Here is what the bike began as
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My commute bike. It's been painted again since this picture was taken.
DAY 1
Today I took the two mufflers off... the headache began.
I rode the bike with just the straight H headers (which dump underneath my pegs) after 5 minutes i had a headache from the raspy tone of the exhaust... sorta like a wet high pitched squeel. I added a thumbscrew at the end of my header pipes on both exhaust headers to deflect some of the sound waves. It helped... a little bit.
Jetting will be done later.
If this is the setup that i'm going to keep for the exhaust... then i'll make sure the headers and dumps look much nicer... but for now, I will continue with my commute
1. Took off both mufflers
2. Added resistance in the header pipes using 'thumbscrews'
3. Had to remove the bikes center stand (the mufflers stopped it from binding up the chain)
4. Cut the chainguard (from nasty block style to an inspiration of an R1's guard)
Cost= $1.38 for thumbscrews, lock washers and bolts from tractor supply
Time= 1.5 hours with test riding.
Weight reduction= 25-30 pounds (12-15 pounds per muffler, 5 pounds for the center stand, .02 ounces for the safety plastic cut from the chain guard)
Thats the chain guard.. which became very much visable without the muffler covering it up... so I had to chop it up
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Thats the center stand, and two mufflers that I dropped from the rear
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the subframe is next...
DAY 1
Today I took the two mufflers off... the headache began.
I rode the bike with just the straight H headers (which dump underneath my pegs) after 5 minutes i had a headache from the raspy tone of the exhaust... sorta like a wet high pitched squeel. I added a thumbscrew at the end of my header pipes on both exhaust headers to deflect some of the sound waves. It helped... a little bit.
Jetting will be done later.
If this is the setup that i'm going to keep for the exhaust... then i'll make sure the headers and dumps look much nicer... but for now, I will continue with my commute
1. Took off both mufflers
2. Added resistance in the header pipes using 'thumbscrews'
3. Had to remove the bikes center stand (the mufflers stopped it from binding up the chain)
4. Cut the chainguard (from nasty block style to an inspiration of an R1's guard)
Cost= $1.38 for thumbscrews, lock washers and bolts from tractor supply
Time= 1.5 hours with test riding.
Weight reduction= 25-30 pounds (12-15 pounds per muffler, 5 pounds for the center stand, .02 ounces for the safety plastic cut from the chain guard)
Thats the chain guard.. which became very much visable without the muffler covering it up... so I had to chop it up
Thats the center stand, and two mufflers that I dropped from the rear
the subframe is next...
arty-smiley: Hopefully mine comes out sounding bout the same. Good work man:thumbsup:
