Instructions for Installing the Brooks Belt-Drive on ...

The bike may not leap out of the hole as it did (by comparison), depending on the year model of your bike. The '95 and early '96 models were geared at a ridiculously low ratio (2.875:1!!), eventually improved by Kawasaki in later models. The later models were shipped from Kawasaki with 2.75:1, 2.47:1, and finally 2.35:1 in the 2000 Drifter 800's. ................
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