HP & speed upgrades

[gregvhen]

Everyone is forgetting the two most important mods...

1 - removing tank idiot stickers adds 5hp
2 - using full cream milk in the handlebars; powdered milks just does't cut it.

Wow wow wow, I said skim milk guys skim.

Edit: also I've had mine up to 130 I think with the stock pip but I don't remember. Mighta been with my v&h

[mister]

Everyone is forgetting the two most important mods...

1 - removing tank idiot stickers adds 5hp
2 - using full cream milk in the handlebars; powdered milks just does't cut it.

Wow wow wow, I said skim milk guys skim.

Full cream works as long as it's homogenized. Just no powdered milk - and no extra calcium milk either, for that matter. And an extra No No is Flavored milk - the milk that's sold as flavored is not suitable to be bottled as anything else, so they add flavor to it to mask it's yuckiness, so no flavored milk either. Ideally skim and then homogenized full cream. No other milk can be used.

Michael

[bill14224]

Without the aid of a hill or tailwind this bike will do about 105 naked and the F will do about 112.  This bike needs 20 more HP to do 130.  Read David Johnson's "Racers Corner" on this site and you'll see how his stripped bike with moderately modified engine goes 120, and that's with about 55 HP, which is all you can get out of this engine without spending "approximately the cost of a Subaru", according to David.

Like the others said, it's not worth the $ to chase HP with this bike.  The weakest part is suspension, then brakes.

[the mole]

If I had like 5 bucks for every time someone has asked this questio and gotten that response I could pay off these speeding tickets I have pending right now and buy a faster bike.....twice.

I wonder why we keep posting that response?  

[gregvhen]

Without the aid of a hill or tailwind this bike will do about 105 naked and the F will do about 112.  This bike needs 20 more HP to do 130.  Read David Johnson's "Racers Corner" on this site and you'll see how his stripped bike with moderately modified engine goes 120, and that's with about 55 HP, which is all you can get out of this engine without spending "approximately the cost of a Subaru", according to David.

Like the others said, it's not worth the $ to chase HP with this bike.  The weakest part is suspension, then brakes.

yea i mighta had some wind behind me i guess, but i was fairly level ground. maybe downhill 1 foot every 100

[pave_spectre]

Like the others said, it's not worth the $ to chase HP with this bike.

That may be the case, but the real question that should be asked is "Is it worth the enjoyment factor", whether that enjoyment comes from the act of modifying or from the end result.

[burning1]

My street bike makes about 160, and I've ridden bikes that make even more than that. Some guys are building busas that make upwards of 800 HP. 300MPH is the new target speed No amount of power is 'enough.'

We install pipes, rejet, etc... because we want to muck with our bikes, not because it actually makes a lick of difference to the vast majority of us.

[gregvhen]

My street bike makes about 160, and I've ridden bikes that make even more than that. Some guys are building busas that make upwards of 800 HP. 300MPH is the new target speed No amount of power is 'enough.'

We install pipes, rejet, etc... because we want to muck with our bikes, not because it actually makes a lick of difference to the vast majority of us.

true story. ive hopped on a few busas at work and man do they haul... but if i had one i would still try to get more out of it haha. actually id sell it and get a differant bike. and then try to get more out of that. just not a busa fan