A couple of questions,spedometer and suspension.
 

I changed the rear sprocket to a 43 and it seems that either the bike got faster ,or the speedo is out of whack.
I sure noticed the shorter wheelbase combined with the lower final gearing makes for a wicked wheelie bike :twisted: ,but I simply wont belive it was that fast.

Maybe the old bicycle speedo/odo trick may be in order??

Also,I have raised the rear end by shimming it,and twisted the preload all the way,the bike now spits me whenever I hit anything bigger than an adult lizzard,so I m ight want to back off a couple of clicks,I noticed what seems to be a rebound adjust in the shock,but could not acces it with any of my tools(it sucks)
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Re: A couple of questions,spedometer and suspension.
 

Yup, speedo is out of wack on regular gearing by about 8% from what I've read and changing your gearing will make it worse.

Re: A couple of questions,spedometer and suspension.
 

I was using the first position on the stock shock.
more than that there was no static sag.
you can adjust shock "rebound" at the right side of the bike with a screwdriver easily, bike on its side stand. raising the rear would be more tricky to access it... Try with a guy on your storm ...
1 turn out seems to be ok for a lot of storm riders.

Re: A couple of questions,spedometer and suspension.
 

Thanks guys.
Since this might be my introductory post,I have to introduce myself.
FYI,I use the VTR as a racing/track tool.Not that its the best ever track bike,but it was avalible at a fairly good price in mint condition,so I took the plunge.The speedometer is useless,even if it was calibrated OK you can not see the friggin numbers unless you wear magnifuing glasses,I will go along my girlfriends car at a 100MPH(indicated by her car) and just mark it down with a real colorful mark,so I know this is "The Zone" and equally mark the tacho from 5,000 to 9,000,for track use.
I have used the bike for my first race ever and I came up 4th out of 17 riders,including 4 or 5 Ducatis,and quite a few 4 inlines japanes riceburners,so I got to admit Im in some kind of love with my Chick... erm...Hawk!! :lol:
I also have a Yamaha FJR1300 that I absolutly love,and a Kawasaki KLR650 that I love too,for diferent reasons.I would love to have a RC51 ubt for now,I'll stick to the Hawk,since it wont go past 145-150,it might be a good thing for me.

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