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steve the grease |
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But why would you want to? Unless your bike will readily pull top revs in top gear* , there is little to be gained by gearing it up. If no front sprockets are available , you can alter the gearing by altering the back sprocket , but again there is often very little to be gained if the gearing was originally optimised by the manufacturer ( unless *) , you may well end up with a bike which has 4 usable gears instead of 5.
TBH the sprocket looks just like my DRZ250 sprocket....... ____________________ All the above is my personal opinion, you can see my lips move, but I'm talking out of my arse.
I've been riding, and fixing , bikes for 50 years, in that time the more I learn, the less I am absolutely sure of.....
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As a general rule, I find most bikes won't pull more than one more tooth on the front because they either run out of puff in top or the ability to do hill starts in 1st. Unless that is, it's combined with significant tuning.
I went up 4 teeth from standard on my big enfield project, but I also went up 250% in horsepower and to be fair, I suspect it could have stood one less tooth. Mostly because of the pesky speed squared rule. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 166 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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