Safe revs?

The 6500 redline on SF750's is seriously a joke. Why anyone would assume it's even close to practical is beyond me - some sort of weird leftover from a previous era - who knows? Maybe even more absurd on a triple, although piston speed is the same - 74mm stroke as per twins. As far as i was concerned the redline on my SF1 was 8000. Often saw that and never had any issues with damaged motor parts. And I've never looked at a tacho when racing or track day riding. If you can't 'feel' where the engine power has begun to drop away you don't have the required mechanical sensibility to race a Laverda because you will ultimately break it. Red's lights are a great idea as his motors produce power at seriously high revs (for a triple).

There are about 6 different cam profiles for twins - how can you assign the same redline to every one of them? An SFC with a 2/1 and 5/C cam starts to howl at 5000 and sings all the way to 8000+. 6500 redline? Yeah, right. Then there's the 6/C cam ...

Good racers were renowned for their mechanical sensitivity, a quality highly regarded; bad ones were renowned for being 'hard on motors' and had the DNFs to prove it.

I'll set a hard rev limit on my Ignitech to protect against false neutrals, but I doubt I'll ever unwittingly rev the engine to that point in normal thrashing.
 
No one is looking at tacos or shift lights when your racing, maybe when you first start riding the bike a bit, but once you become one with the bike you know where it’s making its power and when to change, granted sometimes the red mist floats in and you may push it a bit far or you can fuck up and miss a gear, that’s what a limiter is there for, if your worried about that sort of shit ride your bike a bit more or go buy a Prius or a scooter, just had a great night at eastern creek under lights and didn’t hit the limiter once…. Maybe I’m just getting old….
 
Dellortoman said:
There are exceptions. Mike Hailwood admitted on more than one occasion to being clueless with mechanical stuff. He just rode the bike and let his mechanics worry about keeping it going.
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Maybe so but he must still have had a good sense of and feel for what was happening even if he didn't understand the workings.
 
I like the rev limiter light on my RSV Mille. It's bright, blinks, and can be seen in periferal vision. It can be set at whatever rpm you want. I'm a pussy on that big V, so set it quite low, in keeping with my ever decreasing reaction times 😃
 
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Yes. You can program one of the power output pins (pin 3 or pin 12) to operate a shift light. Go to the "Power Out" tab in the software and check "pilot light" for whichever pin you're using, then set the revs.

The pin switches to ground when the programmed revs are reached, so you run a power wire to the shifter light, then run the earth via the pin on the Ignitech module.
 
One of the more memorable events, NSW Laverda Snowy GP as i called it, ran out of time to complete the "pimp mobile" as i named it, very quick ( not fast ) hybrid 81 Jota. The only thing missing was the complete instruments, just bar controls, first day the infamous green ute Victorian cop pulls us over...."your doing 106kph in a 100 zone".... me...that fast eh?... cop dont you know how fast your going...he peers into the fairing void of speedo or tacho... says nothing and off he goes... fun time that weekend, cleaned up a lot of old blokes on bikes.... that bike was very quick, handling good, no need to brake..and i did...brakes like new when i got back home, racing pushbikes you had no speedo, become very good at judging corner entry speed... just a bit of whimsy...j
 
Dellortoman said:
I'm surprised the cop didn't slap an unroadworthy sticker on your bike for not having a speedo.
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If he had started writing me up it would have delayed him on "the morning glory promise" i think he was on... was 7am, Grame did a runner while i stopped, "where's yer mate?" what mate?.... j
 
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