diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ff900c6d..2a1df4e6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ script:
     # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
     - flake8 . --count --select=E901,E999,F821,F822,F823 --statistics
     # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings.  The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-    - flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=92 --statistics
 notifications:
     on_success: change
     on_failure: change  # `always` will be the setting once code changes slow down