what did you do with your fazer today ?

[tommyardin]

So that's why you wanted the electronic gear display, 'cos you were actually in 3rd at the time and dropped down to 1st, hence the lovely clear still picture. 

LoL! Not sure about 11500 rpm in first.
I used that video grab frame because that was the revs that Unfazed mentioned in his post. My bike has done 34,000 miles now and will do 128 mph in 5th and just a tad over 140 in top, it will not quite get to the red line in top. Well that's what I have done been told  :bobby  you may be able to wring a couple more clicks out of her given the length of road and the size of the balls, but I happy with her.
I have been informed that the standard front sprocket is 15 tooth but noticed that mine has a 16 tooth front sprocket and was told that this sprocket configuration would make the bike better for mpg and touring but would soften the performance, acceleration in particular, I could not imagine it being quicker on the uptake than it is, under really hard acceleration say from 40 upwards in second the front wheel skips and pats the road as she wants to lift, and doing power clutch outs in second about 7,000 rpm the old girl rears up, frightens the s--t out of me, I don't do wheelies. I have a new Renthal 15 tooth front sprocket that I purchased a week or two ago, in the summer I might put it on to see what difference it does make.  :faz :thumbup


The above speeds are taken from my TomTom sat nav and not the Fazer speedo as she tends to be about 3 or 4 miles per hour on the generouse side, I have seen 144 mph on the speedo but as said it's generous, I was wondering if the sprocket size interfered with the speedo reading but it can't as speedo is on front wheel revolutions I believe.