Re: Saddlebags lies or fails to mention his own Ducati woes:)

On Aug 27, 3:52 pm, "." <yefelnag...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2:09 pm, Bob Nixon <bigrex2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It lasted all of 50 miles
> > before siezing the lower rod bearing on the left cylinder and turned
> > the piston and nearly broke the bronze rod, BTW, what the hell is a
> > Bronze rod doing in a high performance two stroke engine. Bronze is
> > weaker and heavier than steel or titanium.
>
> Get real, Bob. That's a *steel* rod with a bronze-colored surface
> treatment.

I just looked again, you're right. It's just fairly thick bronze
coating.

Bob Nixon..