At what RPM do you cruise?

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Wondering at what RPM everyone likes to cruise their CB. I try to keep mine at or around the 3,000 RPM range. There's plenty of torque to cruise at much lower RPM but I don't want to lug the engine. What are your thoughts on the optimum cruise RPM?

Just before any further reduction would make the engine labour. Once you know your engine well enough, you can hear it complain.

On this bike it is rather low, in the vicinity of 3K - but it depends on the load: uphill and against the wind will require perceptibly higher revs. And we must never forget that on a motorcycle, the engine works mostly to push the object through the fluid, and the fluid resists with the force that is proportional to the velocity squared.

Just listen to what the engine is telling you...