Hey Bash from the looks of your picture your Raptor appears to have a small oil leakage problem!!!! hahahahah. I could not resist. Seriously it looks good, yet another prince in second place to the king. : ) Dave 250R-still the KING of hi perfromance.

 

Yeah, after riding the Raptor, I took my Banshee out back and shot it! I didn't get it all cleaned up before I took the picture. Just joking.. Those were some bad pictures, but I was in a hurry. Better ones to come soon.

 

The king of high performance....because that is what you own?

 

Was that before or after you bent your a-arms on your Raptor?

 

haha, you got me...

Acutually, the way I look at it, I would spend as much on a Banshe to get it to handle as good as the Raptor as I would for aftermarket A-arms and an axle for my Raptor. Then, I would still not have electric start or reverse. On top of that, would have to spend anther $500 on pipes to make the Banshee faster than the Raptor on top end, and with just pipes, it still wouldn't have the low and mid range of the Raptor.

Basically, whatever it is that we like, it isn't perfect and in the end, to get them set up like we want, they end up costing about the same overall.

 

Yeah, I was just joking with you. I am sorry to hear about your Raptor. I hope Yamaha replaces your a-arms for free and I hope they replace them with parts that don't bend so easily. Something needs to be done because there has been more than one incident of this happening and somebody could end up getting seriously hurt. Where in KY do you live? I do a lot of riding in VA maybe we could ride sometime. I hope everything works out.

 

Howdy guys! I've been busy lately!

Ok, I did some more GPSing today. The results were a little better. I believe this is due to it being broken in better and because of the cooler drier weather that we are enjoying here now.

Here are the results of all five gears!

1st 33.2 mph 8694 rpm
2nd 51.9 mph 8542 rpm
3rd 63.6 mph 8492 rpm
4th 70.6 mph 7973 rpm
5th 75.4 mph 7352 rpm

Of course these rpm figures are calculations based on 20" tires, a 6.42 final drive ratio calculated from a 2.088 primary reduction and a 3.076 secondary reduction.

Because of the different results from my last test, I am starting to believe that the Raptor's speed is indeed dictated by power and not by some form of artificial governor. This will become much easier to verify once more power is added.

Also, my 12 tooth countersprocket goes on tomorrow. I will GPS again afterwards and report my findings here.

I haven't had the chance to put a tach to it with the wheels off the ground but this I can tell you...it was only hitting the rev limiter in 1st and 2nd. It got very close in 3rd.

 

I really don't think there is an internal "speed" limiter. I have felt what you are talking about... 4th and 5th wont rev out like 1-3, but I believe it's a power problem. I picked up a few bad habits on my banshee like pinning the throttle, and keep it pinned even when shifting (just a little tap on the clutch). Doing the same thing on the raptor, it still revs up between 4th to 5th (after maxing out 4th), where if it were goverened, it probably wouldn't gain any R's.