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Re: :WAS goodwood breakfast club NOW MBS STRIKES AGAIN
Some Serrows are dual start (electric and kickstart). Perhaps we all ought to get together and do a trails day in Wales - they have accomodation so could travel there the day before or something. I
By Hazel Clarke · #128041 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Sounds great.please let us know. Ben _____ From: W650riders@... [mailto:W650riders@...] On Behalf Of Jonhaddock@... Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:48 AM To:
By Ben Gundy <bgundy@...> · #128040 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
I'll have another go at armours....I'm fairly sure the problem lies with the coating they put on under the chrome.... Jon, since there seems to be a fare amount of people looking to purchase more
By Jon Haddock · #128039 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Jon, since there seems to be a fare amount of people looking to purchase more fishpipes have you thought of building a few un-chromed sets and we the buyers chrome them when we receive them? Just an
By Ben Gundy <bgundy@...> · #128038 ·
Re: :WAS goodwood breakfast club NOW MBS STRIKES AGAIN
Serow XR250
By Jon Haddock · #128037 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Ruari I have read here that this method produces sound that some have liked, and some regretted, hard to say what your results may be. It's a one way trip. Dennis
By Dennis Guggemos · #128036 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
That might work if the mufflers were the only silencing part, but that huge tray underneath is part of the silencing. Also, the note of the exhaust is derived from the shape ( and thickness of steel)
By Jon Haddock · #128035 ·
Re: Couple of newbie questions.
The bike runs very lean as standard at around 3000rpm. Good acceleration from these revs depends on twisting the throttle a bit because there is an accelerator pump which adds the correct amount of
By Jon Haddock · #128034 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
An old Triumph expert suggested that I should just sharpen a piece of narrow rebar, and hammer it through the stock exhaust/baffles bit by bit until the sound deepened. Anyone tried this? My Canadian
By Ruari McLennan <r.mclennan@...> · #128033 ·
Re: Couple of newbie questions.
What revs?
By Jon Haddock · #128032 ·
Re: :WAS goodwood breakfast club NOW MBS STRIKES AGAIN
Hm....All Yamaha trail bikes are called XT's. The slightly more hard-core versions of their trail bikes are called TT's, but we rarely saw them.. The Serow is an XT and is a lowish 'old school'...i.e.
By Jon Haddock · #128031 ·
Re: :WAS goodwood breakfast club NOW MBS STRIKES AGAIN
By Laura <laurauk.rider@...> · #128029 ·
Re: Couple of newbie questions.
Seems to be under gentle acceleration. Does not happen often, it's abit like the engine 'snatching' slightly. wrote: ride.> >
By pete7953 <peter.sluman@...> · #128030 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Yes, but there aren't many companies making repro systems for the classic bike market...Think about it.
By Jon Haddock · #128028 ·
Re: :WAS goodwood breakfast club NOW MBS STRIKES AGAIN
He he...been there. There is a trick you can use though. If the bike is pointing uphill...and they usually are when they sop...turn it around, point it downhill, pull in the decompresser lever, stick
By Jon Haddock · #128027 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Mmm, sounds like a lot of work, I take it you have looked at the W650.de shop? http://www.w650shop.de/Tuning/tuning.html Mark,
By Mark Campbell · #128026 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
I got a reply from MikesXS. They said the originals were very loud, essential straight throughs. So they had a chamber created inside the muffler to redirect the air and quiet them. SOOOO looks like,
By ksufanatic342 <ksufanatic@...> · #128025 ·
Re: :WAS goodwood breakfast club NOW MBS STRIKES AGAIN
Absolutely correct.... Not so sure that is true larry. I am sure that I saw in one of the bike mags recently that a company was looking to develop a 2 stroke that was a midweight. The emission laws
By [email protected] <larry.botheras@...> · #128024 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Got them, replied via normal email. wrote: trimmed in camera. cameras use come from work if
By nige_1959 <nigel.denton1@...> · #128023 ·
Re: Exhausts & retro noise
Still doesn't mean that they are the only option though, just means yo uahven't found another. wrote: in that stronger
By nige_1959 <nigel.denton1@...> · #128022 ·