Noooooo Never Officer!! i just got this bike and it took me by
surprize and got away from me. HONEST!!!!
steve #1131
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: V-MAX TECH LIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Overreving
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:46:45 +0200
>
>Just a question about the red marking on the midget size rev counter and
>how to use the information on the dial.
>
>Now with the jets (S7K) and TBR double cans when I accelerate there is no
>noticeable power drop when you enter the red zone, on the contrary it keeps
>going strong or even stronger!
>
>So I was just wondering, after I raced a Honda Fireblade through heavy
>traffic yesterday evening, both of us doing all sorts of crazy things, I
>came to realise that after the 11.000 rpm the dial becomes white once more
>and the needle seems quite happy in that area with no numbers,
>soooo........ maybe it is safe once more and you could even find the 1000
>rpm once again and keep on going to the red zone for the second time!
>
>Seriously, this is the first bike I own that does not let you feel the
>waste of time in getting the revs over the red line, on the contrary it
>seems to want more and more stick. I will have to buy that retched rev
>limiter before I see valves and other useful bits coming out through the
>exhaust pipes.
>
>By the way, the guy with the Fireblade, after I overtook him in third gear
>doing something close to 12.000 rpm made a mistake in the following corner
>and ended up in a small gravel road, as he followed the curves tangent.
>
>No one was hurt in this challenge, but I feel guilty of letting my ego
>override my normal way of being.
>
>Has this ever happened to anyone else?
>
>Charles ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
>
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