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14 x 49 gearing - HOT...!!
Sharc:
You want a wild ride, swap to 14x49 gearing and you'll have a monster bike like the open class 2-strokes from the 80's....! Maybe not right for everyone's taste, and I've got a 10oz flywheel weight, but I did the low gearing for woods and made a desert trip and loved it in the open too. Still does an honest 80+ mph, but just RIPS through the 20-50 mph stuff. Great for hills too...Scream it in third and it'll go straight up a wall...Nice....Love this bike. Makes my buddy's KTM 300 feel like a pea shooter...
Sharc
demographic:
I am currently using 16/42 on mine but with a 17" rear wheel which gives a top end of just over a hundred MPH.
I was out yesterday and hardly used first,second and third apart fron pulling away from junctions so might just put a smaller rear sprocket on it......
Maybe I was on straighter roads than usual though
Rick:
I've been trying to ride the taller ratios (well, before I tried to ride my helmet in the rocks), and find I really like the 14/47 or 14/48 gearing. I think I'm going to leave these gears in place, and pull off the flywheel weight just for giggles. Afterall, do we really need to be going 100 when we hit the ground?? AFterall, I can always go back to the high speed gears.
Rick
Sharc:
14x49 uses a 116 link chain, you can swap to 15x49 with the same chain. Circlip pliers and a chain adjustment and your good for 90+....That was the original plan, but the low gearing is so much fun I think I'll leave it there for a while...
Fookeneh:
whats the ultimate gearing for the dunes?
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