Yes, but he did say he was overtaking a line of cars and had the throttle pinned. It does sound like he was flying. 8000RPM in 4th gear would be 171kph, about 105MPH.
Are you sure on the numbers? I don't know the ratio but I have had my terra to 93 mph in 5th at 5500. Would that be correct?
Don't know if the Strada gearing is the same as the Terra, but...20.5kph per 1000rpm in 4th, 24.5kph per 1000 rpm in 5th gear. This is "on the speedo", not neccessarily real speed.
5500rpm in 5th is 141kph / 88mph with standard gearing, so if it showed 93mph when you were doing a bit over 5500rpm that would be about right, with a bit of inbuilt speedo inaccuracy.
maybe 85 or 90 mph is my guess, my eyes never left the road so I'll never know, I too thought I was going over the handlebars, my fastest in 5th gear open road about 103 mph with no cut out, it started to do a wiggle so I let up on it. It sure likes to go.
I guess the only way to know to true speed would be radar or GPS. The bike is very smooth at speed for a thumper DS.
Bike fixed! The good guys at the stealership finally found the problem.....flywheel had a high point, balance issue. Replaced it and all is well. They were just about to change the loom and tried the flywheel. Damn im happy to have her back.
as far as I know they just replaced the flywheel with another stock unit. The motor is now 10000kms old and is running fine. No real vibrations , certainly smoother than the KLR's I've owned.
no lag. responsive and vibration free. make sure to let the electronics start up...dial should run all the way from 0 rpm to 10 000 and back. if it doesn't i switch off the ignition and start again.
My Terra almost killed me this weekend, was cruising at 130kpu on highway top gear 5000rpm, suddenly lost power and then the BACK BRAKE LOCKED!! luckily could keep it in line to standstill. now every time I hit 5000rpm the bike lose revs and the back brake lock. SCARY! anyone know what can be the problem?
Sounds more like the engine is stalling and what you are experiencing is sudden hard engine braking, not brake lock.
Nothing to do with ABS or braking. That is compression lockup you're experiencing. I'd get that bike to the dealer ASAP (and stay under 5000rpm). (and in future, pull the clutch and the rear wheel will resume rotating.
I have the bad habit of taking the statements literally... so taking for granted it's not the actual brake, I would go with the locked engine guess as well, but in that case I would go with engine seizure more than compression lockup, especially since you were just cruising. What I find very strange is that this happens exactly at 5000rpm, as if the ECU has entered some kind of limp mode (in the old days my "65 cc" Vespa had seizures at very different rpms). Do you experience the same problem when the engine is cold?
