New Honda Grom 125 Top Speed Runs on the Highway | How fast is the New Grom / MSX125?
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- How fast is the new 2022 - 2023 Honda Grom with its new engine changes? What's the new 2022 Grom top speed? Hopefully this video helps with some of those questions... Today is a quick video where we take the 2022 Honda Grom / MSX 125 and see just how fast it is with different top speed runs in multiple situations to see what she can do while still stock. Looking for 2022 Grom modification ideas? Check out some of other videos on the channel as we'll be modifying this bike and I'm bringing you guys along for the ride.
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Now that's what I'm talking about!! Great job Kevin!!
Thanks bud, really appreciate the support!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. The bike looks smooth and stable even at those speeds.
Thanks as always for the support Steve, much appreciated!
Oh yeah, she's super smooth for a single and surprisingly steady at those speeds considering it's on 12" wheels. Now, would I want to do 100+ on it? Probably not lol but 70-80 I think is fine. I am curious to see what it feels like once you start to get closer to triple digits... Maybe we'll find out once the engine mods start lol!
Well done as usual! You do a great job of addressing the common questions that the typical viewer would have as the video progresses. My favorite is the Honda ATV and UTV content. Thanks!
Thanks as always for the kind words and support bud! Always nice when people appreciate what you're trying to do so thank you ;)
We've got some new 2022 offroad news coming up very soon by the way... If Honda will hurry up and get some units out there lol I'd have some new ATV / UTV content but they are hard to come by lately because of the whole rona mess. Heck, inventory as a whole is hard to come by these days!
Very comprehensive demo. Thank you.
Thank you, appreciate the support ;)
Beautiful clean 5th gen Civic @1:20! Thanks for the video, too. The bike is more versatile than most give it credit for.
lol good eye! I've built many EG hatches over the years but I still want to build one of those sedans, it's crazy how light they are but maaaan oh man have their values been increasing lately if it's not a complete basket case.
No problem at all man, thank you for saying "thanks". Oh yeah, it's definitely a lot more versatile than most give it credit for. Is it for everyone? Of course not but it's pretty dang capable for a little 125 and a blast to boot which makes it a win win in my book.
@@HondaProKevin I used to have a '92 Civic VX hatchback. 50+ mpg. I loved it but rust was starting to take it in the rear quarters. Sadly sold it at a loss a few years ago. I do love my small Hondas though. I've been tempted by imported Honda Kei trucks like the Acty as of late. 4wd with locking rear differential on the "Attack" trim! But sadly, many states are giving hassles over registering them now...
Excellent video thank you
Thank you, appreciate the support!
Awesome video, cant wait to see how much the exhaust helps.
Thanks buddy, as always I appreciate the support ;)
Same here. Very curious to see how it helps in the real world. After some drag racing tomorrow it's getting thrown on and then we'll see what's up!
Me too!
Man, I'm just laughing at the drafting. It's very cool to see it work, ha-ha! I'm tempted by this little motorcycle. Seems like a lot of fun and to have as a company to a bigger motorcycle.
Jesus christ is calling lol you got that right my friend good stuff....
Another fun video! What gloves are you rocking there?
Thanks Myke, appreciate the support! They are Cortech Sonic-Flo gloves. I'm super picky on gloves that have a nice feel and aren't too restrictive, I like to think I don't have any on if that makes sense and these are the first pair I've been able to find in years that fit well enough to replace my old Olympia gloves for the street. The Olympia's weren't pretty and aren't the normal "sportbike" look that a lot of people went for but man were they comfy while still offering protection.
I have a 2020 grom, and the fastest I've ever gotten it to is 65 mph kissing the redline under 9000 rpm, in a flat surface and with little wind, but I'm really wandering is how can you carry speed thru corners with this.
Man, I need to find a crashed one and put that 5 speed on the CT!!! Good stuff man!
lol there we go! But... with used and wrecked Grom prices the way they're going now, you could buy a new one cheaper than a crashed one lol! Have you seen some of the craziness out there?
