8K miles and now removed at 20392mi. So I got around 12k miles before I got to the wear bars on the front.
