The Martin Racing site is no help. I emailed them, and they directed me to their retail site: www.mrscooterstore.com It's as worthless as tits on a boar hog. I hate a bad attempt at a retail website.

Looks like the whole world is out of Dr. Pulley sliders. Their site has no mention of HiT clutches at all. I guess I'll have to break down and do it the old fashioned way and use the TELEPHONE, if I can remember how to use it.

I just got a quote from Paul at Union Materials (Dr. Pulley): $420 for the HiT clutch and a set of sliders if I "promise to post results" to this forum. (Which I intend to do, of course.)

I told him I'll order in 2 or 3 more weeks, when I can pony up the dough, and that if all goes well and I like the results I might consider becoming a Distributor. I'm disappointed by the lack of E-commerce know-how on the various web sites. Union Materials seems to expect me to put my credit card information in an email, but I'm not THAT dumb. I'll send a cashier's check via snail mail. But I think I see a niche market for somebody willing to put up a decent web site, or at least an Ebay retailer program of some kind. In fact, I'd be happy to just arrange drop-shipping from Union Materials for a nominal fee and just handle the transactions for them in a more "modern" way. I think they're really missing out on a lot of sales by not having a simple, clear "Pay here via secure connection" option of some sort and a clear cut, easily understood online catalog. Any any such enterprise should reasonably include some installation pictorials. It's easy enough to do.

Does $420 for clutch and sliders seem awfully steep to anybody else? The Malossi clutch is $200.

(edit: The $420 includes shipping from Taiwan)

A little bird whispered in my ear that I'd be paying for shipping from Taiwan, which would run well over $100. The price of the HiT clutch is probably comparable to the Malossi, but the shipping is a killer.

I'm not paying that kind of money to ship anything smaller than an entire Silverwing.

I'd really like to try the gadget, but the fact that there are none in stock in the USA is a deal killer for me. Their so-called "distributor" only carries the most popular ones, I'm sure. Nobody is going to keep a crate of Silverwing clutches in stock.

Dr. Pulley would do well to grant a license to manufacture the product in the US. Or at least Mexico, or something.

Meanwhile, I think I'll take another hard look at the Malossi and their rollers. They won't have all the benefits of the HiT clutch, but I'm sure that extra hundred-odd bucks will go a long way toward making me feel better about it.

As for becoming a Dr. Pulley distributor: I can now understand why they don't have any stocking distributors in the USA. No way I'm ordering a cargo ship full of the things to pile in my garage.

The internet makes the world look small, but it's really quite large after all.

Its a shame. Dr. Pulley really does make good products. They really need to improve their product distribution though. Mass Scoot and I had to wait for at least 2-3 months to get our sliders last year. The sliders are awesome. It is such a shame. It seems like stores like scooter trap are able to get maybe a few shipments a year and once they sell out... you have to wait till the next batch comes in. Mickey, I agree with you, the cost is a little steep for the Hit clutch... especially when you factor in the shipping. That is why I chose the malossi as well. I am still waiting for a warm day install it. I think winter will never end..... Keep trying to find some sliders though. I like the sliders enough to where I'd be willing to wait for them. Those 28 gram sliders are really nice and really help you out at speeds over 55 MPH by lowering those RPM's. I will see if I can find some for you and If I can.... I'll PM you. I have a few ideas where to look that have things for the Honda Helix as their parts/engines are used on buggies. They may have them for Swing as well.

Here are some places that claim to have the coveted Dr. P Weights.
Monster Scooterparts is not showing the 28 Gram Weights but the lighter ones but KSpowerline does. Most of the sites I looked at that have the Honda Helix/CN-250/Kart/Buggy only carry for that application and not Maxiscoots so those sights weren't much help.

http://www.kspoweronline.com/product_info.php?products_id=266&osCsid=3b07f0e50793436bc0142569e93877cd

http://www.monsterscooterparts.com/28x20-dr-pulley-sliding-roller-weights.html

Sliders ordered. Thanks! That's what an e-commerce site should look like. Plus they have some hard-to-find items (in the U.S. anyway) and their prices are decent. How come you could find them and I couldn't? Somebody needs to introduce them to Google.

I think I'll go with some slightly heavier Malossi springs on the stock clutch, which is probably still like new, and maybe a new belt if I still have problems. But I suspect that sliders and springs, plus some general cleanup and lubricating as needed, will get me though this season no problem.

I still need to get the Day-Long taken care of before the season starts. (Which, given the state of "global warming" this year, might be in August.)

I thought I had a line on some 28 gram sliders from KS Powersports, but after ordering them I found out he only has the 23s. The 28s are on eternal backorder. Sorry, Dr. Pulley, but I give up.