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John_D FSO Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' and smilin' Posts: 1658 Vancouver, WA Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #30 - 04/19/10 at 22:32:16 I had mine around 90 mph indicated, with a little throttle left. Dunno if the extra throttle would've got me more speed, since I ran out of nerve. That was with a Dyna muffler, and around 1/2 a white spacer's worth of washers, and my chin on the bars. Oh, and 200+ lbs of me...
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crabpainter Full Member Offline Look Twice Save A Life Posts: 101 Kentucky Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #31 - 04/20/10 at 01:32:39 I've had mine up to around 70+ with every indication there was more to be had. All I could hear was wheezing through the air box. No mods on this bike.
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Reply #32 - 04/20/10 at 02:12:09

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.

apples and oranges man; a high reving short stroke multi-cyl 2 stroke is totally different than a long stroke big single.

There is just no comparison to the torque made by a long stroke big single...I love it.

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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 #33 - 04/20/10 at 02:14:03 Routy wrote on 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. The Black Shadow is the name I gave the bike that my son bought from Diamond Jim a few months back.
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shiphteey YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 37	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #34 - 04/20/10 at 07:05:41 95.9 mph on GPS, speedo was pretty accurate with my worn out stock tire. I believe I can break 100 mph as I've had the speedo showing 103 on a day with good air. Taller tire will go on to help with the mission. A.
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Reply #35 - 04/20/10 at 11:59:53

Stock Bike (see sig)

After riding the back roads far from home I took the I-5 back home. I don't normally go over 70mph when cruising, but the weather was nice and I was pumped from the backroads, before I knew it I was around 83mph and passing everything. Cheesy

RPMs were around 5000-5250 and she still had more to give as I passed big rigs and small eco-cars.

I "cruised" home averaging about 80mph. I though she would drink more fuel at that speed for almost an hour, but nope same as normal.

Oh, my new tires (thread http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1267116732/25#25) have been absolutely fantastic. Don't skimp on the rubber, get great tires and you will enjoy your ride more.

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Re: How fast can stock savage go?
Reply #36 - 04/20/10 at 12:29:57

LANCER wrote on 04/20/10 at 02:12:09:

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.

apples and oranges man; a high reving short stroke multi-cyl 2 stroke is totally different than a long stroke big single.

There is just no comparison to the torque made by a long stroke big single...I love it.

I hope I wasn't misunderstood, I love the slow turnin stroker too.

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Duane Senior Member Offline Creatively Maladjusted Posts: 335 Terra Plane Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #37 - 06/14/10 at 02:23:21 mine tops out about 83mph, with or without a passenger.
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fascar228 YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 34 Islamabad Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #38 - 06/14/10 at 02:44:57 To whom it may concern 2010 S40.....stock except muffler mod....93mph flat...sitting straight....front end light....vibration..... won't do that again..... 65-75mph is manageable on this bike.....
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #39 - 06/14/10 at 03:35:18 Fascar are using stock jets?
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BuckRYCA Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 New London, CT, USA Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #40 - 06/14/10 at 12:52:52 Motorcycle speedos are often and notoriously optimistic. I've had them read 10% higher than actual (against a GPS). I've taken my daughter's stock Savage to 85 indicated. It was stable, but I was probably doing 77.
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Reply #41 - 06/14/10 at 15:50:57

I have checked my stock '07 against both mileposts and a GPS, and it is within a mile or so of correct at speeds up to 65 mph. I have not checked it at higher speeds. By the way, that is with the OEM IRC tire, much maligned by some. I replaced the original IRC with another, simply because the speedometer (and odometer) both are accurate using that tire.

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Jay Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1445 Fort Worth, Texas Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #42 - 06/15/10 at 01:09:06 I got my stock '08 up to 87 indicated before my PPF kicked in. (Personal Pucker Factor) As others have already mentioned, it starts to feel a little light in the front end at those speeds. Still had throttle left though.
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newcruiserRIDR YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 15	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #43 - 06/16/10 at 17:05:24 I take mine on the highway all the time, get to 125km/hr no problem (sorry I am canadian, I guess that is about 100mph).....just don't be so quick to get it into 5th and it still has a bit of acceleration when you kick it into 5th....nothing you can do about the vibrations, but hold on tight
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: How fast can stock savage go? Reply #44 - 06/16/10 at 18:25:58 Duane wrote on 06/14/10 at 02:23:21: mine tops out about 83mph, with or without a passenger. Thats because its geared to low,If they were gear 10% higher a lot of them would hit 100 mph.
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