stan0matic
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My humble opinion in order of ?s2b said:Do these figures mean it is most fuel efficient at 7,000 rpm?
Top speed at 8,000 rpm?
Climb hills at 6,500 rpm?
How about efficient acceleration, what rpm do the figures suggest for an up shift?
Where should the red line be painted on a tacho?
All this is obviously for the stock bikes. I don't know much about this stuff.
Do different tuning enhancements shift different parts of the power and torque curves? Or does the curve stay the same shape, and all the numbers go up?
For example how would a decatted, egr removed, oo racing molkt carb bike's figures look compared to these standard ones?
Yep.
Yep.
Yep (as you start dropping below peak tork, you'll start thinking about a lower gear).
Depends what you mean by efficient. By the looks of the graph tork is still very meaty at 6K. So if you change up at 7K, you ought to hit the next gear at about 6K? I'm not sure, Mikeyw64's gear ratio chart ties in wonderfully with this info, by the way.
Paint it wherever you like. Where's it stop sounding good, or being useful, how often you wanna tear it down? If you stick to the factory CDI, I'd paint it just before it kicks in. By the looks of your ?s you could also paint a greenline at 7K. That's your magic number. It's where peak tork and peak power come together very nicely. Which is also why best fuel consumption is at 7K. It sounds like you know plenty, but for further reading, have you gotten into Phil Irving or David Vizard? Great armchair stuff.
If you do mods such as the ones you mention the curves ought to go up together.