650 for starter / highway?

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#41 Unread post by ofblong »

Fast Eddy B wrote:Nobody's mentioned the BMW F650GS.

Why not?
uhh expensive comes to mind.
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#42 Unread post by Duane »

Thanks for the advise Rule & Flyn, it made me cringe a few times but I dropped down to fourth and had awesome response/power to pass and accelerate! Ran it at much higher revs this weekend and noticed a big difference in my freeway driving.
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#43 Unread post by Rule62 »

Duane wrote:Thanks for the advise Rule & Flyn, it made me cringe a few times but I dropped down to fourth and had awesome response/power to pass and accelerate! Ran it at much higher revs this weekend and noticed a big difference in my freeway driving.
It takes a while, but you'll get used to it. Although, I never could run my old XS400 at 7500 rpm for any length of time without thinking it was going to blow up!
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#44 Unread post by blues2cruise »

Rule62 wrote:
It takes a while, but you'll get used to it. Although, I never could run my old XS400 at 7500 rpm for any length of time without thinking it was going to blow up!
That's funny. When I first got my bike (I was still learning), I felt like the engine was going to explode if I was going over 100kmh. (60mph).
I eventually got over that feeling. :laughing:
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#45 Unread post by Dichotomous »

I upped the gearing in my SV and now it redlines at 50mph in first, I tried riding it only in first for a mile or two this morning, 0-50mph city and such, amusing, but I decided I prefer to use the other gears as well
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