Changed Final Drive Gearing 2013

[DGShannon_imp]

I always felt the gearing had short legs on the 2013. I would often start out in 2nd on flat ground. Its almost is if they set it up for the Japanese market ( city traffic )

I changed to a 19 front and 38 back about 9% difference in torque and MPH's. With the longer gears it feels just about right taking off from a traffic light, there's less engine braking and a smoother transition in the top 3 gears. They only place where you notice the decrease in torque is when you lug the bike under 2500RPM's and roll ons from 60-80 in 5th are a bit slower .3

I though the bike would run faster times which it does, 0-60 is .2 faster and 0-100 is .3 faster. Very small gains but its positive not negative.

Note: I had a bad rear sprocket it was out of round 1/16th everything cleared up with the change. My chain is running true now.

Cheers

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I have to agree with you! Glad that others, like yourself, have already done the change, and can report it's success. I can see this mod in my future.

I know you have mentioned the details elsewhere, but you might want to restate the details (part number, maker, etc.) on the two sprockets!

- Darrell