What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Helmut was kind enough to fit the GPR exhaust onto the Ducati for me today, saved me a job! I forgot to take an "after" photo with the bike still outside though....

 

Looks nice, has the sound improved also?

 

I was going to post the same thing!

 

We need to hear it or it didn't happen.

 

Yes; it was already a loud bike for stock, but is now deeper too. We should be out on the bikes tomorrow so will record a clip - Helmut can attest to the fact that I did try today, but it was terrible .

 

A mate has a 1200 multistrada and he, sort of, bought a cheap "Akropovic" for it.

Only problem was it was spelt wrong
If you were dyslexic, you would never have noticed.

It looked exactly like the real thing, but boy was it loud, although it came with a very near "cloned" sticker so worth every penny

 

Oooooh, that's sweet, @Mrs Visor!

 

Helmut and I went to The Piston Club today on the Tuono and Hyperstrada (it was meant to be the Multistrada but it had a mystery flat rear tyre ), the roads were wet and slimy and a bit muddy in places but the temperature was in double figures and the sun made an appearance, so it was a nice ride out.

Two hooligans in the sunshine:


Some new exhaust sound, it isn't much louder than stock as it was a noisy little beast anyway, but is deeper and looks much better.

 

Loooove those two hooligans, @Mrs Visor! And I really like that exhaust note. I'm a big fan of deep-sounding exhaust. And I agree with you that it definitely looks better than what was on there for sure.

 

How did you add a video, or is that via youtube?

 

Via Vimeo - it's free.

 

Knocked up a cardboard dummy of an oversized high performance battery I'm hoping to fit to my Ducati 1098 SF.

The engine was blue-printed and tuned about ten years ago. It's been off the road for years with a cracked piston. Finally got it sorted last summer, rode it three miles up the road and the starter sprag failed.

It was always a sluggish starter but the engine work has added 25 bhp, 20+ ft/lb of torque, higher compression and increased valve overlap. I just don't think the original battery is man enough to spin it over and has overloaded the sprag clutch, so there's no point replacing it until I've uprated the battery power.

Unlike the 1098 and 1198 sports bikes, the SF's battery is under the pillion seat, not behind the fairing and the uprated battery is larger so I have to work out if I can modify the battery tray to make it fit.