dumb question and not so dumb question

[joshf123]

This may seem silly... I feel kinda silly for even asking, but a friend of mine who has owned a bike for a while and seems fairly knowledgeable told me motorcycles don't have a charging mechanism for the battery. Maybe I didn't hear him right or I missed something, but it sounds like he is saying the battery starts the bike and powers lights and whatnot then once it drains you just have to charge it up on a charger or get a new battery. This sounds kind of ridiculous, but I just wanted to be sure because I ran into an electrical issue recently. I drove it about a mile to a friend's house and parked it for 5 minutes. I tried to start it up to leave and it made one short starting sound then did nothing. No lights, no sound from start button. I was convinced the battery died so I jumped it off and continued my ride. About another mile down the bike started missing. I eventually hard to park and have a friend come pick it up with his truck. The crazy thing about this whole situation is once we loaded the bike into his truck everything started working again as if nothing had ever happened. I have since driven it about 20 miles around town with no issues. May only guess is something came loose and got shaken back into place as we were loading the bike.

Other not so dumb question is what is the red line speed in 5th gear? I don't have a tac so I want to know when i'm pushing it too hard on the highway.

Thanks and sorry for the drawn out post