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Originally Posted by alvaro84
There are members at f650.com who even advise not to use this single under 4000 rpm - and I'm very sure they're wrong. If they were right, Teresa wouldn't purr like a healthy kitten after more than a hundred thousand kilometers.
On a side note, they also fear coasting, especially in a turn. They cross themselves when they hear about using the kill switch that's right at their right hand. They fear bikes that aren't faster than anything around them. They seem as superstitious as a sailor to me  |
I read a lot of superstition too. Some old school bikers will argue to the end about how they think you are totally out of control of the bike and are about to crash if you ever coast with the clutch in. Silly! They insist that you MUST engine brake down through every gear every time you come up to a stop light. Rrr, Rrr, Rrr, Rrrrrr! Look at me! I'm so cool!
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Your BMW may be so torquey that the term lugging may not even apply. You could probably just dump the clutch when you take off without even stalling. My CBR250R bucks violently if I try to give it any throttle below 2,500 and high revving bikes like the Ninja250 have no power whatsoever below 4,000. My Ninja doesn't buck as much being a twin but I know that it is in a poor efficiency range when trying to accelerate for a pulse at that rpm. This lack of productivity is also what I call lugging.