YourGraveDigger83
Wannabie Member
Ok to start out, I have owned a Harley Sportster 883 for the last 7 years. Well I sold it last week and got a Suzuki Bandit 600S. I am having a problem with shifting this new bike. I have never owned a sports bike, well I had a 600 Ninja as my first bike, but it was in horrible condition, barely ran, didn't shift properly and was a (POS) so i can not use that as a means of looking back to fig our this problem. My Hearly didn't have a RPM gauge so I had to go off engine sound. When I would hear the RPMs get high I would switch and you could tell the bikes RPM get significantly lower. Well my new bike has a RPM gauge and I have caught myself looking at the RPMS a lot.
When I am in first I switch between 5 to 7k RMP, from first to second I don't see a huge drop in RPM. It will drop to like 4k. Each gear after that doesn't seem to drop in RMP hardly at all. Am i shifting the bike wrong? At first I thought I was miss shifting, but found out I was not. I know I am dealing with a different monster and maybe I am just looking to much into it. The bike rides extremely smooth, shifts smooths, but it seems like the RPM is high. I can go to 9.5 basically before it red-lines. Can anyone help me with with what I'm doing wrong. Now I will say the gentleman I got the bike off of put after-marker pikes that are louder (it sounds amazing). This could be my problem but i don't know!
thx everyone!
When I am in first I switch between 5 to 7k RMP, from first to second I don't see a huge drop in RPM. It will drop to like 4k. Each gear after that doesn't seem to drop in RMP hardly at all. Am i shifting the bike wrong? At first I thought I was miss shifting, but found out I was not. I know I am dealing with a different monster and maybe I am just looking to much into it. The bike rides extremely smooth, shifts smooths, but it seems like the RPM is high. I can go to 9.5 basically before it red-lines. Can anyone help me with with what I'm doing wrong. Now I will say the gentleman I got the bike off of put after-marker pikes that are louder (it sounds amazing). This could be my problem but i don't know!
thx everyone!