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General Category => Bike Help => Topic started by: bearfighter on April 13, 2010, 04:36:12 PM

Title: Bad Performance
Post by: bearfighter on April 13, 2010, 04:36:12 PM
Question for you all! I was riding today and as I came into a corner about 60mph, I noticed that my bike didn’t want to respond. It was like I was in to high of a gear but my RPM were in 10,000. Not sure why it was performing like that. It only happened once and I’m not sure if I should be concerned or not.
Title: Re: Bad Performance
Post by: beedawg on April 13, 2010, 04:52:40 PM
Question for you all! I was riding today and as I came into a corner about 60mph, I noticed that my bike didn’t want to respond. It was like I was in to high of a gear but my RPM were in 10,000. Not sure why it was performing like that. It only happened once and I’m not sure if I should be concerned or not.

They all do that.

;)
Title: Re: Bad Performance
Post by: jlk_250 on April 14, 2010, 10:12:34 AM
Question for you all! I was riding today and as I came into a corner about 60mph, I noticed that my bike didn’t want to respond. It was like I was in to high of a gear but my RPM were in 10,000. Not sure why it was performing like that. It only happened once and I’m not sure if I should be concerned or not.

You hit the rev limiter.  I'm guessing that you were accelerating out of the corner at the time the power dropped off.  Beware of shifting mid-corner while leaned way over. Unless you're really good, it's best to either be in a lower gear at the start of the corner or wait until the bike straightens up somewhat before shifting.  I had an oops doing that once. 

Also, hitting the rev limiter is not so bad for the engine but if you had downshifted at that point it would definitely have been bad for the engine. 

Jon
Title: Re: Bad Performance
Post by: Tumbler on April 14, 2010, 09:57:42 PM
Also, hitting the rev limiter is not so bad for the engine but if you had downshifted at that point it would definitely have been bad for the engine.

No to mention bad for him as well!!
Title: Re: Bad Performance
Post by: bearfighter on April 15, 2010, 05:30:06 AM
Either way it pissed me off.