no trouble with the race line akrapovič on ground clearance
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no trouble with the race line akrapovič on ground clearance
You'll be able to file and polish some of that down. It'll never look great but it'll take your eye off of it. Morale of this episode ... don't ride over speed/safety bumps and don't run it off or up kerbs.
... I've never taken it up or off a curb ...
... and the speed hump is about 4" high... Any bike should be able to clear that at 5mph ...
I'm 120kg in gear my TI Akra is fine, bumpy roads, I removed the feelers from the pegs and still scrape the pegs, never scrapped the exhaust.
Well something is wrong with mine then. I'm going to put the stock exhaust back in and compare ground clearance measurements between that and my Akrapovic.
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I'm 120kg in gear my TI Akra is fine, bumpy roads, I removed the feelers from the pegs and still scrape the pegs, never scrapped the exhaust.
I've loaded my bike up to an estimated 200kg odd, pillion and a tent. Pegs get down quite easily with this weight on, but exhaust has never been touched. Bike happily goes down (and sometimes up) kerbs and over speed bumps regularly, the kerb into my favourite practice carpark is 5-6 inch. The bike does feel super low and wallowy on the long dips at high speed but as of yet no grounding. My suspension is set pretty stiff and highly damped for cornering ability.
Your post has made me worry a fair bit, but it makes me wonder, are you forks any further through the yoke than standard, or do you have particularly wide/flat tyres? OR is it a possibility the suspension softens over time and causes this? I'm at 2800 miles currently and it has certainly softened up a bit
Good god that's terrible. Realistically they're saying fork out a fortune on new suspension or just live with it :O . Not impressed with what that grounding could do to the header studs/bolts.
Sounds like the usual Yamaha cop out..!