So I have been doing some searching on rearsprockets. I'm trying to go up in teeth. I have a 2023 base model ftr with a full toce exhaust with a lyodz tune. I want more hooliganess. I don't really care about top speed since every one I've talked to says that no one has figured out the top speed limiter on it. I have a whole 6th gear that just doesn't get used. So why not get a bigger sprocket? Any good places for the new ftrs.
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Bigger Rear sprocket
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Just do a -1 in the front and you won’t have to change chains. Superlite makes them.
Charliemurphay
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As far as the top speed, stock tune I believe the limiter is set at 125mph. If you get the limiter removed with a tune, I think most agree that the flat out limit is somewhere in the 140-150mph range assuming stock gearing.
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I'm tracking 2022 and up there is no getting rid of the limiter. It already has a full exhaust and loydz tune. But, it still has the limiter.
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Pull the abs fuse
IMHO it would be doubtful a well tuned FTR will do 140 mph.
My GS1100E would do low 11s, with a top end of 140, something a stock FTR cannot do, even with the extra 20 hp.
The FTR is too tall to get off the line as quickly, hence 11.3-11.4 published ETs.
I love my FTR, but have no illusions about it's straight line performance.
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45t sprocket it will do in the mid 150s on an open road before it redlines.
With a bassani and a fuel moto tune 10.90s all day long... with a custom exhaust and new tune, 10.80s all day. With a 6 inch stretch and above mods, 10.40s. Tell me about the straight line performance again?
A properly jetted GS1100E with a pipe would be in the tens as well. It is also has a five-speed trans...and is forty pounds heavier. The four's basic chassis geometry (CG/weight distribution/wheelbase) just make for a bike that launches better.
Plus, the FTR first gear is ridiculously low, but second is just a little too high to start from. All my fours have been geared pretty well for acceleration.
With all that being said, I love my FTR, but missed the top end rush of my 'busa, so I also ride a '23 Triumph Speed Triple RS, which is as fast as the 'busa under 100 mph (before the 'busa aero really starts paying dividends).
Plus, the FTR first gear is ridiculously low, but second is just a little too high to start from. All my fours have been geared pretty well for acceleration.
With all that being said, I love my FTR, but missed the top end rush of my 'busa, so I also ride a '23 Triumph Speed Triple RS, which is as fast as the 'busa under 100 mph (before the 'busa aero really starts paying dividends).
Meh, "launching" better is subjective to the rider more than the bike imho. I've personally been 1.4 60 ft quite alpt on a stock wheelbased ftr running an 18 inch offroad type tire. It's about clutch control amd rider skill coupled with tire pressure ect. The ftr makes a fine drag bike that rally surprises everyone it goes up against. It's straight line performance is quite impressive actually. And it can corner.
No doubt rider skill influences the launch, but rider skill being equal and bikes OEM stock, an '83 GS1100E is faster and quicker than an FTR, while being fifty pounds heavier and about twenty HP less.
From a standing start, an stock FTR would run out of gas before it caught the stock GS.
As you can tell, I'm a fan of Japanese fours, and even if the (water-cooled) FTR can keep up with the (air-oil cooled) GS, it has the benefit of 36 years of technology.
One more thing...there is more to sporting street riding than straight line performance, but the Japanese owned straight line performance from 1969 until the relatively recent Italian big v-fours.
From a standing start, an stock FTR would run out of gas before it caught the stock GS.
As you can tell, I'm a fan of Japanese fours, and even if the (water-cooled) FTR can keep up with the (air-oil cooled) GS, it has the benefit of 36 years of technology.
One more thing...there is more to sporting street riding than straight line performance, but the Japanese owned straight line performance from 1969 until the relatively recent Italian big v-fours.
Dominator123
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I’ve done speedometer indicated 145 mph with straight pipes and a sub par tune that I made. After 130 she climbs slow but she keeps climbing, (For reference I have a dyno jet pv4 so I was able to remove the speed governor, and I bumped up the rev limiter to 9500 rpm so I wouldnt be held back by gearing)
Erskimo
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To remove the limiter or adjust it is as easy as it is to adjust any of the basic commands.....it takes longer to fire up the computer than it take to adjust it (if you have a power commander anyway)
vernwood83
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Are you implying that removing the abs fuse, gets rid of the speed limiter?
The 140 mph for the GS1100E was not confirmed by me, but numerous press reported legitimate (not speedo) 140 mph.
Speedometers can be radically inaccurate.
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Yes. But also causes your Speedo to not work
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