Tour Bike Governed
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I suspect our bikes for many years have simply been 'governed' by the rev limiter. Bearing in mind that Harleys haven't a snowball in hell's chance of maxing out in the high gears I don't expect there is any need to govern them to a set max road speed. My car is governed to 155mph, but the Harleys.......
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Road Warrior
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I had heard that they were governed at 110mph. I know the "download" that you can get bumps the rev limiter up. The stage one tuners bypass the limiter I believe also.
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PS- I was exploring all the parameters I could change/control through my PowerVision tuner the other day. It let's you adjust everything, including many things I've never heard of, but I did not see any speed limiting parameters... other than rev limiter of course...
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Cruiser
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The Cruise Control is limited to 90 mph, other than that, it's the rev limiter that dictates the top speed. With a SEPRT download that can be changed, but, to what purpose? These are high torque, low revving motors.
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Stage one does increase the tolerance of the rev limiter, but I have to agree, they really don't gain that much and were never designed to operate at those higher rpm. If I remember correctly it changed the limit to 6 or 6200. I still have mine set at factory. Guess I am not in that big of a hurry.