@@HondaProKevin dude it's crazy! I've been looking at uses t dubs, you can't buy one for less than new price and you sure can't find a new one! Crazy!
Just remember the previous generation and older Groms don't have the five speeds.. four speed trans only
Kevin, not to put personal data out there but what is your weight? I'm 230lbs and would be interested to see if I would get close to your speeds.
I have a question ⁉️ how much do you weight? Thanks for posting this!!!
I'm about 170lbs. Thank you for watching and commenting ;)
If these do 75 on the limiter I gotta get one
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lol yeah buddy, gotta get that drafting in for a few more mph!
Looks to have about 5-8 mph on my 19 monkey. May have to add a trail 150 to my collection next
You've got the most comfortable seat out of them all though so you win lol!
That'll be my next mini bike. I love the Monkey and will add one to the stable eventually but the CT is too cool and opens up some other doors for playing around.
Is there gonna be a trail 150?
Makes me happy I chose my '21 Monkey. The oil filter and 5th gear are nice on the '22s, but with some modest mods, I can get mine to 75. I think that's as fast as I really want to be going on these little bikes.
50 mph. Is plenty fast enough on a mini BIKE !
What mods did you do?
@@derkchurk5879 Full Akrapovic header and exhaust, TB Cam, DNA Stage 3 intake, High Compression Piston, ECU matched to all the mods and RPM increased to 9750 redline, 14 tooth front sprocket, Euro/JDM spec turn signals and tail light, 12 Oclock labs speedo healer, Michelin power pures front and back. I could hit about 78 indicated on GPS on flats, but could only average about 70ish on the hills. Fastest I hit was 85 going downhill. Going over 60 on the stock tires is pretty sketchy. I went 120 front 140 rear for the added rubber and stability. God I miss that bike - sold it and bought a KLX300SM, then traded that for a DRZ400SM like 6 weeks later =P The DRZ is better, but there's nothing better than riding a slow bike fast.
@@rrazote2279 sweet dude, thanks for the reply
Ehh iv done 85mph
That's dangerous doing only 62 on 153....
Lol spot on! It's wild how hit or miss it is out there no matter the day or time, either everyone is crawling at 50 or doing 80. I miss the lock down days, when we didn't have so many people just cruising in the left lane holding up traffic lol.
73 has been my max speed aswell great video
Heck yeah! Thanks man, appreciate the support.
I hit 73 as well with less than 100 miles bone stock.
Intake/exhaust 81
Ecu flash intake exhaust 91
Instead of a Grom I purchased a CB500X that is weighs double of the Grom with my crash bars, skid plates, etc.. On the rare occasions that I ride on an interstate, with crosswinds of 20 gusting to 30 mph, I duck and cover by drafting behind semi trucks. The difference is that I can pace them, the Grom can't. Great bike for highways but not the interstates.
Watching this and realizing your going through fort wort lol 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Lol not quite bud, out in Chattanooga, TN ;)
4.6k views and only 97 likes? Smh, should be more likes. Anyways, thank you for this video 💪
Lol thanks man! Appreciate the kind words and support, I really do...
Just picked up the same 2022. I effing love it! I’ve been riding dirt bikes and atvs my whole life and I’ve never actually known the RPMs I was riding at. Now that I’ve got this and the tach on it I feel like I’m regularly at well over 5000 rpm cruising around town at +45mph… is that too high to be running continuously? I would never dream of running around town like that in my 06’ GTO but obviously they are massively different beasts. I’ve got a 31 tooth rear sprocket coming in the mail to bring up the top end speed a little as I feel like I’ve got all the acceleration I could possibly need for the roads I’ll be riding on. I also like going with the rear sprocket reduction over the front increase because it reduces the overall moment of inertia of the drive train and rotating mass. Probably not by much but I’m sure it’ll have a small effect.
But yeah I’m trying to make my bike last and I don’t want to be over doing it with the RPMs. Just curious what the general consensus is about what a reasonable max cruising RPM is before prolonged wear is heavily increased. Thanks for the video!
Heck yeah, congrats on your new Grom Charlie!
