Mike FWIW my Old Venolia 71 mm pistons are 180 grams bare..so I don't know what you have there.. If I remember correctly there was a Venolia decal on at least one RC bike.
Btw Did you see my pic of the Yoshimura rod, don't matter how "better" it is if it turnsinto a grenade..
I don't like aluminum rods and never have. I don't care who made them. Carrillo have always been my benchmark though modern stock rods are very good. My friend used stock GS rods in multi time world champ Gary Clark's turbo funnybike....those could handle 60 to 70 lbs. Better match your components carefully.
I agree re the Aluminum rods, forged or billet. Door stops only IMO, once bitten as they say.
Carrillos are very good, we also use DOHC CB1100F rods (17mm gudgons) no worries there either.
I have a set of Falicons sitting in the draw at the moment.
We are going to try them in our A motor, chasing a little more clearance for the bottom cases.
The quality and machining seem to be very good.
Cheers,
Brian
