Newbie help FZS 600 revs and gear

Passed my test and got a secondhand Fazer 600, I have ridden
a CG125 and an ER-5 Twin. What kind of rev's should I be using in
each gear, went for an overtake on a bit of National after a 40 limit
and drifted out moving forwards past them and then whoomf doing
90mph climbing to 100mph into the bend. Have really tried to
google this but **** all.

It's apparently a girls bike but 96hp ? seems fast enough to me,
basically should I be revving the **** out of it in each gear or
changing up so it sounds relaxed all the time.

A secondary problem , habit of slipping the clutch a lot, in every
gear, not until i've rounded a turn to a minor road will I let it out
fully in 1st any ideas.

 

I've a bandit 600 and I almost never have the revs below 6k, but then again,
I'm almost never in 5th or 6th.

I'm off the clutch as soon as.

 

thats bollocks , didn't know what speed I was doing and could have
changed gear without remembering, the road was blurring though.
was 80mph going to the bend it's the road int0 Dunsfold on the straight
near the White Horse

 

You didn't die, did you? Well, it can't have been that bad, then.

Use the appropriate rpm for the use you are putting the bike to and
what you want to do next. Bimbling along a straight, not in a hurry -
top cog, middle of the range. Preparing for an overtake - just at the
start of the powerband in the gear you have selected - that will give
you a good kick past, then you will be in front of the vehicle and
can change up at leisure.

You're fucking dangerously incompetent. Will that do?

You need riding practice and practice in controlling your hands, son.
Don't slip the clutch so much and learnt to control the throttle
properly. Figure-of-eights in an empty car park for you - until
you've got it right.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, rob2 amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Being in the proper gear for the speed you are going will sort that out.

 

If he's in first *and* slipping the clutch - perhaps doing the right
speed for the gear selected may be better in this case. Or a bigger
rear sprocket ...

 

Bear says...

 

not that i'm aware of

 

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That's almost what the old bloke on the pavement [outside the shop]
said when I revved the **** out of it in neutral after buying it. He was
on a 4 wheeler mobility cart and told me about his 40 years
riding experience in a friendly term, said to take it easy.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pip amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Yes, but I thought I must've made an error in reading it because the
fule'd be upright at that sort of clutch slipping gear. Riding that
slowly would be dangerous ihmo. I can't think of any situation, other
than riding through a road wide wet cow pat on a hairpin that would
warrant that kind of skill.

Indeed, one the size of the latest 12" remix of something or other.

 

Kevin Stone wrote

I too have a bandit 600 but most of the time I am too busy hanging on
for me life to be looking at rev counters.

I like to think I am but I am not sure sometimes.

 

You're not trying hard enough. Get the power on earlier.

 

Just ride the thing, listen to what it's telling you. On the overtakes,
if you open the throttle and it doesn't go fast enough, mash it down a
couple of gears until it does. If it still doesn't go fast enough, buy a
bigger bike.

On the just riding score, don't expect a 600cc bike engine to slog along
at just above tick over in top. Again, listen to the bike, it mostly
wants to be in the rpm range in between revving its nuts off and the
other extreme of nothing much happening when you open the throttle.

 

To be fair, mine seems a lot more flexible than a lot of the other 600s I've
had, as in it pulls better from lower down in some respects, but then given
they're basically a mildly detuned Thundercat lump, only to be expected.

Unlike my old GSX750F though, it still pulls nice and sweetly through to
13.5k, without any flat spots, whereas the GSX seemed to hiccup at just over
10k.

 

I'd say that my FZR has the most flexible engine on any bike I've owned,
ok so it's not the most powerful bike but... usable power from 5000 to
18000, that's a spread of 13000 rpm. Not bad at all.

 

You use whatever gear/revs is appropriate for what you are doing -
intend to do next. If you are trickling gently along, then a high gear
is appropriate. If you are about to overtake and it might prove to be a
tight manouver, then aim for the gear which gives you revs just at the
start lower end of the power band.

Entirely your choice. High revs all the time will wear it out faster
and cost in fuel.

On a tight turn then you might need to slip the clutch as well as hold
the rear brake on to control it. You should not be slipping the clutch
(or needing to) in any but 1st gear.

 

Harry Bloomfield explained :

Once clear of the vehicle you are overtaking, it is prudent to ease off
the loud pedal and change back up.

 

If it's the straight I think in the NSL just after 40 and past the
vineyard 120+ is quite possible on a 600 Fazer before slamming the
anchors on for the bend.

 

Dunno what sort of strange motorcycle you ride, with a throttle pedal.

 

muck@_TEETH_rulex.net (Muck) struggled to ejaculate:

The same sort that drives him to repeat, almost verbatim, my earlier
post.