November 5th, 2014, 08:37 AM
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in your machine
Name: Scott
Location: Summer Shade, Ky.
Join Date: Oct 2014
Motorcycle(s): 98 Ninja 250/F12 aka ZX-2R "SERENITY", 91 Ninja 500/A5 aka ZX-5R "Phoenix", 84 Honda GL1200A "SIREN"
Posts: A lot.
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Originally Posted by Ghostt
One must keep in mind that gear it down, decreasing the final gear ratio, that small displacement engines love and need to rev to work effectively, so if you go too far, be ready for that.
I know that when I had my FJ1100 GOING to +1/-2 was no big deal, and I could hardly feel the performance difference, but on the 250 I can feel it for sure.
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Topic Review (Newest First)
Today 06:47 AM
wardie
Gearing
When I bought the bike I switched from 14/45 to 15/41 because I did more highway traveling than anything else and wanted gas mileage and lower revs at 70 mph. The 15/41 is fine accelerates well but I find I cannot max out RPM in 6th gear GPS'd at 93 mph. Think the 15/43 might have been best all arounder gearing.
November 2nd, 2014 05:54 PM
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A clear cut example/case of what I was talking about.
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