6th gear
- Thread starter bigguns55
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Wow...maybe I've still got some sport bike blood from my younger days, but I'm typically just shifting into 5TH at 60-70mph!! I don't get into 6th until at least 85!
'16 SGS
K&N Heavy Breather
V&H Dresser Duals
V&H Eliminator 400 slip-ons
V&H FP3 Tuner
'16 SGS
K&N Heavy Breather
V&H Dresser Duals
V&H Eliminator 400 slip-ons
V&H FP3 Tuner
I need to ask a question for a friend 
He and a 90's era transam that had some engine/exhaust work done were on a deserted 3 lane highway. They were toying with each other. One would slowly pull ahead of the other, then vice versa. Eventually my friend in his 16 Street Glide Special found himself ahead at 75 mph, and shifted to 6th. He looked in his mirror to see the guy wanted to still keep up, so he kept it in 6th and gradually rolled on the throttle up to 110, when the transam pulled along side. My friend just kept it at that speed and in 6th gear, but the transam guy gave a grin, downshifted, and blasted way ahead and that was that. Afterwards, my friend got to wondering if he too could have downshifted at that speed? Could he have downshifted from 110 in 6th gear to 5th gear without the engine braking and RPM's being too high? I see the shift point diagram, but wasn't sure if that still applied in this instance when downshifting?
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He and a 90's era transam that had some engine/exhaust work done were on a deserted 3 lane highway. They were toying with each other. One would slowly pull ahead of the other, then vice versa. Eventually my friend in his 16 Street Glide Special found himself ahead at 75 mph, and shifted to 6th. He looked in his mirror to see the guy wanted to still keep up, so he kept it in 6th and gradually rolled on the throttle up to 110, when the transam pulled along side. My friend just kept it at that speed and in 6th gear, but the transam guy gave a grin, downshifted, and blasted way ahead and that was that. Afterwards, my friend got to wondering if he too could have downshifted at that speed? Could he have downshifted from 110 in 6th gear to 5th gear without the engine braking and RPM's being too high? I see the shift point diagram, but wasn't sure if that still applied in this instance when downshifting? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
I need to ask a question for a friend
No problem. The engine has no measure of what speed you are going, only engine rpm matters. Just don't close the throttle all the way when downshifting as the engine needs to increase in speed during the shift.
Ah, very interesting. Thank you. How much throttle are we talking roughly?
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Enough to keep the engine at 5000 rpm during the shift. Then right back to WOT as the clutch re-engages.
My answer would be it depends a bit on the download that is on the bike. If it has a stage one download and the rev limiter is set up to 6200 it would be fine. At 110 I could easily drop down to 4th gear and with the higher rpm cams in my bike run it up a bit then grab 5th and get ready to go.
Awesome. Thanks. These are things they obviously don't teach in the rider's course I took many years ago lol
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It has pipes, but no high flow air cleaner or remap
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