How many gears is too many?

[Mick_J]

Closer to 85 mph @ 4000 rpm Col.

[KiwiCol]

No wonder I get tickets!

[Irish in Oz]

Sounds better to me, 70mph is 112kph.
I jump from 5 speed bikes FJR and Katana and it doesn't worry me, they are revving higher because you lookk at the rev counter but they are also giving away a few cubes, but as for performance the FJR 2002 goes OK.

[KiwiCol]

Yeah, it's the MPH thing. 112k & reckon I'd be doing about 3400-3500

[Irish in Oz]

Speedo or GPS

[Sweaty]

I'm sure mine is 100 kph @ 3000 & 120 kph @ 3500 on the Speedo.

[Kiwifruit]

Sounds about right Sweaty......... but is 200kph @ 6000 rpm, guess it should be.

[KiwiCol]

Sweaty, set you phone up so it's showing GPS & have a ride. Think you'll find your actual speed on the GPS at 3000 is probably closer to 94-95. I've got a speedo healer thingy hooked in, had to adjust mine by 6.5% from memory, was a while ago.

[Irish in Oz]

Sound right to me as well. I got mine revving to 8 in top and I'm sure it was reading 266 k's on speedo, it was a very bumpy road and my vision was a wee bit blurred. Just glad I had the three pots up front to slow me down for the hairpin.

[KiwiCol]

266!!   Jeez Irish -  oh of course, that would have been on a closed circuit race track, silly me. 

But anyway, pretty sure they top out (std ones) at 240, or so I've heard. 

[Irish in Oz]

No Col it wasn't on the track and it wasn't standard, I had a Staintune pipe on it, that's why I took it off.

[T 24]

I tried once (on closed track of course), speedo showed over 260, but when I checked speed from gps, it was "only" 242kmh.
Engine was pulling hard, but it was enough for me, on that bumpy "track".
That bike (14) is not made to those speeds. Scary experience.

[KiwiCol]

Agreed T24, it's a little bit loopy doing speeds like that on a 14, it's a good bike for sure, but for high speed there are better options imo.

[Irish in Oz]

Givi screen, top box, panniers all matching of coarse, easy as.

[Irish in Oz]

Agreed T24, it's a little bit loopy doing speeds like that on a 14, it's a good bike for sure, but for high speed there are better options imo.

You where only doing 2 klms over what it is supposed to be capable of, must have had a tail wind