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    Thanks guys!

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    Bad. ***.

    Great job Ryan, I can see these being collector's items!
    yeah... i'm collecting them one at a time...

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    I don't know of a better place to post and didnt really want to start a new thread. Walked into my local dealer and they had two shiny grom's sitting there. Immediately I had a poop eating grin and was sitting on it and messing around with everything. My main reason for getting a grom would be the gas mileage as my truck currently costs a small fortune in gas each month.My commute is 20 miles of highway each way. A pit bike/race bike wouldn't be bad either. So a few questions, would you? Can I easily get the grom up to a sustained 65mph and still be race legal?

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Adams11 View Post
    I don't know of a better place to post and didnt really want to start a new thread. Walked into my local dealer and they had two shiny grom's sitting there. Immediately I had a poop eating grin and was sitting on it and messing around with everything. My main reason for getting a grom would be the gas mileage as my truck currently costs a small fortune in gas each month.My commute is 20 miles of highway each way. A pit bike/race bike wouldn't be bad either. So a few questions, would you? Can I easily get the grom up to a sustained 65mph and still be race legal?

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    From what I have heard it takes some breaking in to get them to go that fast. I think John Black got his to commute on long before the race class was announced.

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    The main thing is the road is 75mph speed limit with people traveling anywhere from 65-85mph. If I could go 65mph then I would be ok with that. If it takes a little while to break in the motor I can take the access road to work and just leave 10 minutes early.

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    It takes a while to get to 65mph and you have hardly any acceleration once you get past 60mph. You don't want to take these on the highway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Proler View Post
    It takes a while to get to 65mph and you have hardly any acceleration once you get past 60mph. You don't want to take these on the highway.
    a small uphill can kill your speed quickly... maybe less if you are under a 100lbs... badly @ 250! (mind you, mine is not properly broken in, but coming out of turn 11 @ ECR is the fastest I get on that straight away.... I lose a little speed all the way to the start finish line.
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    I am 180lbs, I also will always have someone to draft or could just take the surface streets as it wouldn't take me much longer.

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    Who's going to partake in the most awesome class of 2014?

    Weight doesn't appear to matter on the top end, only how long it takes to get there. You won't have any drive to get out of the way at 50+, so riding a Grom on a highway is suicide. Mine goes 63-64 bone stock on a flat road with no wind. It's great for feeder roads, but not on anything with a 65mph speed limit unless you want to play Frogger.

    You will be disappointed if you plan to replace an automobile with a Grom with freeway use.
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