It seemed to me that you indicated that your bike could not achieve higher speeds than 96kph.
This is different than just using 96kph as a maximum cruising speed.
The bike should be capable of doing 125kph in a short term max speed burst.
So, we have two subjects here regarding speed.
You should continue to use 96kph as your maximum sustained cruising speed limit.
However, your bike should be able to reach somewhere near 125kph as a maximum speed for short bursts such as passing a car, or if you are doing some sporty riding on twistiy roads which allow you to have short bursts of high speed interspersed with slowing down for corners. The key factor here is not sustaining the higher speeds for long.
I apologize if I was unclear in my statements previously, but I always put the accent on the cruising speed limits so that people don't take their stock Bullets on the highway and seize a piston by doing sustained speeds over 96kph.
But that is a different thing than not being able to reach 125kph in a short burst as a max top speed for passing and such.
I hope this is clear now.
Regarding the fact that you were able to do 110kph for 30 minutes that time that you did that, it doesn't really mean that you would be able to safely do that again. The conditions were favorable for it, and you got away with it. It might be able to do it again. It might not. This is why we don't do it, because it often results in engine problems. It doesn't mean that you are guaranteed to have an engine failure when you do it, but years of historical data of these stock bikes show us that you might have one, so we advise against tempting fate.
The reason why we reacted the way we did from your post is that we were thinking that if your bike could not reach 125kph, then there must be some reason for it, such as being out of tune or something.
So again, to be clear, there are 2 different speed limits on these bikes.
The max speed it can attain, and the max speed it should safely cruise at.
And if you modify the bike properly for more power and cooling ability, then you can raise this cruising speed limit substantially. The bike can be made to cruise higher speeds when modified correctly. These caveats are mostly regarding the stock bikes. And slightly modded free-flowing bikes that are stock otherwise will generally get a few extra kph of cruising speed up to 100kph or so.
I hope that clears it up. All we want to do is help you avoid having expensive problems from things that have been seen often in the past history of the Bullet, and we use that data as a guide for our recommendations. We're not trying to kill your fun. There have been many Bullets seized at higher speeds than what are recommended for cruising, and this "cruising limit" has come about empirically after seeing what was "safe" to cruise at, and what speeds the problems were occurring at.