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Originally Posted by Ducati999
Had my first ride on the 310 today(except for ride up driveway when I got it home) and im impressed. After years with the wifes 250R the power is available so much lower down the RPM range. Not a big deal to me but the misses never liked to really rev out the Ninjette. She would ride around at 9,000 missing 20% of the power. I even had to gear the bike up a 2 teeth in the front and tune the airbox/carbs for lower RPM power/torque. She should love the amount and delivery of the power from this motor. I found it to always have enough pull from anywhere above 4,000 rpm all the way to 10,000. Bikes handling was twitchy compared to my Ducati's! With way smaller tires, single disk on front, single cylinder, center of gravity lower and less mass being thrown around the crank and lets not forget the leverage those "Dirtbike" handle bars give you, this bike should change direction faster than lightning. Not to mention the 1" that I pulled the forks up thru the tripple to help the wide reach the ground a little better. The tranny, gear indicator and clutch all were excellent but I cant get used to the tiny "bar meter" tach across the BOTTOM of the display. Trust me you dont want to take your eyes off the road the amount of time it takes to locate the tach and then figure out what RPM you are turning. Other than wishing for an adjustable fork the tach is the only thing that will take some time to get used to.
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Yeah on Ninjette nothing is going on below 4k
On 310 IIRC at 2.5 you are already in a good shape from the torque prospective.
Speaking of the tach - I noticed that too on 310, how good is your best-half with music and musical instruments ? I have been driving manual cars pretty much all my driving career and I never look at the tach at all. May be not totally never as I still calibrate my ear for some time after driving something new but then I usually hear it. People who played some instruments usually are very good at detecting a pitch and hearing the revs without looking at the tach.