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Aladinsaneuk
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late happy xmas to me...

#1 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:18 pm

my new fuel exhausts just arrived..... look spiffing :)

and, despite my best attempts at metalwork, I gave up on my tail tidy.... but mate over the road is a metalworker and is making one for me :)

once all done, I will take the obligatory phots to prove once and for all that black is the fastest colour :)
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Re: late happy xmas to me...

#2 Post by Falco9 » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:22 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:my new fuel exhausts just arrived..... look spiffing :)

and, despite my best attempts at metalwork, I gave up on my tail tidy.... but mate over the road is a metalworker and is making one for me :)

once all done, I will take the obligatory phots to prove once and for all that black is the fastest colour :)
After SILVER that is?

Nice to have the sound of rolling thunder though isn't it

Louds cans? you know it makes sense

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#3 Post by Tweaker » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:32 pm

Been doing your Good King Wenceslas impression then?........ gathering winter Fuels? :smt047
Sorry, I'll get me coat then........
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#4 Post by bigun » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:52 pm

I haven't heard my bike for ages. Tempted to start it up tomorrow for just to put a smile on my face! :smt020
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#5 Post by FlyingKiwi » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:07 pm

Put my Fuel Cans on just before Xmas and finally got out on it last week.
MUCH better :smt041 and thats with the baffles in.
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#6 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:02 pm

well, have spent the day fettling on the falco.

The exhausts were easy to fit - I took my time on them and went crazy with cleaning stuff - my wife thinks I am sad for cleaning the inside of the allen key heads with a dremel brush attachment.... but, what does she know :)

Anyway, fitted them - and tip here - spray the inside of the rubber mounting straps with wd40 - you then can turn the pipes more easily to get them straight.

So, fire dit up - and yep, sounded nice - very nice.

Mate popped over from the other side of the road as he heard them, and as we chatted my nervous disposition got the better of me and i started fiddling with a size 4 allen key and a 10 ml spanner, and bugger me the baffles fell out.....

Now that sounds intense - and sounds right. I think that at low revs, in built up areas, they will not be illegal - loud and full of character but not too bad.
(While being thrashed i think they may well be a little excessive but :)

Oh - and final part of my xmas present - I just got some aprilia falco panniers, used once, for 100 quid off evil bay :)
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