Lonewrench;179853 wrote: I would run 15-43 and call it love, If you want the best gear ratio,the best wheel base ect these are the numbers. It really doesnt have anything to do with the lap time. Its more about the over all set up of the gear box and wheel base. Just run it like I said with a 114 link chain. If running a 46-47 tooth sprocket were the way to go I think we would have done it.
This is just my opinion of course,my goal is to keep you guys on the track and doing laps, happy laps. Maybe sometime in the future we can all sit down and discuss what proper gearing is all about but to have the max fun with the best chance of improving your lap time and overall riding experience I will offer Dane Westby's R6 set up notes from the past three seasons to the S.E. Nesba guys. This WILL get you where you need to go.:rtfm:
:adore:Thanks a bunch, Chuck. Understand that I was in no way disputing the setup you suggested. I am new to this bike, and the Yamaha brand, so I have no idea the differences from one generation to the next.
My experience with gearing comes from racing shifter karts all over the Southeast, winning the series one year even! We always tried to gear for max power on the longest straight in sixth. It seems that since Barber doesn't have any long straights, the Pro guys are probably gearing to use all of fifth (or even only fourth), but never hit sixth, since that would make 1st and 2nd essentially unusable gears, and T5 is tight enough to be exactly a second gear corner if geared high enough.
I ride this bike on the street as well, and don't really want to depart too much from useful street gearing (maybe should have said that up front
), so I'll probably gear it for getting off of T5 well enough and ride around the rest...I have a goal for laptimes, but I need to take my bike home in the same condition it arrived, so I don't really need a podium setup
/hijack
