Went for a ride a couple of weeks ago along single track twisty B roads where a 'good' speed seemed to be about the 50mph / 3 thou revs mark.
For me this speed/revs in top gear was a pain on this type of road - having to drop a gear as soon as the revs dropped slightly below the 3 thou mark. Its the first bike I've owned that made it known that it was not happy ( with that horrible piston slapping type sound - to my ear anyway! ) at revs as high as 3 thou or just under in top.
I am probably guilty of wrongly comparing it to larger capacity multi cylinder bikes but it was still a disappointment to me when doing the slower tarmac touring type stuff.
SO.......... While realising that a lot of Kevs mods would probably take care of this I have opted for changing the gearing - My mate Jim has just fitted a 14 th front sprocket to his and gave me a quick shot the other day - what a change! His bike now pulls cleanly from I'd say 2.2 thou on level ground and is eager to pull throughout the gears. I've not done the calculation re the speedo error but my guess is around 4 - 6mph with an increase of around 500- 750 revs I think.
I've read previous posts which point to the advantages for the off road side of things but I think it will be a great improvement for general touring too - aye maybe not so good for the longer motorway stuff but I do as little of that as possible anyway.
To sum up the order for a 14 tooth sprocket went in today and will be fitted after the lakes meet.

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