Hi All,

Thanks for the replies.

Chewa, you're exactly right - I knew there had to be a technical way of explaining it

As far as MrFix's comment goes I guess the pertinent point is "high quality" - I'm under no illusions about my 1000 - I love it to bits but its still an entry level bike with a seriously nice paint-job.

I guess the bedding in theory probably makes sense - I'll give it some time and see how it goes. I did actually try spinning the back wheel manually and there's no sign of any excessive friction

The only other thing that did occur to me was whether its simply a matter of the higher ratios meaning that the freewheel actually makes the same no of rotations for a smaller angular rotation of the front cog.