Originally Posted By: blupupher
grampi said:..
One of the good things if you have a chain drive, you can do a sprocket swap and change the gearing some. Shaft and belt drives are pretty much out of luck.
Not really,
I owned a VSTAR 1300 Tourer, LOVED THE BIKE, but hated the fact I had no sixth gear and hated the fact that YAMI intentionally covers up the lack of a sixth gear by making you think you are going 8 miles an hour faster they you are when traveling 80+ MPH and when you think you are doing 75 MPH you are only in the upper 60s!
Once i found this out with my GPS did I go on this 5 speed/6speed rant and the built in, intentional speedo error of many Asian bikes (possibly american and german bikes too, I dont know)
One common thread was always 5 speed bikes, now we know how honest companies are and I am sure, they intentionally make you think you are going faster then you are in order to stay within the law. Yeah, right, and I can sell anyone a bridge who wants to believe that. (not you, just talking)
Ok, back to my reply, I solved the problem on my Vstar 1300 by swapping out the Front Belt pulley with a pulley that had 1 extra tooth. If I remember correctly it was a 30 tooth pulley I had, the new one was 31 teeth or 31 teeth to 32.. anwyay.
The Yamaha Stryker has the same engine and trans mission as the 1300 tourer and one extra tooth in the pulley.
Once that new pulley was installed, OMG, I transformed the Vstar 1300 into an interstate cruiser. It lowered the RPMs at higher speeds by 200 to 300.
I loved it so much, I thought now I would own the bike forever (we all know how that goes) ... anyway, another benefit was, what do you know, now even the speedo is accurate, well, isnt that convenient! within the normal 3 Mph or so.
Anyway with some research, you can swap pulleys but yes, you need to get lucky like I did.
Once I posted my experience, many others in the Vstar 1300 forums did the same and LOVED the results. )
So anyone reading this can understand how I became so jaded against the speedo error. I love in a fast moving state and thought it was downright dangerous having cars ride up my butt and constantly pass me, then I realized I was actually going the speed limit and under, instead of over the speed limit by 5 to 10MPH.
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