01-10-2018, 08:47 AM
(01-10-2018, 07:07 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: OK just in from 111 smile ride (see what I did there? lol)
Yes 4th and 5th will both rev past 5K. I took both to 6K. 6 K in 4th is exactly 95 mph.
6K in 5th I have no idea how fast I was going I was afraid to look but, I was going REALLY fast lol. Over 100. Fastest I have ever been on this motorcycle by a bunch.
Wasn't about to try 6K in 6th, but (like the video) I'm sure you'd be against the speed limiter at those rpms.
Like I said, a really slow revver and it takes a lonnngg time to get there if you start at a normal cruising speed of 3500 rpms in either gear. Not so much if you jump it up in the lower gears and then keep banging away on the shifter. I thought to myself you don't time 60-100 with a stopwatch on this bike, you time it with a sundial lol.
But that matters not to me, I had a great ride, reaffirmed my love affair with her..and had new Pilot Road 3's leaning against my garage door when I got in from my ride. Life is good.
I also thought while riding, this is unequivocally the WRONG bike for VLJ, but the RIGHT bike for me.
VLJ...do yourself a favor, keep the XSR.
So 6K must be where the rev limiter kicks in, and it wasn't the rev limiter but the top-speed limiter that prevented the guy in the video from going any faster than 5K in sixth.
Well, heck, I'm still wondering if the rev limiter applies to fourth gear!
Quote:Like I said, a really slow revver and it takes a lonnngg time to get there if you start at a normal cruising speed of 3500 rpms in either gear. Not so much if you jump it up in the lower gears and then keep banging away on the shifter. I thought to myself you don't time 60-100 with a stopwatch on this bike, you time it with a sundial lol.
That sounds downright scary. 60 to 100, measured by a sundial? I routinely do 60-to-100 zip-passes on open highways and freeways, and even on open two-lane country roads. I don't want to have to plan my passes based on molasses-slow acceleration.
Quote:I also thought while riding, this is unequivocally the WRONG bike for VLJ, but the RIGHT bike for me.
If it's truly that slow, you're right, I won't like it. The thing is, nothing else I've ever read gave me the impression that the CB1100 is sundial slow. Usually the comments go something along the lines of, "It's not fast, but it's not slow either. It's still an eleven hundred inline-four, with plenty of grunt. It has more than enough power for any situation."
What you're describing is highway acceleration similar to my wife's old Suzuki GS500. Yeah, I'm certainly expecting a lot more than that from the big CB.
Okay, it's frame-of-reference time now. You have an ST1300. I used to have one, and also an ST1100. While certainly not sport bikes by any means, I never found either bike to be lacking in right now overtaking power between 60 and 100. When I pulled the trigger, they took off. Are you saying that your CB accelerates significantly more slowly than your ST1300?
Quote:VLJ...do yourself a favor, keep the XSR.
Yep, you're scaring me, man.