The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

Exhaust went to wrong DHL service area again!
That was after two phonecalls yesterday explaining where I live.
Two phone calls this morning and have arranged to meet up somewhere with a Dhl driver so should have it today!

'mon now! Get it installed and do a vid of the sound.
Also, if a Monday spin happens for next Monday ya can make the effort to come out and show it off. You can race Lappla

Ok, here's a quick sample video
http://youtu.be/Xoo7dpqQSO4

Mods delete double post.

Cheers

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Its a very neat looking can from the back and the matt finish is very nice, its nice and deep but not too loud. Also, a man on a galloping horse would not cop that it does not sit flush with the bike I think its a lovely job. If it really bothers you your man GIZMO (fella is a legend with exhausts) would have it flush in no time if you really wanted it to be. He is based in Dublin however.

What was the total price incld. shipping?

€288 all in!
I'll get over the not flush part I think, although I am fairly picky about my stuff..:o

Wasn't sure what to make of the sound off it.
Just sounded weird!!
So I called to a mate and asked him to blast past me a few times and absolutely loved the sound of it passing!
I'll put it down to the triple+can being totally alien to me.

BrokenArrows wrote: »

When doing about 30mph I can hear something rattling. It happened last winter too.
Must be something which is contracting in the cold but I can't find what it is.

Have you considered long johns? :pac:

blade1 wrote: »

Have It on!
I'll stick a vid up in a while.
The only thing, it doesn't really run parallel with the tail of the bike

Savage! You wont notice the small misalignment at all.

I think we need a title change

batman_oh wrote: »

Decided to ditch the heat shield off the exhaust. Much more blue than expected!

Whats blue? Can't seem to see past the calipers???



Titanium system? Look at them and they go funny colours

batman_oh wrote: »

Yeah it's all titanium - nice and clean after heat shield kept it protected! Will have to clean up the rest to try and get it it match

Even heat and even cooling, do ya have a garage that'd keep the breeze off it as it cools

Richard tea wrote: »

Finally got some spare time to look at the problem with the heated grips. it turns out the scotchlok wire connectors did not cut fully into the wire. I removed them and fitted propper connectors with shrink wrap. Grips are working fine now.


Next job will be to fit braided lines;)

Good Man joe. Your Hands will be grateful

Fair play to you Tzardine. Alot of work there and complicated enough. Im going have my carbs out soon enough so ill be picking your brain;)

I finally got around to removing the front fairing completely, and straightened out the brackets a bit.

The front of the bike was about 10 degrees skewed to the left, and it's now almost straight, perhaps 3-4 degrees to right. The main motivation for doing this was that my headlight was blinding car drivers. It was throwing light way up to the left, usually straight at the bus / truck drivers sitting high up on the left lane. I have that straightened out now, but I think it's still pretty high up. There's very little adjustment I can do as most of the plastic tabs around the light that is supposed to hold it in place is all broken. I need to try a couple of more things, but not looking forward to blinding a bunch of people tonight...