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Originally Posted by BusyWeb
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Originally Posted by 5th_bike
Just on the side: at 65 mph in 4th gear, it's at 8,000 rpm. According to Jaime, the redline is at 9,000 rpm (which, then, is at about 73 mph in 4th gear).
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Here is today's my experience with gear shifting.
It was on the freeway up-hill, and 5th gear with about 70 mph.
As it goes up-up, speed goes down to 55 mph with full throttle.
And there were cars behind and closing to me, so I had to either speed up or change lane.
Changing lane was not my option because of traffic condition.
I did shif-down to 4th and rev-up to get more drag power.
With 4th gear, I got to go over 65 mph to escape from the traffic.
Don't know about RPM, but engine sounds was not that bad.
Engine sounds less noisy than the 80 over mph at the 5th gear.
That's it for my shift experience. |
If I'm going up into the mountains, I encounter the same thing. I usually end up shifting back and forth between 4th and 5th for the whole trip, and 5th at around 60-65 is probably about right if you're going up a pretty steep incline. Funny thing is, my bike handles about the same going up steep hills/mountains as our Chevy Cavalier; I need to shift around the same speeds that the car (automatic) shifts at and the RPM's feel about the same.