Drive belt
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 1:38 pm
well guys back again, just got back yesterday from a trip around the UK and Scotland in 5 days on my Forza 125.
Covered 1200 miles in total and id say a good 900 of them mostly on dual carriageways and motorways doing 70-75mph at 9.5-10k revs, I weigh roughly 13st 5lb or 85kg and was carrying an extra 30kg in luggage/bike tools in under seat and in top box.
so the point of this is the day before my trip I had my drive belt & rollers changed using original drive belt and rollers from honda because my old ones were at almost at the 16k limit. on the ride from the garage back home around 40 miles everything was a sweet as a nut and all round my trip all was great, the last 50 miles on the way home I started to notice that the bike was sluggish (not too bad) but a noticeable drop in the acceleration for me and it was taking a lot longer to get up to 70mph and I'm really having to push it to get it over that.
Is it possible doing all those motorway miles at such speed has possibly damaged or stretched/warped my new drive belt which could now need replacing?
I've no issues getting a new one if that's the case just a new belt with 1300miles on it, they were hard miles as well having to accelerate hard from standing stops at junctions to not get flattened by lorries and also sometimes sitting at 65-75mph for 60+miles at a time.....is it possible it needs replacing? or could it be something else?
Thanks
Gav
Covered 1200 miles in total and id say a good 900 of them mostly on dual carriageways and motorways doing 70-75mph at 9.5-10k revs, I weigh roughly 13st 5lb or 85kg and was carrying an extra 30kg in luggage/bike tools in under seat and in top box.
so the point of this is the day before my trip I had my drive belt & rollers changed using original drive belt and rollers from honda because my old ones were at almost at the 16k limit. on the ride from the garage back home around 40 miles everything was a sweet as a nut and all round my trip all was great, the last 50 miles on the way home I started to notice that the bike was sluggish (not too bad) but a noticeable drop in the acceleration for me and it was taking a lot longer to get up to 70mph and I'm really having to push it to get it over that.
Is it possible doing all those motorway miles at such speed has possibly damaged or stretched/warped my new drive belt which could now need replacing?
I've no issues getting a new one if that's the case just a new belt with 1300miles on it, they were hard miles as well having to accelerate hard from standing stops at junctions to not get flattened by lorries and also sometimes sitting at 65-75mph for 60+miles at a time.....is it possible it needs replacing? or could it be something else?
Thanks
Gav