Gearing and highway speeds?

[SL70]

So I have test ridden the CB11 and really liked it, didn't get to spend much time at higher freeway speeds though. How do you like the 5 speed and the final gear ratio, is it relaxed at 65-70, or is it revving kind of high? Any buzziness/vibration issues?
I would want this bike to do everything from short trips around town to the once or twice a year week long tour.

[Obliviontoad]

Around 4000 rpm at 70? Is that right? I dunno, my vision was blurry from the grin under the helmet. And I was watching for cagers trying to help with the bodywork. Oh, and I only went that fast for short time, just to get it to operating temperature...

I am looking at all kinds of options for storage. Wish they made the NX700 style clip on panniers for the CB1100. At least ones that fit the look.

[Guth]

Feels plenty relaxed to me at those speeds, but the only other street bike I've ridden for comparison is my '88 Hawk GT.

[SL70]

(04-25-2013 07:48 PM)Obliviontoad Wrote:  Around 4000 rpm at 70? Is that right? I dunno, my vision was blurry from the grin under the helmet. And I was watching for cagers trying to help with the bodywork. Oh, and I only went that fast for short time, just to get it to operating temperature...

I am looking at all kinds of options for storage. Wish they made the NX700 style clip on panniers for the CB1100. At least ones that fit the look.

I'm thinking some basic soft generic luggage will be fine for the occasional trip. I have a cruiser duffel bag that will fit nicely on the passenger seat, that plus some soft throw-over saddlebags (wait. do they need some kind of brackets?) and I'll be set for my annual one week trek. I can't see this bike with hard bags attached. JMTC.

[INTP]

I am thinking about going up one tooth on the front sprocket, but I only have 50 miles on the bike.

[Flynrider]

(04-25-2013 06:52 PM)SL70 Wrote:  How do you like the 5 speed and the final gear ratio, is it relaxed at 65-70, or is it revving kind of high? Any buzziness/vibration issues?

I've found that the lack of vibration cues is going to take some getting used to. Twice I've found myself going down the freeway at 75 in third gear, happy as a clam. Only when I looked at the tach did I realize that 4th or 5th might work better.

I'm used to my CB750 which runs at 5000 rpm at 75 in top gear. The CB11 is only turning about 4200 rpm at 75. I actually stick to 4th gear on the highway unless I'm planning on spending a lot of time around 75 or higher. Although the engine pulls nicely from the low rpms, I prefer to keep it in the sweet spot on the power band that kicks in around 4800 rpm.

The gears are nicely spaced and there's no need for a 6th gear as far as I'm concerned.

[redReno]

(04-26-2013 08:28 PM)Flynrider Wrote:  

(04-25-2013 06:52 PM)SL70 Wrote:  How do you like the 5 speed and the final gear ratio, is it relaxed at 65-70, or is it revving kind of high? Any buzziness/vibration issues?

I've found that the lack of vibration cues is going to take some getting used to. Twice I've found myself going down the freeway at 75 in third gear, happy as a clam. Only when I looked at the tach did I realize that 4th or 5th might work better.

The gears are nicely spaced and there's no need for a 6th gear as far as I'm concerned.

I am very happy with the gears, almost want to say I don't need a 4th or 5th gear haha

[PowderToastMan]

Yeah, or with all the gears, you can seriously get by without even going over 4k RPM.
I have only barely started to go over that, that's where the bike feels like it's about to really take off, and you get a little bit of vibration on the handlebars. I don't want any speeding tickets, so that's where I decided to hold off

[Lord Popgun]

Is there a hp/torque curve somewhere for our bike?

[OldF7Guy]

(04-27-2013 03:20 AM)popgun Wrote:  Is there a hp/torque curve somewhere for our bike?

Try this. Its at the bottom of the page.

http://oneveryotherstreet.blogspot.com/2...-1100.html

I am kinda hoping one of you hot rodders will dyno test a CB11 as well.