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Chiefharlock

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on: October 09, 2011, 04:27:08 am
....You can call me crazy if you like, but I think it would be totally rad if RE put out a 6 speed...
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Reply #1 on: October 09, 2011, 06:02:13 am
Okay, you're crazy!   :D

I think the 5-speed matches the UCE power very nicely.
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Reply #2 on: October 09, 2011, 01:59:48 pm
I'm not saying it doesn't, but there is def room there for either a longer 5th gear or a 6th gear.
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Reply #3 on: October 09, 2011, 05:08:04 pm
A sixth gear would be nice.


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Reply #4 on: October 09, 2011, 05:13:47 pm
Yes... We could always use access to another false neutral.. Haha..  Fifth gear is already a 1:1 ratio I think, we'd have to have an overdrive ratio for a sixth. The current ratios seem to fit well with the bikes and what they were built to do.
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Reply #5 on: October 09, 2011, 07:54:36 pm
Which weakness shall be cured by implementing a sixth, Br. Chiefharlock?
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Reply #6 on: October 09, 2011, 10:32:20 pm
For highway use a overdrive 6th gear might be nice but if 6th gear was left at a 1:1 ratio and they reduced the change in ratios between 1st and 6th it would IMO be unnecessary.

Those close ratio gearboxes are nice for "peaky" engines which must be kept in a very narrow range of RPM but IMO the Royal Enfield with its high torque spread over a wide range of engine speeds really doesn't need it.
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Reply #7 on: October 09, 2011, 11:01:23 pm
An over drive for the highway where you are doing over 55-60 would be great.  Its just an observation I have made over the past couple of days of rolling through Missouri's stretches of Rte 66 and in and around Osage Beach.
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Reply #8 on: October 10, 2011, 01:21:19 am
Just put an 18 tooth sprocket on it. That would have the same effect.
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Reply #9 on: October 10, 2011, 02:06:38 am
 I would like a wide ratio transmission gear set designed to compliment the 18 or 19 tooth drive sprocket.

Such a set up would give the same final drive ratio in first as stock.
Second through fourth wold be spaced appropriately and top would be 1:1
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Reply #10 on: October 10, 2011, 02:29:55 am
will the 18 tooth fit on the c5 w/ kicker?
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Reply #11 on: October 10, 2011, 04:21:50 am
 IIRC 18 tooth is standard on the C5.

 In a nut shell a 19 T should roughly do for a C5 with its 18" wheels what a 18 T would do for a G5 with its 19" wheels.

CMW should have the sprockets in stock but they may not be listed on the stores website.
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Reply #12 on: October 10, 2011, 04:14:29 pm
Ice, thanks for clearing that up for me...
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Reply #13 on: October 10, 2011, 07:48:22 pm
Considering the available power to these bikes.  The 5 speed is just right.  The older bikes have a 4 speed that worked pretty good for a long time.   IMHO the C5 is set up just as it should be.   I would not want to change anything (including the counter shaft sprocket).   Maybe I am just a little lazy, the 6 speed would be too much shifting for me.

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Reply #14 on: October 10, 2011, 09:09:57 pm
+1.  I get lost a lot when I have a 6 speed gearbox.  What gear was I in again?

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