I've noticed a lot of "anti-shaftdrive" sentiment here. Can one of you guys who feel this way explain what your objections are.
Having owned a 1980 Yamaha XS1100(bought new and owned for 15 years), I understand that one objection could be the rear suspension "rise" that some of the older shaft-driven designs had(usually attributed to the swingarm being too short), but most of the newer designs have either a parallelogram-type system which cancels this effect, or have longer swingarm/shaft designs which cancels most of this effect.
Shafts are basically very low-maintenance and a very clean way to drive the rear wheel, so I don't quite understand the reluctance here.
