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Stock sprockets are 15/37; most of us run 15/39. Some even go 14/39. Even at 15/39, I never use sixth gear at legal freeway speeds - it really doesn't like sixth until about 80 mph.
Stock bikes won't even pull the 15/39 to redline in sixth gear, much less the stock 15/37, so most owners kind of wonder what the point of such tall gearing might have been. Maybe to quiet them enough to pass some sort of noise regulations at a given speed in top gear.
Oh well, too bad it didn't work out on this one, Mike. $4500 should bring an absolutely "no issues" bike, not one where the guy says he doesn't have any starting fluid handy. Like you say, though, plenty of fish in this sea.
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Jeff
'72 911T 3.0 MFI
'93 Ducati 900 Super Sport
"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
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