Interesting read on Final Drive Gear ratio's

[Inhouse Bob]

OK OK have a laugh at my expense, I can take it!! Wait till your sleeping at the rally and I change your gears

No worries. My bike sleeps next to me in bed. Please don't judge me.

As to the original article... there isn't a horsepower change when changing sprockets, but you are changing the way that horsepower is applied. With a lower gear ratio you get to use more of that horsepower off the line, and a higher ratio gives you a higher top end speed. that is assuming that you have enough horsepower to handle the higher gear ratio.

I dreamed last night that someone stole my bike and the insurance company bought me a 2014 DLX. I liked the six speed! Woke up grinning and my wife hit me. Not sure what she thought I was dreaming of...