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Well a couple of weeks ago I found a long slightly uphill straight out in the country (north of Kyogle) and wound her out. She got to 175kph very rapidly and more slowly on up to 180kph (112mph) on the speedo - the tach read 6000 revs at 180kph. She was only increasing speed very slowly from there so I didn't push her further. I had a full load of luggage on BTW. Later the GPS showed it to be 165kph (102mph)

She felt stable and controlled at that speed. I think I would have got a fair bit more had I not been carrying a lot of extra weight (basically an extra 40 kilos) - because I still had 1900 revs of headroom.