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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #15 - 04/18/10 at 20:11:44

jef.savage wrote on 04/18/10 at 19:44:26:

Motorcycle Consumer News reports the top end of a '96 at 85mph. Has anybody checked indicated speed against actual?

my '96 would do 85 uphill (it's a hill I travel daily, it's steep enough to make truckers cry)
OK I did rejet and have a supertrapp on.
And confirmed speed with a veypor vr1

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Reply #16 - 04/18/10 at 20:23:57

Yes, lazy sounds nice. Reving high at 60 sounded like my engine was working too hard. Serowbot wrote on 04/18/10 at 18:53:08:

Routy wrote on 04/18/10 at 18:34:47:

Fact,?......we have a better chance of doing 90 in 4th than 5th
Fact,?....... the engine flat runs outta hp around 90 in 5th gear

So then, why on gods green earth do some want a higher final gear?

Very true Routy,... but most don't want it for a higher top speed,... just for a lower Rpm cruise at 70 mph...
The bike don't mind going 70,... people just like the lazy sound of runnin' lower Rpm's...

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Reply #17 - 04/18/10 at 20:25:16

I think it's stock setup.bill67 wrote on 04/18/10 at 16:24:10:

Tiefighterpilot wrote on 04/18/10 at 15:58:20:

Took my s40 on freeway today for the first time. Hit about 60. I was on fifth and engine was reved up high. I could feel the vibration of the engine on the handlebar. If I try to go faster, would it strain the engine? Will I hurt my savage by going faster?

How fast have you taken your stock savage?

It is revving high because its geared low.

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Tiefighterpilot Senior Member Offline Daily Rider Posts: 346 San Francisco	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #18 - 04/18/10 at 20:26:14 Yonuh Adisi FSO wrote on 04/18/10 at 16:14:27: It may sound like that you are taxing the engine at 60mph but you really ain't. In stock configuration the top speed on these bikes is usually 85+. Good to hear that. Thanks.
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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #19 - 04/18/10 at 21:08:08

Speaking of wanting a higher final gear,......
If we're fresh outta horsepower at 85, I'm sure we don't have a lot of reserve power at 60, especially at only 4,000 R's.
Now if we raise the gearing,..... drop those R's to 3500 or less, we won't have any reserve power, and we will be taxing the engine, and wondering why the pipes are turning blue w/ just a little headwind,....ya think?

Why anyone would think 4,000 R's at 60 mph, is reving too high, I don't understand. I remember the days ridin those hi revin short stroke twins that you had to rev to 10,000 to get anything out of them. At 60 mph I think the gearing is perfect for crusin. The factory engineers didn't gear it that way because they are stupid.

But now if we bump the HP up to 50-60, yeah, we mite used a little taller gear.

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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #20 - 04/18/10 at 21:27:44

i routinely travel at a constant 65 mph on my way to work. i have found that for my bike, this is a perfect highway cruising speed. there is virtually no vibration. if i drop down to 60 in 5th, the vibration tickles my foot and makes it twitch

. i try to maintain the speed limit at all times but have many times found myself above 70. i have go at least 85 on the bike if not higher when passing but my body doesn't like that speed. the bike is fine with it. also the wind here in el paso can take a toll. i tend to think that going above 80 on a motorcycle is ridiculous and if you do that on a regular basis, you are asking for trouble eventually. we have had at least four deaths in el paso this month and all were due primarily to excess speed.....i'm good at 65

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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #21 - 04/18/10 at 22:26:17 My 85mph was measured o a GPS.
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Reply #22 - 04/19/10 at 02:30:14

Routy wrote on 04/18/10 at 21:08:08:

Speaking of wanting a higher final gear,......
If we're fresh outta horsepower at 85, I'm sure we don't have a lot of reserve power at 60, especially at only 4,000 R's.
Now if we raise the gearing,..... drop those R's to 3500 or less, we won't have any reserve power, and we will be taxing the engine, and wondering why the pipes are turning blue w/ just a little headwind,....ya think?

Why anyone would think 4,000 R's at 60 mph, is reving too high, I don't understand. I remember the days ridin those hi revin short stroke twins that you had to rev to 10,000 to get anything out of them. At 60 mph I think the gearing is perfect for crusin. The factory engineers didn't gear it that way because they are stupid.

But now if we bump the HP up to 50-60, yeah, we mite used a little taller gear.

If your geared higher and need more power you just shift to 4th gear,I had a Suzuki GR650 gear a 1000 rpm less than stock and really loved it.And It would still pull from 40 mph in high gear,It was a torquey engine like the S40.

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10661 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #23 - 04/19/10 at 03:21:42 The Black Shadow, stock except for a baffled slightly enlarged drag pip and rejetted/tuned stock carb, pulled 94 and I will sitting bolt upright. No strain noted at all.
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #24 - 04/19/10 at 04:39:24 Darn, now you makin me go look up a Black Shadow,....cuz I been outta bikin ever since my new CB 450 and new 750 Atlas.
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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #25 - 04/19/10 at 06:33:55

92 mph in 5th with nothing more to give. Checked by a staionary speed trap with digital display. 95.4 mph checked on the runway of a local military base, I won't name which one as it wasn't very 'legal'. Leaning down as low as I could with a 3mph cross wind from the east as I headed S-SE. Very light on the front end too. I'm gonna put a little heavier oil in he forks and put a narrowr front tire on and slip on a 16" in the rear. I'm betting with that and some carb/exhaust tuning-100mph easy.....

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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #27 - 04/19/10 at 13:31:02

PILOT:

dude, my pos 1997 Yamaha SR 125cc goes exactly
65mph if I duck my head Cheesy

you have a savage!!!
...if the road permits, have some fun & go for it!

I've done 85mph on a savage for hours at a time,
does not hurt them, just monitor your oil before
and after runs like these, some savages will "eat"
a bit of oil at high speeds ...onom nom nom.

...yours vibrates? whaaat? Shocked

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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #28 - 04/19/10 at 15:12:54 The best my '02 could do stock was 85-87mph with no windshield. With a rejet, opened exhaust, a small wind screen and some other tinkering I've seen 95mph twice. I'm shooting for the ton mark but think that I will need to put a stage one cam in to get there.
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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #29 - 04/19/10 at 17:40:49

I know ive broken 95 at times. Stock gearing

I walked a Honda civic that indicated an accurate 90 mph through some back roads. Never once had it on the highway.

This is without going over 2/3 throttle cause my carb is not set up right.

Full exhaust, straight through muffler, ported exhaust runners, 40mm flat slide carb.

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