Hi Ollie,

Personally I have always felt that with the bent lower handle bar and the twin rail appearance that the Series II machine was the better looker. It just looks far more modern while the Series I machine looks far more dated like the Model 33 does.

Yes the Series I is far stronger in the engine deck department but now with these newer style engines out there there will be absolutely no problem in the twin rail design if any fractures are just conventionally repaired as the gusset method isn't really required for those when repaired correctly.

The gusset repair method will really only be required on machines with catastrophic rail failure.

The one thing the early units have over the later and that is torsional strength in the larger two formats, that being the 17 and 20 inch variants. There should be nothing in it for the two 14 inch models.

Cheers,
BB.


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