BOS exhaust finnaly in and mounted along with new shock.

Skippy · Post by **Skippy** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:35 pm

Been waiting for four weeks to recieve the exhaust but it finaly made it, so I had it mounted at the dealer and they also gave me a new front shock under warrenty. The new shock is so mutch better then the old and the bike drives absolutely awesome right now. Found out that my shock was faulty when I took a testdrive on my dealers demo to see how the BOS exhaust sounded witch they mounted on there demo bike. The BOS looks great imo and also sounds nice and dark with some nice popping on deceleration(db eater removed of course ). They didn't fit the BOS sticker on the exhaust(don't know why) but think I'm going to leave it this way as it looks rather nice.

Some pics:

Love the steep angle of the BOS with will still alowe for systemcases to be mounted.

BOS is also a lot closer to the rear wheel with makes the bike look realy tight from behind.

thenewcamus · Post by **thenewcamus** » Fri May 18, 2007 3:18 pm

Oh Snap....

Seriously though, thats tight.

Post by **DJ Downunder** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:51 pm

Nice...

DJ

Lost Rider · Post by **Lost Rider** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:11 pm

That looks very nice.

chris · Post by **chris** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:37 pm

Huge improvement over the original dustbin can!

baffler · Post by **baffler** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:51 pm

Skippy,

What symptoms was your bike displaying with the faulty front shock? How would you compare it to the ride of the dealers demo bike?

Cheers,
Andrew

Skippy · Post by **Skippy** » Sun May 20, 2007 4:36 pm

Baffler, basicly the front shock had to little damping on the bound and rebound so under accaleration the front came up to mutch/fast and when you closed the throttle the front would drop quite noticably and very fast(no damping). It didn't bottem out or anything but it just moved way to mutch under throttle changes witch made it real bouncy witch was a bit anoying in coming into turns and going back out again. Now the bike is realy steady and the front moves in a far more controlled way then before. Hope this explanation is clear enough. When you doubt something is wrong with your front end try to drive another bike as I did and you will notice it directly(it was not a subtle differance). I probably have one of the first produced and delivered bikes I guess so maybe more bikes from this early run where effected.

baffler · Post by **baffler** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:59 pm

Hi Skippy

Thanks for your explanation.

My deal is that I was expecting my 1200R to soak up the bumps and dips a little better than it does and I was wondering if there was something wrong with it. I was riding a '94 Monster before ditching it for the 1200R and it also was a firm ride, and not as good as the 1200R, but I would have expected the 1200R to be light years ahead, but it's not. I'm also a little suspicious because I drove the 1200GS for a day whilst my 1200R was getting its first 1000 km service and the GS seems to have a more level ride. It doesn't buck like the 1200R does, maybe owing to the longer softer travel, or some other factor, I just don't know. A 4 year old Honda CBF 650 that I also borrowed for a couple of weeks also seemed a little softer than the 1200R (though not as stable at high speeds). But it could also all boil down to me being hyper-critical of my own purchase, and expecting it to be perfect in every way, or maybe there is something not quite right. I'll take your advice and take a demo 1200R for a spin (again) and see if there are any differences.

Don't get me wrong though, I love the bike. It's the best two wheels I've ever sat on and I don't regret it at all. I'm just trying to make sure everything is right, and that I'm riding it right.

Baffler

Skippy · Post by **Skippy** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:30 pm

Could also be that you rear suspension is set to soft this could also cause some bucking. Still try another R and see what this one does but make sure you have both bikes rear preload at the same setting to make a good comparisson.

Read this thread on rear shock set up when your not familiar with how it should be done.

http://r1150r.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=9319