X-gear feedback

[Dana01]

Hiya,

I'm soliciting feedback on how daily and highway riding are from someone who has X'd their gears before I swap 'em.

[rustywrench]

I ride my cl geared for the hi way more or less. X-ing gives you a much easier gear change through all the gears. A cl I sold last summer did not have it done and I really noticed the difference. Stock, it had a huge drop to 2ND. and 3rd to 4Th was minimal and not much rpm change. X and you get a more evenly spaced rpm change through all the gears. That's my 2 cents, FWIW,,,,,,,,,Rusty

[davomoto]

IMHO X-ing is the only way to go. I had one CB77 that wasn't X'd, and it was not nearly as easy to ride. There is a really large gap between first and second. If you rev it pretty high in first, then it's O.K. If you try to short shift, fahgetaboudit!

Davo

[Dana01]

Thanks guys! I'll be genuflecting and X-ing myself tonight when I put the gear trains back together.

... now where did all those little roller bearings run off to???

[Dana01]

All done. Fast Fred just left. We put it all back together, put the cases back temporarily and checked the shift clearances. Dogs are happy :)

Thanks Fred!

[Dana01]

Here we go ... all X'd and ready to be buttoned up.

[hillhudson]

hey all i'm just a little confused as to what i should do here. i drew a diagram on the picture provided here, as a question of which ways the gears should go when "crossing" them. the picture here shows them already crossed but does what i drew make sense ?

thanx

-hill