Im sure this has already been covered, but I am a newb to the site and don't completely no how to search properly. What I am wondering is what gear I should be in, and what the revs should be, when I am just cruizing through town at 25mph, cruzing at 35mph, and at 45 and so on. The reason I ask this is because this is my first bike and dont exactly know what gear to be in, and what is a comfortable rev for the motor... If anyone can understand my rant I would surely appreciate it! Thanks, Camron

 

4-5k for just goofing 7k is your powband if you want to have great pickup and go

 

If you are driving around at a normal pace, take the bike up to 4th/5th gear at 35-45mph, the revs will be lower which is better. If you need to pick up some speed fast and are still sitting at 35-45 downshift from 5th/4th to 3rd.

 

Thanks a bunch for the help... Hopefully that will help with prolonging engine life

 

its a honda you can bang it off rev limit all you want and it'll still live for 50k miles + if you take care of the maintnece got a buddy with an 2000 F4 with 81k miles on it and he stunts it every day.

 

5-6K
helps save gas

 

So when you are riding at 5-6k rpms is that low??? Im so used to automobiles that redline at that many revs, so it is actually ok?

 

The redline on your bike is almost 15k so if you do the math for a car to your bike you'll see the 6k is about average to where a car would be at 2500rpm. I usually run about 6k just in case I gotta move quickly, no wastedx time down shifting. The bike is designed for it.

 

I usually hover around 7-9k especially in traffic. Once too many I've had close calls and revs too low to squirt away like I've wanted. It's just like the aviation motto:
There nothing more useless to a pilot than altitude above him and runway behind him.