GT550 pipes, especially the outer RH one.
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 5:31 pm
They are like rocking horse sh!t and are made from unobtainium unless you are VERY VERY lucky - and/or rich/stupid.
They are the ones that there has been several posts about recently, and although I managed to buy an early left hand outer BNIB recently, the RH outer is very rare. I have never seen a new one in the last 4 years at less than about £800 and that isn't even funny, some wazzock may have bought it though, I care not.
In my opinion, if someone did, then he should be beaten with it until it looks like a Velocette silencer.
(Google it if you don't know.)
That's the one that gets all the crap and weather when the PO eventually gets tired of the bike, decides he will sort it 'soon' and parks it up on the side stand against a house/barn/shed/whatever so that the top RH pipe gets any weather/snow/crap that the environment decides to send our way before eventually selling the bike on with 'one careful owner' and 'low mileage' bilge that we see so often.
More like one careful owner and several dipsticks. Or just one dipstick owner seemingly from planet Zog.
Unless you are either very lucky or sheer bloody minded as regards originality, then I reckon the best way, is to just buy a set of chambers. It's not as if we are going for top performance out of a 40+ year old bike is it? Is it???
Commercial chamber makers aren't likely to make something that the average joe can't fit to a standard bike and then forget without lots of timing/carb issues are they? No.
They sound good, weigh less than the standard exhausts (which are cloned from a small planet) and cost far less.
That means they will give better performance due to the weight saving, cost less and look good - especially the SS ones which don't rust. Did I mention they cost less? Win, win, win.
My personal preference is that some chambers' down pipes don't look pretty with angles rather than smooth 'swoops' as the original exhausts. You're different? Well, that may or may not make you a bad person - you decide.
I like 'swoops'. This means I may have to have some made to my spec. Still a major cost saving over OEM 3-4.
Oh, by the way, anyone want some standard exhausts with a few dings? Late or early?
3-1 going on the A. don't care if it doesn't perform well at the top end.
I don't spank a 40+ year old as they tend to complain anyway............
Much better than a younger model - they always want bling or 'something' to keep them happy.
You know what I mean.
Yeh, right.
Keep smiling, it beats scowling all the time.
They are the ones that there has been several posts about recently, and although I managed to buy an early left hand outer BNIB recently, the RH outer is very rare. I have never seen a new one in the last 4 years at less than about £800 and that isn't even funny, some wazzock may have bought it though, I care not.
In my opinion, if someone did, then he should be beaten with it until it looks like a Velocette silencer.
(Google it if you don't know.)
That's the one that gets all the crap and weather when the PO eventually gets tired of the bike, decides he will sort it 'soon' and parks it up on the side stand against a house/barn/shed/whatever so that the top RH pipe gets any weather/snow/crap that the environment decides to send our way before eventually selling the bike on with 'one careful owner' and 'low mileage' bilge that we see so often.
More like one careful owner and several dipsticks. Or just one dipstick owner seemingly from planet Zog.
Unless you are either very lucky or sheer bloody minded as regards originality, then I reckon the best way, is to just buy a set of chambers. It's not as if we are going for top performance out of a 40+ year old bike is it? Is it???
Commercial chamber makers aren't likely to make something that the average joe can't fit to a standard bike and then forget without lots of timing/carb issues are they? No.
They sound good, weigh less than the standard exhausts (which are cloned from a small planet) and cost far less.
That means they will give better performance due to the weight saving, cost less and look good - especially the SS ones which don't rust. Did I mention they cost less? Win, win, win.
My personal preference is that some chambers' down pipes don't look pretty with angles rather than smooth 'swoops' as the original exhausts. You're different? Well, that may or may not make you a bad person - you decide.
I like 'swoops'. This means I may have to have some made to my spec. Still a major cost saving over OEM 3-4.
Oh, by the way, anyone want some standard exhausts with a few dings? Late or early?
3-1 going on the A. don't care if it doesn't perform well at the top end.
I don't spank a 40+ year old as they tend to complain anyway............
Much better than a younger model - they always want bling or 'something' to keep them happy.
You know what I mean.
Yeh, right.
Keep smiling, it beats scowling all the time.
