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    Senior Member Walcrow's Avatar
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    Will..........

    Just finished them up last night and won't be doing a ride till Monday. I'll check that out and report back. Mike's sounded good on YouTube but in person........DAMN!

    Comparing the two, the stock pipes sound like they have some congestion of some sort, and these 2015's didn't sound bad at all. The TBR's sound as if the stock pipes got a good dose of antibiotics and some crystal meth thrown in for good measure

    I was tempted to put the stock pipes back on behind the Torq Loopz to see what that did. Mike had his stocks on for a while but I've heard that the 2015 exhausts were opened up a bit similar to the Valk's. Maybe internet rumor, no clue on my part. I know for sure that these TBR's weigh less than the stocks, by a nice margin.

    And BTW, how's the Traxxion holding up???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walcrow View Post

    And BTW, how's the Traxxion holding up???
    I'm not scraping my pegs as much. And this place (Smokey mountains) is a good test track for determining that. The front end is more firm, and from looking at the top oil wipe marks on the front stanchions, they're not compressing/traveling as much; as they were when the stock forks were present

    I like the idea of having symmetrically matched front forks (regarding the internals). And I like the knowledge that I have tapered bearings now in the stem. Worth that horrible Atlanta rush hour experience

    Traxxion did tell me to keep the front tire at 34psi cold... was a little concerned about having pressure lower than what mother Honda recommends... though Honda bases THAT on THEIR suspension. I have re-worked suspension so.... have been trying to find the minimum Bridgestone recommended tire pressure and either my Google-foo is weak or that pressure specification is non-existent to the general public. So for now I have it at 36 psi. But I think that Traxxion Dynamics maybe should be the new spec. Once I get back to Maryland I will pursue further thought on this.


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