[1997 Royal Star Classic Accelerating Issue]

Yes, I wanted to drive it like a twin, as it sounds cool. Now that Im use to it, I love it.... need to drive it with more rev,and all is good...thank you.....

 

 

 

 

QUOTE=M61A1MECH;1063382]Glad I could help, now the opposite is also true, if you are in 4th or 5th and dive in hot into a corner and expecting engine braking to come into play, it will not be there, again start looking for 3rd and then power out of the turn.

 

Thee V-4 is a very different animals, takes a while to get used to them.

 

Ride safe and often

[1997 Royal Star Classic Accelerating Issue]

I came down to the conclusion that you are exactly right. I rode in third and it picks up impressively. I was Twisting the throttle in 4th and 5 th expecting a lot, at40 mph and up slightly. I have the 4 individual mufflers and I think that gives it a different pulse type feel in a high gear at lower speed that I should be when twisting the throttle aggressively. Now that I understand more about the royal star. I’m convinced it’s running correct.

 

 

Thanks you for giving me the idea of using higher gears correctly and not bogging it with heavy throttle at to low of speeds, unless I gain speed gradually.

 

Scott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So we need to clarify a couple of things here.

 

The Royal Stars all have 2 overdrive gears, 4th and 5th, neither is meant for any sort of hard or aggressive accelerating.

 

If you are in say 5th gear tooling along at 55 MPH and want to pull out an pass someone and open up the throttle, it is going to bog down, shutter and lug the motor, all because the gearing is to high, if you gently roll on the throttle it will gently gain speed and RPM. The same will happen in 4th but to a much lesser degree.

 

If you have not done this, take the bike out and instead of clicking through all the gears and motoring down the road in 5th, stop in 3rd gear and get a feel for the performance the bike is capable of, then find a nice wide open stretch of road and while still in 3rd open the throttle up as fast as you like, if all is good with the carbs, air filter , plugs and other systems that will affect the performance, it should accelerate at a very nice rate. If that does not happen, then start looking at performance issues, noted in the previous post. If you are going along in 5th at 65 MPH and need to pass some one, click it down 2 gears and open her up, my 98 Tour Classic would do 85 in 3rd gear before hitting the rev limiter.

 

Keep us posted on what you find.

[1997 Royal Star Classic Accelerating Issue]

Hi, my 1997 Royal Star Classic idles and runs great for the most part, however, when I am accelerating to a higher speed above 40 or so it feels like it is not hitting on all 4 cylinders, it is sluggish. It has the same feeling accelerating at any high speed. You would never know driving at any steady speed just when I accelerate. I would appreciate any input as to what the issue may be.