Morning all, I'm headed off on a road trip in a few weeks and wanted to make the gearing a little longer to make the motorway cruising easier. My local dealer said if I get a front sprocket one tooth bigger the bike would through a fit and enter limp mode. Anyone have any experience of this? Thanks Ed.
Are we talking V4 Streetfighter or one of the older variants ? The V4 would probably be fine, just need to do a "tyre calibration". Though I'd be surprised if you really needed the difference ? I've not noticed it "over-reving" in 6th... the few times I've tried it on the motorway.
At 75mph its reving around 6500rpm. Thats quite high for a long duration I think. The change might also help the horrendous mpg (I dont care but the people I'm with will)
I think that would mean the Taiwan version would actually have lower revs at the same speed, rather than higher like the OP, if my maths is correct.
Apologies, I didn’t make it clear in my post that the Taiwan gearing is lower. The point I was trying to make is that it would appear to be possible to run different ratios on a Streetfighter.
Just remember to run the "tyre-calibration"... Think I might already have mentioned it, but that's all it needs
