is it safe to go past the redline from time to time when i say past the redline i mean like 13,000rpm or will some thing explode and pistons fly threw your chest and so on

i want to now because i want to try and find the very top speed so far i have only been able to do 180 in 5th and it would be on about 11,000rpm so in 6th it would be doin about 9,000rpm

would i be able to say put a 15 tooth on the front and in 5th or 6th go past 180

I'm not sure...

But for our US friends...  Just a friendly reminder...  deathlucky is referring to KM instead of MPH.

Redlining over a short amount of time i don't think would be too stressful on the GS motor but over extended rides such as long dist trips and such, i'd say you wouldn't want to put that much strain on the motor like any engine.

hahahahahahahahaha i wish it would go 180mph but then i would need to do some thing about the wooble its gets when im going over 170 how do i get rid of that

yer but i wouldnt be doing it that offten just when im runnin late for work lol

If works only like 20min away or so go for it. If your riding for 2+ hours straight i'd say you'd greatly decrease the life of the engine. I wouldn't redline my motor personally that much. I mean you got 6 gears to go through, you don't really need to redline, just go up to the next gear .

yer but im think put a 15 tooth on the front then i might be able to get et like 5 or 10 more km/h out of it

Quote from: deathlucky on July 08, 2006, 05:30:50 AM
yer but im think put a 15 tooth on the front then i might be able to get et like 5 or 10 more km/h out of it

use a 14 tooth. heres a thread http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=28026.0 discussing use of a 14 and you'll def get more of a difference out of a 14 than a 15t.

km are for those that cant count, metric sucks

Take an engineering or physics course and you'll wish the US used the metric system. (easier calculations) 

The valves start to float much over 10k RPM.  The more they float, the less power you're going to make and the greater risk you run of damaging the valves.  Because of the loss in power, I doubt you will be able to go much faster by running over redline.  If you got some stiffer valve springs you could resolve this problem, but don't know if it's worth it.

Also, the GS has a fairly long stroke compaired to a super sport bike designed to rev that high, meaning the pistons need to cover a greater distance and therefore move faster than say a GSXR revving at 13.5K.  Because of this, running over redline puts a lot of stress on the main and rod bearings, the crank, the rods, and the wrist pins. 

Personally I wouldn't do it, there's really no point, and it's really not a good idea.  Once in a while by mistake will be OK, but actually trying to run it past redline is not good.

There's an old m/c salesman saying, "If you want to go faster, get a faster bike".

impossible, valves don't float on the the gs.

Quote from: rangerbrown on July 08, 2006, 09:04:51 AM
impossible, valves don't float on the the gs.

This was sarcastic, no?  This whole thread has been pretty entertaining.

-Turd.

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Wind it out.  See what it'll do.  What is there to lose? 

i know there is a rev limiter on mine, ask me how i know

A couple times now, under hard acceleration, I screw up and miss a gear or something and my RPMs shoot up into the red zone for a second, and man I hate that sound... I don't normally go past 9k under normal driving conditions.

Quote from: deathlucky on July 08, 2006, 05:15:32 AM
would i be able to say put a 15 tooth on the front and in 5th or 6th go past 180

According to AlphaFire's post in his own Hahahahahahahahahahahaha - aka Impressions of a 14T sprocket thread, a 14T front sprocket will do 110 MPH (176 KPM).  Don't know if he was limited mechanically or by his nerve.  (I'm surprised Alpha hasn't noticed & responded to this thread yet.)

i just want a 19 or 18 front but now one has them, what is the bigest for the front? I GUESS I WILL GO DOWN IN THE REAR  damn caps i am not going to fix that, soo.

you ment to put that in caps so it looks sus ay lol

what is the highest rmp has ever take there bike up to i knw i have gone fairly high when i have shifted 1st to 2nd and it has sliped out of second and just one right up