[burkbuilds]

Reading your last post reminded me of how my GZ ran when I took a couple of two hour highway trips on it. I remember that I was having trouble trying to even get to 65 mph for the first 30 minutes or so, then I started noticing that I could hit 70 and occasionally 75 mph briefly as the bike got warm, well probably hot for that matter. Maintaining those speeds on a GZ is practically impossible though, but I've actually hit 82 mph once going downhill with a tailwind for about 5 seconds. I am about 80 lbs lighter than you are and my guess would be that you are going to have difficulty getting to 65 and maintaining it will be even tougher no matter how well the bike is running. That was the only reason I finally sold my GZ and bought a Vulcan 500. Like you, I needed to be able to run with the pack in fast moving highway traffic to keep from getting run over. If that's as important to you as it turned out to be to me, then you probably need to consider buying a bike with more displacement. The 250 only puts out somewhere around 20-22 horsepower, my Vulcan 500 is only about 30% heavier than the 250 but it puts out twice that amount in horsepower and it makes a difference when you need to go faster.