brsmits
BRB, on adventure...
Don't tell me it won't fit. It just needed some "persuasion."
Ok, so here's the deal: I was originally looking at the rocket because it's crazy. Then I saw that carpenter had built it up to another level of stupid crazy. It was always in the back of my mind, but I liked my race bike and my track days and 200 mph on my ****** rocket.
Skip ahead a few years and I find myself living in a park where everything useful is more than an hour ride away. The jibblets didn't like that. The wife also didn't like the fact that there was no back seat. So I trade to a 2013 R3 Touring. In the back of my mind I always had the carpenter bike in my head, and when I check google: Holy Crap they made a sidewinder now too!
Skip ahead a bit more and I'm calling Carp to order this lovely sidewinder! Now I don't know if they failed to mention it to me, or I failed to mention it to them that I had a touring, not a roadster, or whatnot. But the Sidewinder exhaust apparently wasn't made to fit the Touring bike. Yet here it is: $1600 later and i'm trying to figure out how to NOT make this a huge waste of money.
So head to the hardware store, find myself a chunk of metal, grab a dremel and some extra cut off wheels, take a few basic measurements, and start hacking away at it. A bit of trial and error later, I make a bracket for ~$10 that pushes down the megaphone JUST enough to avoid the Saddle Bag Support bar.
There was a bit of a learning curve. Little tips like (in order):
After you pull off the old exhaust, be sure to pull out the little oval gaskets inside the block.
You'll need 5/16" washers to act as spacers between the mounting plate and the capped nuts you took off the old exhaust. You'll need about 30 of them.
Take off the right side pannier support rail and passenger foot peg.
Put the mounting bracket on the block.
Assemble the three exhaust pipes into the collector.
Put pipe/collector combo onto mounting block.
Use a wine bottle opener to put the springs on. Screw it onto the long bit of the J hook, pull it over the necessary loop of the exhaust, unscrew. Easier than pliers.
Put the O2 sensor into the bung of the Megaphone.
Put the megaphone on the collector.
Cover the megaphone with a bunch of padding that it was shipped in
Thread the Pannier support bar into place, use a little bit of leverage to "convince" the megaphone to move down.
Use a piece of paper to mark off the location of the megaphone's mount, and the mounting holes.
Cut some metal to the right shape, see the photo above to what I ended up with.
Bolt it in, put everything back together.
Ok, so here's the deal: I was originally looking at the rocket because it's crazy. Then I saw that carpenter had built it up to another level of stupid crazy. It was always in the back of my mind, but I liked my race bike and my track days and 200 mph on my ****** rocket.
Skip ahead a few years and I find myself living in a park where everything useful is more than an hour ride away. The jibblets didn't like that. The wife also didn't like the fact that there was no back seat. So I trade to a 2013 R3 Touring. In the back of my mind I always had the carpenter bike in my head, and when I check google: Holy Crap they made a sidewinder now too!
Skip ahead a bit more and I'm calling Carp to order this lovely sidewinder! Now I don't know if they failed to mention it to me, or I failed to mention it to them that I had a touring, not a roadster, or whatnot. But the Sidewinder exhaust apparently wasn't made to fit the Touring bike. Yet here it is: $1600 later and i'm trying to figure out how to NOT make this a huge waste of money.
So head to the hardware store, find myself a chunk of metal, grab a dremel and some extra cut off wheels, take a few basic measurements, and start hacking away at it. A bit of trial and error later, I make a bracket for ~$10 that pushes down the megaphone JUST enough to avoid the Saddle Bag Support bar.
There was a bit of a learning curve. Little tips like (in order):
After you pull off the old exhaust, be sure to pull out the little oval gaskets inside the block.
You'll need 5/16" washers to act as spacers between the mounting plate and the capped nuts you took off the old exhaust. You'll need about 30 of them.
Take off the right side pannier support rail and passenger foot peg.
Put the mounting bracket on the block.
Assemble the three exhaust pipes into the collector.
Put pipe/collector combo onto mounting block.
Use a wine bottle opener to put the springs on. Screw it onto the long bit of the J hook, pull it over the necessary loop of the exhaust, unscrew. Easier than pliers.
Put the O2 sensor into the bung of the Megaphone.
Put the megaphone on the collector.
Cover the megaphone with a bunch of padding that it was shipped in
Thread the Pannier support bar into place, use a little bit of leverage to "convince" the megaphone to move down.
Use a piece of paper to mark off the location of the megaphone's mount, and the mounting holes.
Cut some metal to the right shape, see the photo above to what I ended up with.
Bolt it in, put everything back together.
