Carbon or Titanium-Help me decide!

[roy e6]

Rubin215 said:

roy e6 said:

Whats wrong with the ones it comes with?

First rule of motorcycling;

Despite the millions of yen Mr Honda/Suzuki/Kawasaki/Yamaha spent developing your bike, YOU can make it so much better by throwing more money at it yourself.

Noisy exhausts that mess up your fuelling, anodised tat bolts to make it look like a twelve year olds jewelery box, superlight levers and pegs to make up for that McDonalds, "special" paint jobs to make it look like its been crashed and repaired on the cheap and carbon look stickers to... erm, look like something thats meant to look like carbon...


If you want a different bike, buy a different bike.
If you want to build one yourself, do it like Britten.


Says Rubin215; owner of three bog standard bikes.

With the power of these bikes i do not think anybody would notice the extra 5 bhp or couple of grams less weight. You would certainly know you had a lighter wallet though. I have a K7 Gixer, and yes ok the exhausts aint the best looking in the world, but hey, who cares, i cant see them when i am doing god knows what speed. But the R1s you can hardly see anyway, there under the seat.

[mc101]

I went Ti -- beautful build quality ;-)

[GreigR]

mc101 said:

I went Ti -- beautful build quality ;-)

Is that the race system or road legal, seems like the baffle is still in? How loud is it?

[mc101]

Baffle was in for one of the shots but was removed before I collected the finished bike.

Not too loud at alll to be honest. No problems with noise at the silverstone trackday last Monday (102 drive by limit) ...