Stupid clutch question

 AFAIK, every bike I ever rode had a wet clutch except a WWII vintage
Harley.  A friend tells me that dry clutches are common on bikes.
Have any of you ever heard of a 21st century bike with a dry clutch?

Michael

 On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:06:37 -0700, Michael


I know BMW and Ducati used to use dry clutches. I think they still do.
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RoRo

 
Ducati have Dry clutches in most of ther models range, but already
have some with wet clutches, it's easy to see if it's a wet or dry,
oly by the sound.

BMW don't have dry clutches, they are "wet", but they are like the
ones used in cars, use Valvoline.


The rest of japonese modern motorcycles are wet clutches, "maybe one
or another model isn't", and use the same oil as the engine, one of
the reasons why Ducati and BMW change oil ervery 10 000 kms, and the
others every 6000 kms because the clutch dust destroy's the oil.

Cheers
Jaime
Portugal
GSX-R 600 K4
WR426-F SM

 Gixxerman wrote:


'R' Boxer twins and 'K' longitudinal crank aka "flying brick" BMWs
have dry clutches.  F650 F800, and the new transverse crank K(K1200R,
K1200S, K1200GT) bikes have wet clutches.

So I would say the majority of BMW bikes now on the road have a dry
clutch, but the future direction seems to be tipping in favor of
wet clutches.

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'01 SV650SK1  '99 EX250-F13  '98 ZG1000-A13
OMF #7

 Michael wrote:


How about telling us what you're riding so we don't have to go through which
bikes have wet clutches and which ones have dry clutches and which ones have
pedals?

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