borgy95

I woke up this morning and thanks to tiggie i had a moment of inspiration. I've bought a tube of 1m carbon fibre tube, some rivets, cables ties,and heat wrapping. Its gonna be a DIY Saturday, lets see how this goes. Genuine question though in the pic above, it looks like the exhaust has an inner tube... WHat is the purpose of this? Would the baffle have been fitted around this? I don't actually think the bike had its baffles in place beforehand. How does this effect drive? People tell me it affects the the torque, but is it significant?

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@MrBrightside, Thats kinda what I'm thinking! The previous owner clearly did that. Taking a closer look, the piping he got was just some random pipe of a convenient diameter. Here are some pics uncovering the professional bodge job he did... Can anyone identify the material he has used for the tubing that is attached above? J

Weld the exhaust back on! That means going back down the M25 and finding where it fell off, somewhere between leatherhead and cobham. That thing is long gone... I'll get a pic up tonight.

Hi Everyone, bveen a good while since a poked my head in here... And on this occasion itsa minor SoS call. So im riding back from Brussels, on the last 30miles stretch when i here a rattle and then my engine seems to get CRAZY loud, like hurt my ears loud. So i stopped at the next pterol stop to take a look. Low and behold part of my exhaust had fallen off. So now i need to fix it im hoping someone here can help me save a few bob and economise becuase a full exhaust systems is like £4-500. Im Riding a Yamaha XVS650A . One of the the exhausts (the one the comes out the front cylinder - the longer one) has come apart in the center. It is apparent now that the exhaust was in two pieces, previously it was hidden by the fact it was wrapped with heat proof wrapping. The part connected to the engine looks like a standard chrome exhaust. The joint is appear to just be a tapered angle and the rear section hammered on then fix to the frame. (the fixing had snapped, my repair was a steel cable tie). Has anyone encounter this type of exhaust fixing? know where i might go to purchase a replacement? If my description sucks, say so and ill snap a pic, for everyone to have a look and laugh at. (it is pretty funny). Hope y'all been maximising the good weather when we've had it!

Hehe this is a classic...

I had a GPZ500 so it may not be quite the same but... There was one fuse box which was next to the battery. All fuses are important! If you have a haynes manual that is your best bet to understand the electronic workings of your bike. If you got your google wizardry on i'm sure you might be able to find the wiring schematics. And yes change that fuse with one that fits. The main thing is having the ampage correct, if it kinda fits but is in place nice and tight i wouldn't worry too much. J

Fair enough on the engine limitations.. I was just abit shocked to here such an extreme statement... What good can come from not racing, unless crutchlow wants to be MotoGP's = of Formula 1's Nico Rosburg!

Fingerscrossed im gonna be there... im 50% of the way there cash wise to get a new bike and kit... 3 more paychecks to get me 100%!

This is the article im talking about: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motogp/22063792 Im shocked, sounds like a massively poor attitude... He "may as well not race because they didn't collect data from the pre-season race"??? Why? Surely you should be ready to race and win (do your best) no matter what? Is there something im missing? or is this just a new age biker who swears by technogadgetry and not 'pure racing'?

Right cheers pointblank, i've begun to notice more details, if i turn ignition to on and i get the click, but then rather than keep trying go to off, then turn back to on.. it will start... so it seems likely something with the ignition is not quite right or it was fluke the last couple of times... I'll have to discover how this ignition system is all wired up and how the components fit together so i understand this = ignition. this =motor. this =solenoid .this = brushes, and it should clear it all up for me.. which means lovely weekend project.

Yo Megawatt... personally i cant do sunday, as im off to a festival... and i can garauntee sunday will be recovery day /possibly if i have life left in me nottinghill festival party time. Having said that if later in the weekend works better as a general consensus for everyone im happy to comply and see what can be done... but my preference is saturday. We just need people to pipe up! ninereeds would be great! yes thumb pulling from asses is always a good idea!

Guys i was thinking who wants to take one of our three days to go on a rideout that weekend? Personally i was thinking of taking the saturday (25 aug) and using it to go for an all day blast around these southern parts... Anyone else up for it? my thinking is just a one day solid riding, we meet up in the morning ride all afternoon have a pitstop then another route and then eventually return back to wherever we have come from? as for exact routes i dont have any... so any suggestion more than welcome...

ill actually give that a look, as it's started happening again...

just a heads up on a solved issue... a whole load-a WD-40 down the ignition sorted the issue