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Originally Posted by Heritage07

Have 1550 mile so far and everything is working great. The only thing I found weird from day one was 5th gear. Seems like the bikes chugs in it below 50. The bike wants to hit 6th above 60 and cruses at 85 smooth as butter.

Enjoy your chopper, the pics are awesome.

I noticed the same thing. If your calmly upshifting without pushing it, it will run just happy as hell if your in 3rd in the 30's 4th for 40's that 5th in the 50's.
But beware of higher throttle settings below those speeds and especially 6th below 55 or so. It doesn't like that kind of crap AT ALL, and will let you know it fast.
First time I did it in 6th at about 45mph it scared the crap out of me, it sounded and felt like it was trying to come out of its mountings.
I have yet to try it for any length of time over about 60 or 70 yet, it only turned over 600mi today. I'm trying to be "nice" to it. But as soon as its broken in and has its 1000mile checkup I plan on taking it out on the NYS Throughway to see how we both get along at 70+ speeds for distance.
If everything goes as well as it has so far I'm sure its going to be a much nicer bike than my old Yamaha was. With that old POS I couldn't go more than 20 miles before I wanted to get off, shove it in the nearest ditch, and walk home without it.
That's not completely fair, the old bike was just that, an old bike. To ride it I had to lean over where it hurt my back, the mid controls made my legs cramp up, and the small throttle grip along with the buzzing of the 700cc 4 banger engine made my hands go numb and my arms cramp up. But the brakes worked reasonably well, it handled fairly nicely, and the seat was nice.
That the Custom does all that at least as well or better, except really tight cornering, is amazing to me. Considering its nearly two feet longer and out weighs the Yamaha by over 200lbs. I still have no trouble at all dodging around pot holes and junk in the road at any speed. Sure the engine is over twice as big, but I think the HP ratings are actually nearly the same. Just one does it at 3000 rpm and the other does it at nearly 9000 rpm.
Overall I'm VERY pleased with it.

One funny thing happened the other day. I was out riding with a friend who has an older 80's Yamaha 650 twin. We were on a deserted section of road and I decided to see how fast I could "S" turn between the painted strips in the road. I got it up to nearly 55 before I decided that the pegs were getting a little too close to the ground for my taste. When he caught up to me at the next light he said that he was shocked I could do that at a speed he couldn't keep up with. Now I'm not that good a rider, and this is a new bike that's heavier and longer than anything I have ever ridden before so it isn't a case of a better rider. Just a really solid chassis and tight suspension working the way its supposed to.