New bike day (yesterday)
Discussion
Shame about the loud exhaust. 
Thanks all.
Started work early today so I could finish early and get a few more running in miles clicked off.
Lever positions fine tuned and I’ve played around with the settings a bit.
The bike has the supposedly maintenance free (in reality low maintenance) chain. I’m not sure if the wax on it was from the factory or the dealer applied it, but it’s disgustingly sticky.
I had to take the back wheel out and give it a proper clean including 2 goes with the steam cleaner plus clean the swing arm.
I’ve brought the wheel indoors and treated it with GTechniq C5 to hopefully make the next few cleans a lot easier.
I’m going to have to either change the bar end mirrors or add some extra heavy bar end weights to try and reduce the vibration. Above about 60mph, all I can see is a blur.
Overall thought, it’s just fantastic.
I’m out again tomorrow and Sunday. After that I should be able to go from just 7k rpm to 9k until the running in service is done.
Started work early today so I could finish early and get a few more running in miles clicked off.
Lever positions fine tuned and I’ve played around with the settings a bit.
The bike has the supposedly maintenance free (in reality low maintenance) chain. I’m not sure if the wax on it was from the factory or the dealer applied it, but it’s disgustingly sticky.
I had to take the back wheel out and give it a proper clean including 2 goes with the steam cleaner plus clean the swing arm.
I’ve brought the wheel indoors and treated it with GTechniq C5 to hopefully make the next few cleans a lot easier.
I’m going to have to either change the bar end mirrors or add some extra heavy bar end weights to try and reduce the vibration. Above about 60mph, all I can see is a blur.
Overall thought, it’s just fantastic.
I’m out again tomorrow and Sunday. After that I should be able to go from just 7k rpm to 9k until the running in service is done.
Google [bot] said:
For the exhaust critics, the OP says end can. I went through this with my Z900, it’s the cat that does the majority of the silencing, an end can does little.
Apart from "Loads more & much louder pops & bangs on the over run". I don't understand all the pops and bangs that are in vogue, they sound f
king rotten. I don't mind a nice sounding engine on open pipes, although appreciate that others do mind.I genuinely don’t get why old men with grey beards see antisocial bahaviour courtesy of loud exhausts and childish pops and bangs in any way acceptable. Wonder how they’d feel if the fast and furious mob regularly held meets outside their house? Or a rave maybe? I live at the foot of the Snake Pass. The din from modified motorcycles and cars is offensive. It carries for miles. FFS grow up before your behaviour gets bikes banned in the peaks and elsewhere.
NS400R said:
I genuinely don’t get why old men with grey beards see antisocial bahaviour courtesy of loud exhausts and childish pops and bangs in any way acceptable. Wonder how they’d feel if the fast and furious mob regularly held meets outside their house? Or a rave maybe? I live at the foot of the Snake Pass. The din from modified motorcycles and cars is offensive. It carries for miles. FFS grow up before your behaviour gets bikes banned in the peaks and elsewhere.
And screaming 2 stroke racers are suitably quiet? NS400R said:
I genuinely don’t get why old men with grey beards see antisocial bahaviour courtesy of loud exhausts and childish pops and bangs in any way acceptable. Wonder how they’d feel if the fast and furious mob regularly held meets outside their house? Or a rave maybe? I live at the foot of the Snake Pass. The din from modified motorcycles and cars is offensive. It carries for miles. FFS grow up before your behaviour gets bikes banned in the peaks and elsewhere.
It’s possibly a two fingered salute to all the other “not allowed” nonsense that goes on. I used to stick religiously to 30 limits but now they are everywhere I do whatever speed I feel appropriate. It’s liberating until you get caught.
NS400R said:
I genuinely don’t get why old men with grey beards see antisocial bahaviour courtesy of loud exhausts and childish pops and bangs in any way acceptable. Wonder how they’d feel if the fast and furious mob regularly held meets outside their house? Or a rave maybe? I live at the foot of the Snake Pass. The din from modified motorcycles and cars is offensive. It carries for miles. FFS grow up before your behaviour gets bikes banned in the peaks and elsewhere.
Exactly. Sad git behaviour.Gassing Station | Biker Banter | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff