A couple of hundred RPM before something lets go.... :!:
I was always led to believe that the redline max speed you want to rev it at was very much a function of how long you want it to survive.
Do the CDIs have a rev limiter in them? On a competition bike I'd imagine this would be such that it would survive only a few races at full song. On something like an XR it would want to be several thousand km.
I'd recommend a cheap digital rev counter - even a temporary install of a Trailtech Vapor or similar. These days digital meters are cheaper than mechanical ones. Is there a particular reason you'd need a needle on it?
well yeh! try screaming the balls off it just as you hit a jump or bounce a bunch of whoops! road racers use them but we don't on the dirt/ is that because we endo them every 10 miles? methinkso!
as it says in the doc (who wrote that!) 'feet per minute'. i'm going to ask a man who might be able to tell me....
I'm sure popup has had a tacho on his FE650 after his second rebuild ( after 10 hours !!) & said he rung the ***'$ off it to 7000rpm before he let the throttle go. No bad considering it probably only took 1/2 a second to get there ! Pm him for the true figure.