[bpcorsa]

Any thoughts on changing the size of front and/or rear sprockets?

Barry

 

[Personne]

For a longer or shorter gear ratio?
It's already quite short.

 

[bpcorsa]

Not sure, I have not been lucky enough to ride, was trying to get feedback from those that had?

Barry

 

[Personne]

The stock ratio seems great to me.

Shorter you wont be able to do higway in good condition, longer you lose some of the "thing" and the fuel consuption is already good.

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[D K]

The bike is geared very tall from the factory.

I will absolutely go shorter with the gearing.
I will start by going down to a 14 in the front.

That <should> make 2nd suitable for some of the tighter bends.

The other issue is if you ever see dirt, its better to have a shorter 1st so you dont have to slip the clutch all the time.

 

[silverluxe]

Hopefully when adding a tooth to the front sprocket the bike's fastest gear will still be 6th gear. I ran an extra tooth on my current street bike for years to calm down engine vibration at 65mph so I could cruise interstates more comfortably. Then at some point I realized the bike went faster in 4th gear than 5th due to horsepower and wind resistance (could get up over 100mph in 4th gear, but not in 5th) so I switched back to factory gearing so that the bike goes fastest in 5th gear.

A lesson I learned on my TW200 is that the factory gearing got the best fuel economy even though the engine ran at higher RPMs almost all the time when doing normal riding. For a while I had on a smaller rear sprocket for highway lower RPM but lugging the engine like that actually resulted in lower fuel economy. So once again, I switched it all back to OEM.

In this case, since the same engine has been used in the Monster 796 with one more tooth on the front sprocket, I presume all is OK in terms of changing it out to a bigger sprocket. It seems to have the horsepower to not care about a bigger front sprocket.

 

[Personne]

The bike is geared very tall from the factory.

I will absolutely go shorter with the gearing.
I will start by going down to a 14 in the front.

That <should> make 2nd suitable for some of the tighter bends.

The other issue is if you ever see dirt, its better to have a shorter 1st so you dont have to slip the clutch all the time.

You certainly want to check the gearing of the scrambler before saying that kind of things.
It has the same gearbox than the monster 796 but with a 15/46 chain drive where the monster has a 15/39.

It's already very short.

 

[bpcorsa]

Chain Wheels

I was thinking of dropping the rear from 46 to 44.
Until I ride it I will reserve any thoughts in changing.
Good to hear everyone's input so far.

Barry

 

[D K]

You certainly want to check the gearing of the scrambler before saying that kind of things.
It has the same gearbox than the monster 796 but with a 15/46 chain drive where the monster has a 15/39.

It's already very short.

To me, from riding, it feels very tall.
1st gear shouldnt go to over 50mph, and top gear at freeway speeds shouldn't be 4K either.

That's my opinion, YMMV

D

 

[Bubba Satori]

I submitted the Scrambler gearing stats to Gearing Commander a couple of days ago.
Gearing Commander: Motorcycle Speed, RPM, Chain & Sprockets Calculator
Once they are posted later this week everybody can figure out what gearing changes they want to make that best suit their riding needs.

 

[greer]

Thank you, Bubba!



Sarah

 

[D K]

I ran into a guy with a Monster near the shop I was at and he also said that it is a common mod to shorten the gearing on the Monsters.

Apparently its well documented on the Monster forums?


I figured for 50 bucks, Its a cheap experiment.

D

 

[Bubba Satori]

Thank you, Bubba!



Sarah

You're welcome.
The Scrambler info has been loaded.
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