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sixtwoishere -> HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 8:11:54 AM)

i am a newbie and have no idea about bikes and how they work!!i'm wanting to do a sprocket switch and don't know what to do. i know that i have to go smaller to get more acceleration. or less teeth.i'm just starting to get the front tire off the ground but need a little more power  to help me out.its an inexpensive way to get more power but i don't know what is good. i was looking and saw a 40 tooth for the rear and a 15 tooth for the front. i have a 2007 honda cbr 600rr and need some more oomph for a guy that weighs 215!!its my first bike.What is the best sprocket change for me to do?

  
letsride -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 10:52:50 AM)

I don't know what your stock gearing is,but normally everyone goes to a -1 on front +2 on rear

jwelch -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 11:04:36 AM)

Yea, above and let me explain.  A large rear sprocket will give you less top speed but more initial punch, or torque to get movin.. perfect for trying to wheelie. A smaller front sprocket will do the same, but be aware that one tooth smaller in the front sprocket equates to about 4 teeth on the rear sprocket. Good Luck..

gixxereater -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 11:34:05 AM)

One down on the front is equal to 2.77 up on the rear.  So....up 3 is a little more than going -1 up front. 

And.....just a word of caution, if you truly are a noob......please dont wadd up the new bike.  A wheelie should be the LAST thing on your mind.  Nor should more acceleration.  I weigh 200lbs.........I'm pretty sure that bike will accelerate PLENTY quick as is.  Also, if you cant wheelie it as is.......you have no business being on one wheel!!

crashkhanman -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 12:13:22 PM)

I know the stock rear tooth count on the CBR600RR7 is 42. The front has slipped my mind but it's either a 15 or 16th count sprocket. If you're trying to stunt the bike -1 +2 will work great. But if this is your first bike I would take more time to get to know it but you dump it.

Remember Cover that REar Brake! [:)]

sixtwoishere -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 12:27:22 PM)

well i been riding about four months now.it'll get my front tire up, it just would be a little easier with some more juice.plus i ride with some guys that have some 1000s and i have a hard time keepin up off the line.i'm not goin all crazy with the wheelies though.i'm just poppin it up at about 35mph. nothin too crazy.ive been wheelin about a month now. everybody told me that after a month or two that a 600 seems kinda slow. and it is now.just had the guys tell me to get some gears swapped out but i just didn't know what kind. im just power wheelin it right now is all so i dont go very high.and my foot is on the break at ALL times when i'm wheelin!ive seen a few guys that didn't and what happened to them.i'll take it easy though

baxsom -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 1:49:01 PM)

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ORIGINAL: crashkhanman

I know the stock rear tooth count on the CBR600RR7 is 43. The front has slipped my mind but it's either a 15 or 16th count sprocket. If you're trying to stunt the bike -1 +2 will work great. But if this is your first bike I would take more time to get to know it but you dump it.

Remember Cover that REar Brake! [:)]


wrong
stock gearing on a US spec 07 600RR is 16/42


jwelch -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 7:18:51 PM)

Wow.. after a month the 600 is "kinda slow". You must ride with Rossi and Hayden.

Nauree -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 7:38:45 PM)

Changing your stock gearing isn't going to add the xtra umph that your probably thinking. I have -1/+4 and I can honestly say it doesnt feel like I accellerate any quicker. Maby its just my bike though.

donniekak -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/8/2007 8:43:54 PM)

I'm willing to bet that the people who told you your bike will feel slow have a large area of unused rubber on the edges of their tires, and couldn't keep up with a good rider on an old f2 at the track.

baxsom -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/9/2007 4:13:31 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Nauree

Changing your stock gearing isn't going to add the xtra umph that your probably thinking. I have -1/+4 and I can honestly say it doesnt feel like I accellerate any quicker. Maby its just my bike though.


i havent read a more incorrect statement in a while.  there must be something wrong with your bike because that gearing should lauch a wheelie just looking at the throttle.

a -1/+2 is more than a lot of people can handle. 

sixtwoishere -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/9/2007 5:39:31 AM)

yeah i have a friend that has a -1/+2 and his bike will stand up easy and its lowered as well.he has just get on it pretty hard and it will get up. he said it made a huge difference in his acceleration.oh and thanks for the gearing specs.ive been tryin to figure out but haven't been able to find it. i'm orderin the front sprocket today.gettin it from vortex.thanks baxsom. and nauree that gear change may not have a difference not because of the bike but of the rider.ya gotta pull harder on the throttle to make it go faster

gixxereater -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/9/2007 7:00:38 AM)

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Wow.. after a month the 600 is "kinda slow". You must ride with Rossi and Hayden.


At least SOMEONE said it. 

I agree, if you think a 600 is slow (ESP an 07 RR) I wish you would sell it and check your ego at the door before you buy another one. 
THAT my friend is how you get hurt on a bike. 

sixtwoishere -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/9/2007 7:15:22 AM)

if you know what your doin you won't get hurt.when you act stupid is when you get hurt, not just when it feels slow sometimes. ride with a group of 1000s and and a couple of busas and tell me if you feel so fast anymore.not...your ass will get smoke when you ride with em.

gixxereater -> RE: HELP WITH SPROCKETS!!! (11/9/2007 7:35:02 AM)

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if you know what your doin you won't get hurt.when you act stupid is when you get hurt, not just when it feels slow sometimes. ride with a group of 1000s and and a couple of busas and tell me if you feel so fast anymore.not...your ass will get smoke when you ride with em.


Lets start over here.  First off.........I ride a 1000. 
Second........I can make 90% of the clowns riding 1000's look like vespa scooters on my wifes R6.  Hence the reason I ride a 1000.  Do i need to? Nope.  And at the track a 600 is my weapon of choice (or my 900RR when I had it).  The street is where I like the 1000 simply for it's bottomless torque.  Were I trying to go at full pace all the time.....a 750 would be the utlimate flagship.

So no.........i wont get smoked and I'm afraid that those boys on the 1000's are the folks that are going to feel slow.  I will take the Pepsi Challenge.  I have passed and lapped every manner of 1000 and "Busa" you could imagine at the track.  I've also had my plastic sucked off by AMA race prepped 600RR's by CCS champion level riders.  It's all in the rider and I'm willing to bet the guys that you ride with are not as great as you think. The bike is masking their skills, or lack there of.  Just as you want a quicker accelerating bike to mask your lack of skill.  Go to a track school or riding school and learn to ride and THEN tell me the 600 wont keep up.  It wont keep up because you dont know what you're doing.  If after 4 months you think you're good, you are in for a rude awakening my friend.  A stock SV-650 would make you look silly at the track so...........it's not the bike at all that makes it fast. It's the goon hanging on to it. 

Either way.....good luck.  You might as well buy a 1000RR if you are just trying to keep up with other 1000's.  Get it over with and dont waste your money on a 600 trying to make it fast enough to run with a liter bike because you wont squeeze 150+hp out of a 600 on a working mans budget.




  

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