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Originally Posted by Professor
My 2011 Gas Yamaha runs 22 mph on a flat surface. I just played with the governor until I got it to that point. It runs 18-20 uphill and faster downhill, but downhill I just back off the gas and feather the brake if needed. I tried it for awhile at 20 mph on a flat surface but found I had trouble keeping up with the neighborhood golf group when we headed out together to our course. 22 seems to work well and after 15 years in The Villages I have never gotten a ticket for excess speed.
One other item of note: You can have 5 automobiles, for example, and if you check the speedometer against GPS at a steady speed, it is rare that you will get the exact same reading on the speedometer. I owned 5 at one point so I checked this out, and it was true. The difference was only +/- 2 mph, but that tells me that the speedometer reading is not always reliable.
Car Guy
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That’s exactly how my 2014 Yamaha is set. Both your 2011, and my 2014, are not Drive2 Quiet Techs, so they can’t be compared to Yamaha QT’s from 2017 to present as far as hill climbing ability. The QT’s have a less powerful engine as part of the redesign to make them run quieter. Even with a stiffer secondary spring and heavy duty drive belt modification, our 2022 QT still lags going over the golf cart bridge into the historic section more than the 2014.