went to honda tamworth yesterday for a coffee and a chat and was shown the new AKRAPOVIC for my new blade looks very nice but have.nt heard it yet ......they also could,nt tell me if there was any noticable performance which is what you first ask when somebody asks you for £815    

Where is Honda Tamworth? Is that the Sutton Motorcycles that used to be Suzuki?

I know Fast Bikes he puts a Leo Vince system on (£1100) and got about 10hp midrange - but not really any peak hp.  Also put a piper cross filter on and made no difference at all. 

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theres two sutton motorcycles m8 one is in boldmere which did honda up untill about 18 months ago now its suzuki and theres tamworth (wilnecote) mainly honda........

Kwacky:

cut it off at the headers and have a slash cut.  Looks and sounds better and it's 10 times cheaper

i,ll have athink about that ....honda gave me a lecture on how it would affect the warranty if any probs ...........bet it don.t affect the warranty if i gave them £815

by the way kwacky same guy is in the novices with us at donny....

When you already have a 170bhp-best-sportsbike on the market, Bratty, i wouldn't bother about power gains...go for looks and sound. You will never notice the difference on the road unless the gains are huge!

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daytona63:

When you already have a 170bhp-best-sportsbike on the market, Bratty, i wouldn't bother about power gains...go for looks and sound. You will never notice the difference on the road unless the gains are huge!

I'd agree with that, 170 BHP is enough already. A nice end can would be enough IMHO, and then spend on handling and a bit of bling thrown in.

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yep i think your all right tbh i think £815 is a bit silly unless theres a big difference in performance .......but there is.nt

To be honest for me the reason for buying a can is the improvement in looks and sounds rather than performance increase.

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D 6:

To be honest for me the reason for buying a can is the improvement in looks and sounds rather than performance increase.

l agree with that and must admit the picture of it on the excact same model of mine looks wicked , but have.nt heard it yet,,,,thinking i might wait for the motorcycle show at nec should get one a bit cheaper

i,ve been thinking if my exhaust is nackered i might as well replace it with the AKRAPOVIC it makes sense really

I can't fault your logic! Crashing seems like a bit of an extreme way to go about justifying the cost of a new exhaust though!

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