You're fine, these engines are used to running wide open with no issues. Now if you start to modify it heavily then you're going to have to start paying attention to some more aspects but in stock form, don't worry about it one bit and wring her neck for all she's got lol! And thankfully you can do that and not worry about going to jail unlike in your GTO lol! In all seriousness though, I've been involved within the Grom community since day one as I was one of the first owners here in the states in 2013. Pair that up working at a Honda dealer for the last 15 years and seeing what comes and goes because of issues etc, the only thing you have to worry about is once you start modifying it. Stock, you'll be able to cruise at those higher RPMs for years and tens of thousands of miles. If you start to tinker with it though and don't do your homework, running lean at those high RPMs can and will do damage because of all the heat and detonation etc.
The 31 tooth rear sprocket may be a little too large of a drop but I'm super curious on what your outcome will be while the engine is still stock. Nobody else has played around with that drastic of a change with the 2022's different gearing setup over the old Groms just to see how she handles it.
@@HondaProKevin well alright then! Lol thanks for easing some of my concerns. And that’s exactly why I bought a Honda! I’ve only ever owned Yamaha or Honda dirt bike/atvs. Honda’s reputation is exactly why I ponied up instead of going with some Chinese clone.
I do have a zoom exhaust pipe and a chimera intake coming, along with the PCV and an auto tuner o2 sensor so that those lean conditions are supposedly accounted for. Are there any other suggestions you might have for me to watch out for while I navigate these waters? I know they make add on oil cooling radiators and what not but to be perfectly honest even when I do get the add ons put in I’ll still probably ride it super conservative. I’m 210lbs and about 390 miles in now and clocking 140.0 miles per gallon so far!
As for the gearing. I have since realize that the new 2022s have stock 15t up front and 38t in the back 😅 coming in at 2.533 ratio stock (I believe the previous years scorn stock 15t:34t) so I wayyy over compensated with the 31t on the back but that being said I acquired a 14t and 13t for up front to go with the 31t to bring it in to around 13t:31t at ~2.385 or 14t:31t at ~2.214. I’m definitely going to have to probably drastically change the length of the Cha in to make it work but all in all that’s even less rotational mass all around to go with small 13 or 14 up front, AND smaller radius 31 in the back with a shortened chain. 🤷♂️ at worst I’m over torquing the lever arm on the smaller rear sprocket radius but I’m still Probably no where near becoming an issue with it. I have a feeling with these new gears 2.38 it will be just enough upper end speed that the loss of torque will be well within acceptable ranges for the straight Stock engine setup because it’s not too much more. Because I figure if just went and jumped up to 17t in the front it’ll still get me 2.2352. But I’ve seen a bunch of people say they’ve had issues with having to grind away the sprocket cover just to get the 17t sprocket and chain to fit in. And ultimately it would increase the chain length and increase moment of inertia/rotational mass. But so even going with the 13t:31t will give me 2.385 drastically reducing chain and sprocket rotational mass/moment of inertia. And then when I put the engine upgrades on I should have no issues with the 14t:31t @ ~2.214and heck maybe even could jump back up to a 15t:31t @~2.07. Or even go a bit milder to 15t:32t @~2.13. I’m going to need a lot of chain to regularly test this though and not wear unevenly on the sprockets 😂😅
It may be a bit more money to spend considering a single front sprocket is $10 but fingers crossed that early acceleration can be maintained with the lower gear ratio because of the loss of rotational mass during each acceleration 🤷♂️😂 all I know is it’ll be worth the experiment to test these out. Any suggestions on lighter rims/tires that don’t cost as much as the bike? that’s the next place to make up time on acceleration without changing engine performance (besides me just hitting the gym and losing 10 lbs of body weight 😂😂😂)
@@HondaProKevin give me a year to find a used grom for cheap and I’ll be swapping out the combustion piston head with the stainless steel combustion Tesla Turbines that I make and do R&D on. My latest turbine dyno test with only room temp compressed air is pulling 3.2hp and 5.02ft-lbs of torque to the shaft at 4,500rpm so as soon as I start adding combustion temps to that it should soar far higher than the groms original power output. And the whole thing should be a bolt on retrofit kit that just chains to to the transmission main shaft 🤷♂️ we’ll see though. All I know is I want to be the first person with a Tesla Turbine powered grom 😂😂😂
@@HondaProKevin oh yeah, I’ve been trying to find out how to do it on the 2022 but how would I go about fixing the speedometer for the changed gear ratios so I get the appropriate speed displayed? I ask because I was under the impression the tach sensor was in the transmission on the new ones..? Is that correct or is it done on the wheel and I don’t need to worry about it?
