Stan, it is nice to just open the throttle and enjoy it, just like everyone else. The chassis and suspension part of this street toadster build is done.
Ol Scrambler, this bike is like the Cub. It is teaching me a lot at safe speeds. There is more go in it. Plans are to change the cam this year, install the shim under bucket kit, and rebuild the front fairing. In 2013 the intake, exhaust, and spark advance curve will be tuned. In 2014 I will leave the bike alone, run naked at Elmo, and save money to race in Australia. I will go there in 2015. That will finish the build. After that, who knows?
DadSolds, you are right. I will need to do a dyno run. Last year I had a 38-tooth rear sprocket cut. That will be the one I use, hopefully.
This year's rpm's are plotted on the 2011 horsepower and mixture curve. The sea-level horsepower is 68.5. My standard correction factor is 0.86 for Bonneville. 68.5 x 0.86 = 59 hp. My runs are done with 59 hp, as an estimate.
The curves show that the engine was spinning well beyond the torque peak and just over the horsepower peak. Normally this would indicate the gear ratio was too high, numerically. This was my lucky day and I was running into headwinds on both runs. The down was in a 10 mph wind from the NNW. This was predominately a side wind with some headwind. The back was directly into a 7 mph headwind. The slightly high gear ratio I had might have been to my advantage in these conditions.