I have now taken the plunge and fitted a stainless steel exhaust from Sandy Bike Spares. There are a couple of pros and cons I can see so far, along with a few doesn't matters.
Pro
- It's a lot quieter than my old, blowing, rusty OEM pipe. Which is definitely a good thing
- Cheap(er than most) ~ same as Delkevic
- Silencers are closer in to the bike, no more pillion boot melting.
Con
- Comes with 2 downpipes and a seperate collector box. There is no split outer pipe with clips to help seal these together, just the joint putty. Stopping the gas leaks where these meet has just taken about 3 or 4 hours, and it still isn't perfect (just fed up, so no more today, at least it is easy to access if ever I need to add more putty.)
Anyway. The bike is running just great, though I think I need to go for a ride to check my warm idle speed (found the idle speed adjuster next to the fuel filler cap, but didn't know what it was. Had a bit of a play and returned it to where it was, but should check it anyway). Fairly happy so far, will see what happens in the next 10-30,000 miles.
Pro
- It's a lot quieter than my old, blowing, rusty OEM pipe. Which is definitely a good thing
- Cheap(er than most) ~ same as Delkevic
- Silencers are closer in to the bike, no more pillion boot melting.
Con
- Comes with 2 downpipes and a seperate collector box. There is no split outer pipe with clips to help seal these together, just the joint putty. Stopping the gas leaks where these meet has just taken about 3 or 4 hours, and it still isn't perfect (just fed up, so no more today, at least it is easy to access if ever I need to add more putty.)
Anyway. The bike is running just great, though I think I need to go for a ride to check my warm idle speed (found the idle speed adjuster next to the fuel filler cap, but didn't know what it was. Had a bit of a play and returned it to where it was, but should check it anyway). Fairly happy so far, will see what happens in the next 10-30,000 miles.
