You guys ever try to shift into 7th??? I find I've been trying to do this alot lately.

 

If you are trying to shift into 7th...either you need a faster bike or you need to mod it out. The only way you should feel you need to go into a higher gear when you're already in 6th is if you feel you are going slow or your pick-up/performance isn't where you want it.

 

this happened to me too, just try shifting at higher RPM's. my problem was i am so used to shifting my slow *** Saturn at 3-5k RPM's that i heard the noise of the bike and wanted to shift. i'm surprised how high revving these motors can go. see where your shift points are and if they are too low, bring them up a little bit.

 

I used to have this problem in my Mazda also...kept trying to shift into 6th (1990 626) I just hit a certain RPM (usually 5 and 1/2k) and want to shift the bike. When I'm in 6th at about 65/70 I just sometimes try to shift again. There are no power issues at all. Just habit. Wondering if anyone else did the same thing...that's all.

 

I do it all the time on my 600 RR... but thats because the guy who had it before me stepped the gearing up. he went down a tooth in the front and up two teeth in the rear. The RR is already fairly low-geared and "busy" at speed, but now its nutz!! Ive only pushed it to 110 on my speedo (In the area of 100+ due to gearing change making speedo off). I too am used to shifting cars, lol... this particular bike has a power band starting somewhere near 6-8 grand and continues to the 15.2 rev limiter :P lol


anyway, take it easy, and yes, I think we all do it once in awhile hahaha,

Chris

 

I do it all the dang time. Im thinking about installing one of these though http://www.azsbk.com/4153000.html

 

ya in my f4i iv tryed that way to many times
but i got used to the high revving now its fun to get it really high revving in 6th gear

 

Yeah, I do it about once per ride. I think a louder pipe may help--the stock pipe is pretty hard to hear at that rpm with a helmet on.

 

I used to, now I count the gears in my head so I always know which gear I'm in.