Was wondering if anyone could help with a gearing question... I recently put larger tires on my banshee and now have a bottom end problem worse than it has been. Was wanting to know if droping teeth on the sprocket would help this problem? I have went up two sizes on my front and rear tires (23 in front 22 in rear). How many teeth should I drop to return to the stock gearing? Thanks for any help.

 

My advice would be to drop one tooth (from stock gearing) on the front. Try that. If it's still not enough, Then raise one tooth on the rear sprocket. That should do it.

If you really want to jump out of the hole, Go two up on the rear, And one down in the front.

And adjust chain.

 

The stock bearing on the baanshee is too high in my opinion. I dropped to a 13 tooth countershaft recently based on some recommendations from other banshee owners. Your 22 inch rears added 10% more speed in every gear. If you're running stock gearing (14 tooth countershaft) then ideally you'd like to drop that by 10%, or 1.4 teeth (not possible). So, you can drop to a 13 tooth countershaft and get closer to stock. In order to get even closer, you'll need to change the rear sprocket to one with more teeth. Stock is 36 tooth, and you're still looking for another .4%, and you'd get close to that with a 37 tooth rear. Personally I'd go to a 38 tooth rear. It'll add more bottom end than you had stock.