Race exhuast is here
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, 23rd November 2010 at 21:38 (1103 Views)
The race exhaust turned up today. I was like a kid on christmas day opening it. It's so small and light in comparison to what I'm used to fitting. All I could keep saying to my wife was, "It's so cute."
As soon as I had demolished my dinner I was in the garage fitting it to the bike. And WOW the noise was unreal. it's very well made, snaking up through the swing arm next to the rear shock and then up to the exhaust hanging mounting point on the frame. Where the muffler/expansion chamber attaches to the frame is out of place (again) by about 10mm so instead of rebuilding the exhaust I'm just going to drill a new mounting point.
I had Zensen running for about 15 sec with the new exhaust before my wife told me to turn it off as the kids were going to sleep. Sounded beautiful thgough.
So I decided to put slicks back on the bike and to my delight the front slick won't bead (again). My wife is going to take the wheel down to the local tyre shop and get them to bead the tyre for me as I need the bike up and running as soon as possible so I can check everything is ready for Sunday.
Hopefully by tomorrow night the bike will be complete and ready to race.