dduelin
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Yeah, I know about those long trips. 48 hp is more than adequate to cover more than 1000 miles in 16-18 hours.
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I think it would. 4 teeth smaller would make a huge difference. On my CBR 1100XX the stock USA rear sprocket is 45 teeth. The European sprocket is 44. Dropped my cruising rpm at 60 mph by 300 rpm. Dropping 4 teeth would drop your cruising rpm at 60 by quite a bit. Would improve mpg at 60 or 55 if you didn't crank the throttle. Would slow your acceleration way down too. Did you put that on?It's possible that with stock gearing it would pull it, I don't know. I have the DCT rear sprocket which is 4 teeth smaller than stock, so RPM is significantly lower than most NCs.
I try to avoid freeway but sometimes there aren't any other reasonable options. The NC is good enough on the freeway that I won't trailer it, the WR450 is a different story (although part of that is the maintenance - I'd rather not waste an engine that's only good for 20k miles on the freeway, but it's unpleasant too).