Matt Colie wrote:
Rick,
You Missed a line Look below:

You mean:
"Yamaha apparently does this with gears, Honda does it with
a larger D and smaller pitch on the prop with the same gears
(this year was different two years ago)" ?

Yep, I read it but I guess it just didn't register somehow. Maybe I
still had the old specs in my head... including the XXlong shafts.

The older TH Hondas had a different gear ratio, I guess they have
decided it wasn't worth their while.

Apparently. Who knows what goes into a marketing decision like that.

Rick