http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-burgess-honda-gearbox-not-rocket-science/

Quote from: Drunken Monkey on April 04, 2011, 09:32:02 AM
Yeah, the rider in question was whining about mentioning the need for "two pins to push", post-race 

Oz in "pin heads"?     Hoho...Casey had better not need marshalling help in the future

so....due to the Jerez debacles/learning experience with bump starting the new system...you think they'll develop some sort of engagement system like the old compression releases for 2-strokes with a doohickey and a lever and a whachamajigger to make some sort of thingamabob dual pin release for those rare occasions....

Hard to believe Honda didn't think of that from the get go.

Quote from: Monsterlover on April 11, 2011, 08:38:05 AM
Hard to believe Honda didn't think of that from the get go.

I don't think you really plan on crashing and restarting a race.

Wet race crashes are slower speed so you see a lot of guys try to remount, but the majority of dry track crashes result in a bike that is too banged up to rejoin, so restarting is irrelevant.

and most of the time in a crash if the bike is still running the riders scramble to get it turned off asap.  engines being limited 'n all.

if you look at the idea of how the stuff is clutching throught he counter shaft, its not really that different in a way from amazingly.....

internally geared bicycle hubs, those things have as many as 6-8 speed in them the shimano internally geared ones, granted this is with planetary gears, but the idea of clutching and enganging certain gears using a sort of sliding shaft system on an internal shaft is really done with bicycles not in a way.

its not 100% the same thing but you can definitely see where honda may have drawn inspiration from to make this new transmission design.

then again, remember honda literally files 100s of applications a year on different things, many of them will never see the light of day, and also who knows if this patented thing is even in the race bike, for all we know the race bike could have something totally different inside it.

for example the new vfr dual clutch trnasmission, honda/suzuki/yamaha have been filing patents on dual clutch motorcycles for at least the last 6-8 years and only finally just came out with something now.  trust me i know.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/MotoGP/2011/April/apr1511-honda-angered-by-illegal-clutch-rumours/