Cycleworks exhausts

[xwhatsit]

Spied a Cycleworks exhaust for a CB250RS on Tardme the other week, one of the wreckers selling it. I was nearby the other day so I popped in to take a look, needs a bit of paint but looks really nice, no rust really. Two into one, yay.

Was tempted to buy it, good price, but I've realised I'll need to fab a bracket for the centre stand (centre stand leans on stock exhaust when folded up). So I'm wondering if I should bother.

Cycleworks -- any good? They were a NZ company, right? Looks solidly built, should I really pay $180 for something that old and square-looking? I'm tired of rusting stock pipes blowing out and holing. Would like to get something that'll last. I'm not in the market for a pipe for `performance' (not that pipes ever do anything for that) or looks, I'm in it for practical reasons as in not throwing money away on more stock exhausts that don't last through winter.

[crash99]

Hey - I had a couple of new cans made by them for my 900 Hornet - top quality, awesome sound. Mine are stainless. I recommend Cycleworks in general.

[R6_kid:Me]

Take off the centre stand.

[xwhatsit]

Take off the centre stand.

Not a fucking chance. I had to spend a month or two without one when the original broke a weld (too much kickstarting on the stand standing on the other peg), and once you've had a centre stand there's no way you can live without it. One of those race-stand things doesn't come close.

I've ditched the chain guard, the sensible bars, the battery, the mirrors, the rev counter, the automatic decompresser; but I draw the line regarding practicality with the centre stand. Just too damned useful and time saving.

[R6_kid:Me]

So buy the pipe, and deal with it when you get it? I've got an old centre stand that you could modify to fit. It's not from a CB250RS but it's from an old 250 which I no longer own. It's yours free if you want it.

[twotyred]

Cycleworks -- any good? They were a NZ company, right?

yes good and they have been making bike mufflers for thirty years and still are

[Trudes]

I have cycleworks exhausts on my Hornet, they are good, not stupidly priced, well worth the $$ I spent on them to make the bike actually be heard!

[geoffm]

Spied a Cycleworks exhaust for a CB250RS on Tardme the other week, one of the wreckers selling it. I was nearby the other day so I popped in to take a look, needs a bit of paint but looks really nice, no rust really. Two into one, yay.

Was tempted to buy it, good price, but I've realised I'll need to fab a bracket for the centre stand (centre stand leans on stock exhaust when folded up). So I'm wondering if I should bother.

Cycleworks -- any good? They were a NZ company, right? Looks solidly built, should I really pay $180 for something that old and square-looking? I'm tired of rusting stock pipes blowing out and holing. Would like to get something that'll last. I'm not in the market for a pipe for `performance' (not that pipes ever do anything for that) or looks, I'm in it for practical reasons as in not throwing money away on more stock exhausts that don't last through winter.

Well, if you get the pipe, Come around here and we can probalby make a bracket for it. Bring some old clothes.
Geoff

[Madness]

As has been stated, Damon has been making exhausts for ever. He can't have kept going all these years by making rubbish.

[pete376403]

Cycleworks -- any good? They were a NZ company, right? .

And still are - Located at Taita, Lower Hutt.

I have a Cycleworks 4-into-1 pipe on my GS1100, purchased in 1993 or 4, still very good condition. It broke at the collector when it hit the expansion ramp on the interisland ferry. Damon repaired it without question and made a better type of joint while he was at it.

Thoroughly recommended

[xwhatsit]

Right-o, might have to pick it up then. Thanks for all the advice.

[vifferman]

Cycleworks -- any good?

I had a pair on the XBR500RS Mutant, and they seemed fairly solidly and well made. $180 sounds like a pretty reasonable price for a zorst.

[xwhatsit]

I bought it yesterday, but the cheeky bugger wouldn't let me take it home. `Too dangerous' or something. I had brought heaps of bungie ties with me and everything though!

Told me to bring a car. *Thud*.

[vifferman]

I bought it yesterday, but the cheeky bugger wouldn't let me take it home. `Too dangerous' or something.

Once you'd paid for it, what business was it of his? Isn't it now your property, not his?
Anyway, even if it was dangerous, couldn't you have sedated it before you lashed it to the hull of your vessel?

[xwhatsit]

Anyway, even if it was dangerous, couldn't you have sedated it before you lashed it to the hull of your vessel?

Well that's what I said; I also asked if I could borrow his angle-grinder to chop it into sections to fit in my backpack but he wouldn't let me near anything sharp either.