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Wow i'm glad i was looking through here and i found this post. I've been stressing out for ages trying to figure out what is wrong with my engine, thinking it was getting some detonation or something. I was about to start on checking the fuel delivery cause i already got it tuned and that didn't ...

Yeah i'm not really fussed about fuel, more worried about engine health. I've been having a lot of trouble with missfires so the bike is going into the shop asap because something must be wrong. I think it's possibly a bad tune but i'm not sure. Someone suggested my timing belt may be slipping as ...

I owned a high performace jap car before this so it seems like incredible fuel economy to me! Yeah i think sitting on about 3000rpm is comfortable for me.

I chose a storm because i love the sound of the V-twin and because it looks great and rides great. The thought of cruising at 5-6krpm is crazy, my bike sounds like it's pinging at 3 thou. the areas i'm talking about riding is just around the streets to and from work and such, doing normally 60km/h ...

Hey guys and gals,

When you're cruising on your firestorm what is a good rpm to be sitting on? I have an 03 firestorm and i'm finding it misfires at around 2500rpm but not around 3000rpm. But is 3000rpm too high to cruise on?? Never owned motorbike before so i'm still feeling the water.