Fe450e gearing for woods riding

what sprockets are you guys running for woods and the tighter off road stuff? staying with the stockers? I'm not sure of my countersprocket size, 14? but my rear is 48.

I find the bike to be very well mannered in the woods, but was surprized to find myself on some pavement last weekend to try to higher gears, doing 55+easy maybe 60 in 5th , shifting into 6th and lugging it so bad I had to down shift back into 5th, WOW thats a wide ratio tranny. With the stock gearing I'll never see 6th gear on this bike. My ride areas are 0-45 mph and that's it. I have the TE-510 for the desert

with my 06 Fe450e as is I find 1st gear is generally fine but short compared to second. If I gear it down I will be shifting sooner out of 1st but may find second to be a dream gear for my ride areas and find 1st is even better at tractoring up tight rocky nasty stuff.

My main interest is to make the bike tractor up over and up the tough stuff...but not loose the magic of the Husaberg gearing what I mean is I trust Husaberg to know better then me. That's why I'm asking this question....should I just leave the stock gearing alone or? ...I have the rear tire off and am thinking of a putting a 50 tooth rear sprocket on, that's not much of a change from a 48 to a 50, might be just enough to give the bike that little bit more tractor edge in the tight n nasty stuff,

what do you think? what gears do you guys run in the woods?

yes woods is 80% what I ride. I bought the bike for single track. I had the bike up some short length stuff like this Sunday and it seemed to do fine.

rocky climb up

13 tooth up front is stock? ok 13/48 that sounds good.

just wondered if 13/50 might be a tad better. That would be getting out there I ran 13/47 on my DRZ........I know a guy who had 13/49 on that drz, that was too much. on that bike for my tastes....but my sense with the husaberg tranny that two more teeth on back would be a small adjustment and might be a nice set up to try.

anyone else?

Dan confirmed my stock gearing is 14/48. so I went to 14/50. I will report in on the new gearing ratios, which I know you all look forward to..

rode it around my block a few times. 1st, 2nd and 3rd now more closer.....imagine that. Very Nice I like it. It will do me well in hill climbs and nasty stuff.

funny thing those two teeth bigger sprocket meant the wheel had to move forward to get the chain adjusted right, but I couldn't get the chain adjuster bolts to move enough forward. they were all the way in aand chain was too tight, so I had to reverse the chain adjuster blocks then wind the chain adjuster bolts way out to get the chain right..

Dan gave me a new tire too. Still I think that would have rubbed, but my muffler is now shimmed out . so all is good for 3 days of riding this weekend.

yeah I can see that, the bike was quick stock 14/48. the ratio change for only two teeth in the back is not much, less then dropping one in front. well I'll see this weekend if just as the speed hit used to come last time now I may find I have to shift and never get that nice speed rush.....

I think that is what your are saying and why the bike is 14/48 stock. It's made for guys who race and go fast, not for C riders who crawl along. My friends said I was faster on this bike then ever before....maybe it was not only the lightness of the bike that let me feel like it was a speed mountain bike in the corners, all maybe also the stock gearing had something to do with it because that tall second definitely was making me go Faster then normal to keep me from down shifting.

Taffy said:

a-ha! and we are doing this for woods riding (aren't we now! :twisted: ) and we haven't forgotten have we!!!

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2900+ posts like gum, stuck to UHE boots I see. Isn't time for your Tea? do you get much riding done on that fog bound rain rock island you live on? Have they got any trees left there? I thought the Roman's cut em all down, or was that king henry?

my comments are done in laughter., only kidding as they say.

Taffy said:

bob

if you are serious about woods riding then you'll forget what gearing 6th pulls. the bike is suited to 13/48 in woods. i pull 14/51 so as not to wear out the swingarm rubber protector. you might have 50cc more than me but you are also bigger than me (200lbs).

hope this helps

regards

Taffy

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Taffy thank you for your detailed and helpful posts. This first post of yours is where I got confused and I felt we got off track, because my first question was what is my stock CS gear size? I know it's lame but it was late and I didn't want to remove the plastic CS guard to count teeth and no web sites said it...plus I don't have my owners manual yet, but turns out it dont say it

Your reponse above that 13/48 is good for woods and the tone of it led me to believe you think the stock CS on my bike is 13? so you were later asking me why was I changing it if you say its good for woods? a fair question, but later in the thread you'll see I found out from Dan MotoXotica checked some source online that my 06 fe450e stock CS is 14. So I posted that given that my stock gearing is 14/48, I felt a Small adjustment down would be interesting to try for woods which is 80% my riding....so I went with the smallest down adjustment of gearing by increasing the rear sporcket to a 50.

here is the ratios from sandskippers chart

14/48 3.43

14/50 3.57

14/51 3.64

13/48 3.69

13/49 3.77

13/50 3.85

So Taffy, my man, my new ratio of 14/50, 3.57 is still less (taller) then your recommended 13/48, 3.69 ratio ...so I got frustrated when you commented "Remember this is for woods" because my final ratio is still less then what you first said is good for woods...see ?? so I kinda laughed it off and gave you that crack about the romans and the trees an all :lol: which I do sometimes......just busting chops with you, it's the New Yorker in me. I lived there for 5 years once.

OK I am at 14/50 and loving life why? because I have a Husaberg!

I hope this clears it up.