I accidentally did this yesterday for about 10 or 15 miles before realizing. Is it bad mechanically for my bike to have done this?
2007-11-11 13:50:32 · 12 answers · asked by COblonde 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
Unless you had the tach pegged out, you are fine. Feel more of a fool than damage done. At least your upper engine got some carbon burned out :)
My worse, bought a 72' Porsche 914. Old guy never told me it was a 5 speed. I got in and played like a normal shifting pattern and found a 4 spd with reverse. Drove it like this for almost 2 years. Then put the car in a local Porsche show. Talked to other 914 owners and was bragging how mine was a 4 spd. They were like, they didn't make 4 spd's. Then showed me that 1st was over farther. All this time I had been starting off in 2nd gear. Thinking I just had this little, slow car. Once I found 1st, I was smoking tires everywhere. I felt like a complete fool, specially since I work in the car industry and Dad has been a Snap on man all my life.
Don't feel bad, there are those that do worse lol.
2007-11-11 13:56:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have done this. For long periods, it's always better to be in the highest gear. 10 or 15 miles is inconsequential. I'm fairly certain you were nowhere near the redline. You could easily drive it 100 mph in 4 gear for 1/2 hour without affecting the engine.
The best way to tell what gear you're in is to make a mental note of rpm at certain mph (like 3500 rpm at 60 mph in 5th gear).
2007-11-11 14:00:42 · answer #2 · answered by Yellowdog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really depends what rpms you were running at. I can't see it being that bad, if you were in 2nd or 3rd gear i could see the concern but i wouldn't worry about it, there probably isn't a real big rpm difference at that speed between 4th gear and 5th. You say you drove 10 or 15 miles, your motor would have blown if you exceeded safe rpm levels.
2007-11-11 13:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny, I always have kind of the other problem. I'm so [something] that I think I'm in the low gear @ 70, and keep retrying for a higher gear than 5th.
2007-11-11 14:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn what your engine sounds like when it is time to shift and before long you will not even have to look at the tack or speed to know when to shift, another advantage of knowning your engine sounds is when there is a problem a lot of times you will be able to hear it when it is minor.
2007-11-11 15:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had the same problem as the other answer. Always trying to shift one more time when already in the top gear. :-)
Should hurt it though. You would have noticed if you had the engine really wound up.
2007-11-11 14:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Cee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's not bad, you just won't have as good of gas mileage. If I was in 4th gear doing 60, my engine would bog down. that's 3rd gear for me.
2007-11-12 00:58:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's where I make my 4 - 5 shift when running a little quicker than slow cruise. (6 speed)
You didn't hurt your bike, but you may want to avoid this.
If you were really running it past the limit, it would have told you. (many ways, rev limit is just one).
2007-11-12 11:16:27 · answer #8 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don`t worry you didn`t hurt a thing. You were probably no where near the rev limit .
2007-11-11 15:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by Jim K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
damage could have been done. if you were maxing out your rpms some engine damage could have possibly been done. some clues to your motor being damaged is if it felt like it was dragging or back-firing on you.
2007-11-11 19:52:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