Why can’t vehicle manufacturers add an extra gear to increase top speed?

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Say for example a 125cc motorcycle with 6 gears has a top speed of about 75mph, why can’t they make it with 7 gears and surely that’d increase the top speed?

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Gears just increase the speed range in which the engine works on optimal rpm. But there is a limit to it, gears don’t give the engine more power than it has, and moving fast requires a lot of power

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