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Thread: Top End?
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Old 09-04-2006   #2 (permalink)
merlin
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Someone else will come up with the math for RPM. 18 T, speed. though if you were at WOT, you seem about 5 - 10 mph off max. Your wight, the windscreen, the head wind. maybe it's about right, maybe a tweak will give you a bit more.
My comment though is more of a question, really - why were you doing this?
I mean, we all 'do the ton' now and then, but if you're trying to judge the bike's performance by determining it's max speed at WOT, somehow I think you're not looking at the relevant performance factors for this kind of bike. Even if you determine that its not quite hitting top, but good in all other areas - its kind of like, so what? If you're bonnie is tooling along at 105 - there ain't nothing to fix.
And FYI, with the 'optomistic' speedometer, you were probably just at 100 true. I betcha the bike will do it all day long too, though in my mind, its not the right tool for that kind of job.
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