It's not going to handle hills much better and you won't raise it's top speed.
Interesting - could you expand on that?
Unless I'm totally mis-understanding something... the advantage of a shift kit is a variable gear ratio, so that you climb hills better and not redline on flat streets. From reading what others have posted and visually looking at my Q-matic, it evidently functions like the other transmissions out there except with far superior build quality and the clutch is located in the rear. This means that it still has a static gear ratio, and a bigger/smaller rear sprocket would be the only way of changing that... right?
My goal here is to be able to make it up the two decent-sized hills between home and work (and any other reasonable hills I might encounter), and then not strain my engine when I'm cruising along on flat terrain. I don't need to go over 30mph, but I'd like to get to that speed without my engine sounding like it's going to blow up.
My previous setup (Hoot transmission with jackshaft kit) could do that fairly well - it had some issues early on with the carb and a replacement carb fixed things right up, but I had all of a day and a half to explore that new carb's limits before the Hoot bit the big one. Still, I could putt up hills no problem and when cruising the engine was nowhere near redline.
Am I missing something obvious here? Say I had a hypothetical perfect bike frame that fit the engine, jackshaft kit, and Q-matic perfectly - does the QM work well to the point where the added gear ratios just wouldn't help much? Should I just go with a 60t or 62t sprocket in the back, and be mindful of the RPM on flats?