@@HondaProKevin ok just got back from my first ride with the 14 tooth front and 31 rear on the 2022 grom I have and holy moly….. this is a whole new bike! **From feeling alone** I’m not getting any noticeable acceleration loss from the reduction in gear ratio from the large rotational mass weight reduction with the much much smaller back sprocket. Not to mention the stock rear sprocket has like this giant metal washer around it. Presumably to help protect the frame if the chain ever jumps off but it’s a A LOT of additional rotational mass at the periphery of the stock sprocket really upping its moment of inertia, so very bad for acceleration. And the chain is 4 links shorter while keeping the chain tensioner dang near the center with plenty of room to keep it tight over time as the chain stretches. I pulled out a GPS speedometer on my phone and it’s showing that 35mph on the dash is actually 39-40mph real speed. First gear feels like it goes for days longer than before, 2nd gear is like butter and 25-30mph residential/city cruising is 4000-5000rpm in 3rd gear…. 45-50mph @ ~4500-5000rpm and I’m literally only at half throttle cruising too……🤤🤤🤤 just butter smooth. The motor RPMs at that speed just seems to have a really nice hum note to it that wasn’t even remotely the same before when it was screaming at 6000rpms lol and that’s still stock exhaust too.
Any suggestions for fixing the dash speedometer to be accurate again?
Just WOW though I’m BEYOND excited to get this chimera intake and zoom exhaust on with the PCV + auto tuner because I have no doubt this bike could handle the further drop to the 15t/31t with that little bit extra umph. Maybe I’ll even make a tesla turbine turbocharger to go inline with the new exhaust and intake 😂😂😂 This is going to be sooo beautiful!!!
Honda trail CT 150 HUNTER coming out in 2022 year ? Rumors or FACT ?
This was all filmed in Mexico by the way... lol! If you guys found this helpful, please hit that "like" button on the video as it really helps my channel with CZcams's algorithm. Thanks as always for the support guys, I really appreciate it! Now, it's time to start some of the engine mods!
I wish they made them to hit at least a reliable 80mph, that's simply not fast enough for where I live
Unfortunately you won't get great performance from an air cooled 125. Lol. Drop a big bore kit on it. Or do what I've done and put a cr250 engine in.
What tires are on it? I heard some came with other tires "not the Vee Rubbers". Also, how bad are the Vee Ruber tires?
Mine and every 2022 I've seen to date has the crappy Vee Rubber tires on them. The OG only came with Vee Rubber and then the SF were mixed with Vee Rubber or IRC and now from what I can tell we're back to Vee only lol.
In my opinion... They are horrible. Hands down the worst tire I have ever ridden on. That's why I made sure to have a new set of Kenda KD1s ready to roll before the bike even got here. I won't do any mountain runs and have been tip toeing around until I get to the portion of the video series where I throw the new rubber on. For a normal rider though, the Vee Rubbers are probably going to be fine but if you like to push it in the least bit, I would throw them in the garbage and if you see the slightest bit of moisture on the road - stay away from it as these things are like glass when you hit water. To me, they just don't give you any feedback. It's grip grip grip, down. If you're just wanting to putt around and commute etc though I'm sure they'll be fine.
@@HondaProKevin Must have been the SF I seen came with the IRC tires. I was really hoping they were not coming with the Vee Rubbers. Sounds worse than I expected. I have Mitas MC19s on an XR70 with a 140 piranha. They grip really well. I guess I will need to be extra careful when I get my grom, still wating. Just got the date pushed back again. Thanks
Damn! Be careful on that thing 😆
Lol she's an animal!
