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Gary Thwaites won all seven UK 1300cc classic races in 2012 on a 1007cc Seeley fitted with JSMotorsport components

There’s certainly a lot to love – but if you’re pushing the performance then vibes will be a problem.

After years of riding and racing and cracked, broken components, Jim Schmidt in the USA found that the best way to reduce those destructive shaking forces was to lighten the pistons.

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So his JS Motorsport pistons are one-third lighter than stock.

Read more in June’s edition of CBG
 


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