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Please don't take my curiosity as any kind of criticism, happy, I am not meaning it in that way at all. I'm just a naturally curious type when it comes to this stuff!
I was just thinking that sometimes "almost" can be very subjective to different people, and different engine characteristics. Some people think a motor's redline is where the painted red section begins on the dial, others thinks it's where the red section ends, some just kind of guess, others keep the motor spinning until actual limiter is found.
I've read tests where the magazine writers say the limiter kicks in just above 8,000 rpm.
So I can totally understand if you were anywhere shy of 8k on this gauge, you might assume you were closer to the actual limit than you were. But say, if the ecu doesn't really shift the bike in S2 mode until just after 8k, dependent on engine load, how aggressive the throttle input is, etc., well then, I would think it would hang out at 7,900 rpm all day long, because it hadn't reached the shift point yet, under the prevailing specific parameters needed to do so.
I was just thinking that sometimes "almost" can be very subjective to different people, and different engine characteristics. Some people think a motor's redline is where the painted red section begins on the dial, others thinks it's where the red section ends, some just kind of guess, others keep the motor spinning until actual limiter is found.
I've read tests where the magazine writers say the limiter kicks in just above 8,000 rpm.
So I can totally understand if you were anywhere shy of 8k on this gauge, you might assume you were closer to the actual limit than you were. But say, if the ecu doesn't really shift the bike in S2 mode until just after 8k, dependent on engine load, how aggressive the throttle input is, etc., well then, I would think it would hang out at 7,900 rpm all day long, because it hadn't reached the shift point yet, under the prevailing specific parameters needed to do so.