Ok I don’t feel bad anymore. I have a clone and hits 60 sitting up right with some wind. I haven’t really tried hitting top speed because it’s still in the break in process.
Nice! Which clone did you go with?
@@HondaProKevin it’s the 2021 Venom X20
I thought the Feds were coming for you, Kevin! 🚓
lol you and me both! Was thinking I might be the first Grom to get a speeding ticket out on the highway for a second haha!
That is the great thing about a small displacement bike. You can ride the piss out of it and nobody even notices.
As someone who ended up on crotch rockets, your right. Small displacement bikes are the finest, right back to 12 yrs old 🙂
Funest. Damn spell check
Exactly! Coming from someone that has ridden sportbikes forever and was always chasing that next adrenaline rush of going faster on the mountains or track etc, the Grom brought back the fun of riding to me in 2013 when I snatched up my first one. You don't have to hit those crazy speeds to have fun and that's what it's all about! Plus, you get a few buddies with these and you can turn a parking lot into a race track lol or just race down the highway while not breaking the speed limit but you're having so much fun your cheeks hurt from smiling. I could ramble on for a while but 100% yes, small bikes are a blast! Like the old saying "It's more fun to ride a slow bike fast, than to ride a fast bike slow" and it couldn't be more true!
65 is plenty for the highway, just use your lane blocking skills and make those people driving 2 ton gas guzzlers give you some room!
how is the grom on the knees? is it as bad as a ninja 250? or is it comfortable to ride for old guys?
Chattanooga??
Yeah buddy!
I wonder how long it can handle that sort of rpm before that little piston decides to leave the chat?
lol that's a good question! You'd be surprised at how long these little guys can last. I haven't blown one up yet and fingers crossed this one's piston won't be sent to the moon but ya never know once we really start the engine mods lol!
@@HondaProKevin I have a 2018 that I put 5k miles on so far and it's held at wot for 80% of every ride! Haha, all I did was an airbox mod and exhaust plus a tune. I can't wait to get a 22!!
Im now 60 and i think if i get one ,it will outlive me ...
I've seen one online that gave @50k miles.
Fabulous bikes whats not to like..
Gotta agree with you on that one lol ;)
I have a Honda grom 2022 and had 85
No way you’re hitting that without some serious changes to performance and gearing, but I would definitely believe your speedo is off
How much do you weigh?
At the time of making this I believe I was right around the 170lb mark.
I didn't know that u take that bike on the highway😂😂
It may not be 100% legal but who cares, I like to live dangerously lol ;)
Use a GPS. The speedo is probably not accurate. My 22 Grom speedo indicates 12% faster than GPS speed. My top GPS speed is 51 mph in upright position.
How much do u weigh
I'm at about 170lbs in the video.
How much u weigh?
About 170lbs
How heavy are you?
About 170lbs in this video.
4.1.22 no war
Honda should make them max at 75 mph
That'd be nice! We're close, give it a few more years and another redesign or three and we'll be there lol!
Mine won’t go a lick over 60
Year?
@@one-xreaper7361 2022 obviously
Even while tucked?
Had my SP for 117 miles. I hit 62 once today, and have been up to 58 quite a bit already. Depends on the slope, and the wind direction, and I guess traffic draft. 185lbs. Topped out at 50 alone on a fairly flat road today, but the wind was awful in my face.
I had my 2016 z125 pro 4 speed up to 67
The 5th gear makes the difference
100%! Now, we'll see aftermarket guys develop a 6th gear for it and we'll be sending it to the moon lol!
@@HondaProKevin Funny
ah wind drafting
lol yessir! It's pretty cool seeing how much of a difference it makes.
not to bad down hill
Yeah buddy! Now, we just need her to run like that but while on flat ground without tucking lol!
You can brake these bikes from 60-30 by just standing on the pegs
lol yeah buddy!
Bro wtf its 125 cc and goes 70 kmh my 50 cc goes 70cc
70 kmh
That's miles per hour on the speedometer
How much do you weigh?
I'm at about 170lbs in this video.