Does the 14 tooth sprocket make much difference? I am thinking of changing mine as it revs high on motorway trips. But I don't want to loose the excelleration when thrashing around back roads.
Speedometer is off big time after changing front sprocket to 14T
- Thread starter HyperstradaHopeful
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What you will loose is:
Top speed, and you will have higher rew on motorways.
What you gain:
Rewing faster = stronger on all gears.
In slow trafic you can use higher gear = not that nervous in its behaviour.
Just got mine home from service and change sprocket.
Can only say that i love it.
Twisting the throttle on secon gear (3000 rpm) and the front wanted to rice.
(it did not do it before on that rew)
So if you travel on highway a lot, you might be better off with the normal 15 tooth sprocket.
And I thought mine is reving too high in top gear!! Sounds like I need 16 tooth front sprocket. Has anyone tried this?What you will loose is:
Top speed, and you will have higher rew on motorways.
What you gain:
Rewing faster = stronger on all gears.
In slow trafic you can use higher gear = not that nervous in its behaviour.
Just got mine home from service and change sprocket.
Can only say that i love it.
Twisting the throttle on secon gear (3000 rpm) and the front wanted to rice.
(it did not do it before on that rew)
So if you travel on highway a lot, you might be better off with the normal 15 tooth sprocket.
My dealership told me that they cannot correct/calibrate the speedometer on my '13 HS. This is definitely going to be of consideration when I go buy my next bike.
Within the Euopean Union (EU) the rules are as follows:
- the speedo may never never indicate less than the actual speed. (duh...)
- the maximum (!) deviation is 10% + 4 km/h.
So an actual 100 km/h could be 110+4=114 km/h on the speedo.
Modern Ducati's are pretty safe with an average of +8% (108 on the speedo is actually a decent 100 km/h).
In the Netherlands, we do not get our bikes tested/checked technically periodically (in Germany for instance they do), but fiddling with sprockets could result in a bad deviation and thus a fail in road legal approval/scrutiny (is that the proper word? I'm Dutch. Please be gentle).
- the speedo may never never indicate less than the actual speed. (duh...)
- the maximum (!) deviation is 10% + 4 km/h.
So an actual 100 km/h could be 110+4=114 km/h on the speedo.
Modern Ducati's are pretty safe with an average of +8% (108 on the speedo is actually a decent 100 km/h).
In the Netherlands, we do not get our bikes tested/checked technically periodically (in Germany for instance they do), but fiddling with sprockets could result in a bad deviation and thus a fail in road legal approval/scrutiny (is that the proper word? I'm Dutch. Please be gentle).
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