Thruxton Paddock Stand For Thruxton

I use Harris stands front and rear good quality,I have had them for about 12 year

 

You get back what you put in,

 

They are quicker than you’d think, give it full power off the line and it comes up off the power in first and second. If you turn the TC off. And my previous two bikes were a 675R and a GSXR1000

 

Gus the Bullmastiff is not a bike by the way he was just there

 

Sometimes he didn’t even let me out there

 

By the way the ABBA stand in the pic is quite useful if you buy the footrest kit, it then fits virtually any bike..

 

Thinking on,the ABBA stand with the footrest removal kit and a small bottle jack to lift the front would be perfect for removing the cat and installing the X pipe

 

I used R & G's paddock stand (PADD-REAR-BK) which fits the Thruxton and the Bobber amongst others.

 

Yes I have and here's the post I put on a few days ago!

Now then, I have a Thruxton 1200R with Vance and Hines (after market Triumph option) silencers with the baffles removed and with a Boosterplug fitted. Already done a couple of thousand miles like that and the sound is completely unobtrusive. Only downside of the bike is the low speed pick-up coming out of slow speed bends or roundabouts where you have to use a judicious amount of throttle.

Ordered theTec de-cat X pipe Friday, fitted it Saturday afternoon in about three hours, having seen the Tec video and some others. Did it on my own with the help of a rear paddock stand and the cat (pussy type)! As some of the other comments on here state, it is more difficult on the Thruxton for a few reasons but things to note are that the frame rail on the left hand side has to be freed off; the header pipes have a balance pipe in front of the radiator and I found the simplest things to do were remove the left header, loosen the right one and remove both silencers (to give access to the clamps on the cat/X pipe); also free off the tank and disconnect the left lambda sensor at the loom. There's no substitute for taking your time and stopping now and again for a quick slurp and to ease the brain fatigue. Once it's all stripped down, easy to fit after that. Make sure you're careful not to tear the graphite gaskets, put the clamps on the right way round and no point refitting the o.e. heat shield (I've a Palmer Products sump guard fitted).

Anyway, once it's all back together, it definitely sounds throatier and the low speed pick-up us much improved; no kangarooing out of bends any more and there's more mid-range, making an already fantastic bike into an even better one!!! Win-win, totally happy except there's nothing to look at, it's all hidden out of the way!

 

Mine is now 15 months old and I have tried hard to not use it in the wet so it stays fairly clean. The old cat came out easily and I was careful to make sure I got the X pipe lined up first before I began tearing any gaskets. The gaskets are soft but not particularly thin so will take a small amount of abuse!!

 

Spacefrog, what is your primary reason for fitting an X pipe? Power, or just sound?

 

If the power isn’t important any of the open pipes will definitely give the sound you want.
End cans you can fit in under ten minutes with no hassle at all.
With regards the the crash helmet it’s way more important than the bike.
So spend wisely

 

Contact Wizard Thruxton R parts for sale, he has standard cans with the baffles removed for sale