This is about switching the front drive pulley of an vxs1300 from the stock 30-tooth to a 31-tooth, which is typically used in the Styrker. This swap will lower your RPM's for all gears, essentially making 5th gear into a highway gear, since this bike doesn't have a 6th gear. It won't have as much snap off the line anymore, but with a little more throttle these high torque bikes handle it well.
Thanks for watching, and good luck.
Ok, here's the verdict...
Overall it feels like it "smoothed" out the gears more. It felt less jerky, and 1st doesn't seem as shit-awful low, but still pretty low. It helped with the speedo a couple mph (nothing impressive), and the bike did feel more at ease doing higher speeds. At one point I shifted out of 4th at 75mph (I had it canned), not because it needed it, I just wanted to hit 5th before I had to slow it down. She wanted to go for more, it was a good feeling, like it was actually able to stretch out for once. In truth I'm not a 0-60 kinda guy, but I do have a Cobra pipe, PowrFlo intake, and Fi2000R O2. So I do have a little more power than a stock bike, and she sounds great. Really I almost feel like the 30T vs the 31T pulley on the 1300 and Stryker was an engineering mess-up between two differently styled bikes, almost like the thought process was backwards on this front pulley.
Short answer: I like it and would definitely recommend it for my type of setup.
26 ноя 2020
