I'd like to lower the cruising rpm's of my F3. I was looking around on a gas mileage website and a guy on there went from averaging 50mpg to 58mpg with lowering his rpm's by 500 at cruise on his 500cc bike.

 

You'd lose a lot of acceleration, but highway cruising would be less buzzy, with better mpg.

It depends on how you use your bike.

 

I was actually thinking of going -1 on mine for better acceleration but was worried about the handful of times that I do longer rides on the highway...

Dennis

 

Ihad -1 inthe frontand a stock on the back and had no problem on the highway. Now I'm running -1 in front and +5 in the rear.It's still 150-160 mph gearing ratio,but the gas mileage sucks,but the performance is killer.

 

Running a 14 in front and 48 in the back, the max speed at 13,500 rpm would be 143mph. Your speedo doesn't display accurate speed.

 

1 down 2 up FTW!!!

 

so maybe it would take me a whole 4 seconds to get to 60 instead of 3. haha i'm not really worried about it, more about cruising and better mileage.

 

I was taking a guess my speedo doesn't read right because its not plugged in. HaHa

 

may cause it to have more of a tentency to stall at lights. And would kill its performance in the twisties. Leave it stock.

 

stock isn't bad, i'm now getting 47-49mpg solidly when i gave up doing 40-110 runs at every on ramp haha.