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Message started by Mortation on 03/05/09 at 07:52:45

Title: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by Mortation on 03/05/09 at 07:52:45

While going through the site I found this awesome writeup about a chain conversion:

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1174239333

At first I was wondering why anyone would want to do that as I wasnt thinking about gearing. Then when I thought about it and saw the chart:

http://suzukisavage.com/images/uploaded/Vroom-RPM-5th.jpg

It hit me :) Well my question is, why would anyone want anything besides the 12-38 setup? Looks like the best setup by the chart. So what are the pro's and con's of the different setups?

I may want to do this :) For $100 it cant hurt much!

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by verslagen1 on 03/05/09 at 08:00:58

yep 5th gear speed great.

The trade off is how slow can you go in 1st.

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by Mortation on 03/05/09 at 08:02:41

73607776696462606B34050 wrote:

yep 5th gear speed great.

The trade off is how slow can you go in 1st.

Oh crap good point. Another thing I didnt think of is I have an 88, so only 4 gears :(

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by verslagen1 on 03/05/09 at 08:03:43

end result the same.

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by Mortation on 03/05/09 at 08:08:12

5E4D5A5B44494F4D4619280 wrote:

end result the same.

Cool. Maybe I will do this in early June before bike week. I got a growing list of other stuff to keep me busy for now :)

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by thumperclone on 03/05/09 at 16:31:12

remember your speedo/odometer will be off apx. 10% to the slow/less mileage side

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by Mortation on 03/05/09 at 16:53:35

3B273A223F2A3D2C2320212A4F0 wrote:

remember your speedo/odometer will be off apx. 10% to the slow/less mileage side

True. Wonder if I could go with something aftermarket and calibrate it. Good incentive to ditch the tank and put something bigger on...

Title: Re: Questions about chain conversion and gearing
Post by Mortation on 03/05/09 at 16:54:47

25273A3C293C212726480 wrote:

[quote author=3B273A223F2A3D2C2320212A4F0 link=1236268365/0#5 date=1236299472]remember your speedo/odometer will be off apx. 10% to the slow/less mileage side

True. Wonder if I could go with something aftermarket and calibrate it. Good incentive to ditch the tank and put something bigger on...[/quote]

Maybe something like this:
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=258/category_id=366/home_id=60/mode=prod/prd258.htm