Exhaust... stainless from ebay?
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Exhaust... stainless from ebay?
Just bought the headers off Ebay, brand new stainless ones as my originals are in a bad shape.
Mounted in OK, exhaust gaskets in OK, still using stock pipe.
Weird noise. Almost as if someone is blowing over an empty beer bottle sometimes.
Gutless / No power at all in half the gears at low RPM say 3-9k RPM the power of the bike jumps around a lot.
As well as this while riding on the torque at say 15-30mph the engine judders a lot.
Cleaned, re gapped spark plugs, charged battery sorted out my awful problem in starting the bike
However today ( fair enough its 1C) the 4th cylinder/right hand) didn't start for a long time. Is this because, with the lean of the stand, and that im already on a hill, the bike is leaning towards the left even more, there is no oil in that area of the engine, and it has kind of dried up?
I have a video you can listen to!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKZ7rDGk6gc
Yes, I did fall off and crash the bike after this happened in the snow.
I can't afford a car, however I did get pretty far/ good riding in the snowy roads on Saturday -
if you watch the next video on my channel you would see the crash on video.
Mounted in OK, exhaust gaskets in OK, still using stock pipe.
Weird noise. Almost as if someone is blowing over an empty beer bottle sometimes.
Gutless / No power at all in half the gears at low RPM say 3-9k RPM the power of the bike jumps around a lot.
As well as this while riding on the torque at say 15-30mph the engine judders a lot.
Cleaned, re gapped spark plugs, charged battery sorted out my awful problem in starting the bike
However today ( fair enough its 1C) the 4th cylinder/right hand) didn't start for a long time. Is this because, with the lean of the stand, and that im already on a hill, the bike is leaning towards the left even more, there is no oil in that area of the engine, and it has kind of dried up?
I have a video you can listen to!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKZ7rDGk6gc
Yes, I did fall off and crash the bike after this happened in the snow.
I can't afford a car, however I did get pretty far/ good riding in the snowy roads on Saturday -
if you watch the next video on my channel you would see the crash on video.
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Re: Exhaust... stainless from ebay?
You did fit new exhaust gaskets and pull out the old ones?
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Re: Exhaust... stainless from ebay?
You need a motard / mx bike... with spikes on the tirestescos wrote:if you watch the next video on my channel you would see the crash on video.

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Re: Exhaust... stainless from ebay?
I fitted new gasket yes that came with it : (
Never riding in snow ever again, thank god no more is coming this year.
On with a new list of problems Yay.
Never riding in snow ever again, thank god no more is coming this year.
On with a new list of problems Yay.