Thank you I feel confortable driving the bike without a cush-hub. I thought that, because of the big 600cc cylinder, at open the throttle it was not going to be gentle at all. But, although the bike has a superb response and a lot of HP at low rpm I can manage driving it without any suddenness nor jerk at the rear sprocket. May be (I don't know) because I'm use to drive the small TE310... Quite different was the Yamaha XTY660Z tenere. This bike has a cush hub but, in my opinion, even though having the cush hub has a worse “rear sprocket feeling” that my TE630 So, for me, as far as concerning to driving feeling, so far the bike is good without a cush - hub Other issue is, of course, concerning to engine reliabiity...
Thought I'd bump this thread. Just changed out a sunstar sprocket for a JT, and the JT has a much tighter fit on the splines. Not sure if they're all like this, but for this sample size of one, the JT has less, as in almost 0 play on the splines.
Went with JT at 6K when the oem was chain worn. Spline fit is tight. Will be curious to see how it's doing at twice the miles.
