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amelioritive, that word right there's worth half of a Berg 5'er!

I once won a spelling bee with supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and antidisestablishmentarism but none of those words would impress Kathy enough to let me spend our hard-earned cash on another transaxle.

Another transaxle, why would I need that? Because in my infinitive wisdom when ordering Whitecloud, and against all counsel received here on the SOC, I chose the 4:11 final drive ratio.

Having just put 1500 kilometers on Whitecloud in the past two weeks, she/he is a definite "daily driver" including many trips over the Cuesta Grade on 101, the only option from Atascadero without driving 41 to Morro Bay then 1 to SLO.

I guess you could also drive the High Mountain dirt/forest road from Pozo to Lopez Lake and then frontage roads to SLO but that's best left to my friend MIke in his fully restored '56 (real) Speedster. Yes, he did that and his car is black!

The nice thing about the rear axle ratio is that I can reliably time  my speed in 4th gear by multiplying by two. 3200 rpm is 65mph which is more rpm than I like running for long stretches, Whitecloud likes 2500-2900.

 

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