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  1. I am amazed that shops are still selling them..... Also, recently I was at cyclegear picking up a few things and I end up talking to a BMW guy about to grab one off the shelf. Gave him the warning about the filters, told him he could go down by using one. He gave me a scoffed look at said, "K & N is quality" -- very sad, ok bud, sorry I mentioned it. (Ok, die idiot)
    5 points
  2. Hey Mello, perhaps you should have said. "Don't forget to fully torque up the filter to spec using the nut"! Then the nut may have smiled back and thanked you!
    3 points
  3. As an old mechanic never had an oil filter leak, car or bike, until using K&N for the first and last time, haven't used since never will
    2 points
  4. Maybe riders such as that guy will have a new category in the Darwin Awards - "killed themselves in the most stupid way possible . . . "
    2 points
  5. From the album: Colorado Backroads

    Pike's peak Summit. 22 degrees F.
    1 point
  6. From the album: Highwood Pass - Highway 40 - Kananaskis, Alberta

    A day trip through the Highwood Pass on Highway 40 - Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
    1 point
  7. Woohoo! Haven't been on here at all in the past few months, problems with gimpy hip so riding much was literally a big pain in the butt, and riding season ended around the same time. Someone at work was looking at a nice used 6th Gen and got me thinking about these again and I see it's all come good. Happy thoughts to pass the winter! Thanks to those who pulled us over the goal line.
    1 point
  8. I was looking at a set of graves but the FMF just spoke to me lol
    1 point
  9. Mate that sounds terrible, you could have been killed.!!! There's a long history of failures of these pieces of shit! As you have shown, you don't need to tighten them using the spot weilded nut to still have them fail. I cant believe K&N haven't been sued over this. Never ever use these K&N filters with the spot weilded hex nut.
    1 point
  10. Yep, Wade is building. I spoke with him yesterday to ask him to notify us when he is getting close to completing our order so we can contact everyone who has placed orders for headers. As an aside here, I also let him know how many 5 gen vs how many 6 gen orders we have. To us VFR owners, the only difference between 5 and 6 gen headers is that 6 gens have a 5/8” shorter collector exit pipe, but, to the builder, there is more to it than simply chopping off 5/8” from the finished assembly. Because the mandrel bending machine clamps so hard on the tubing to bend it accurately, the tubes suffer slight deformation at their ends. So Wade uses a hydraulic machine to expand the ends of tubes to the correct diameter. What this means for the collector exit tube is that he needs to cut off the 6 gen’s 5/8” prior to expanding the tube in order to provide a long enough expanded section to provide the proper length of clamping area for the midpipe to be fastened. I like that our fabricator builds our headers with this amount of foresight and experience. Back to the topic at hand - Wade has all the tubing back from the mandrel bender and is ready to start welding, but his supplier of tubing merges is backordered - one of the ways he keeps our cost so far below other fabricators we contacted is by using pre-manufactured tubing merges made from the same quality 304 stainless steel as the tubing used for the headers. The supplier told Wade he will have the merges for our headers by January 18. I and Duc2V4 both apologize for the delay - it certainly has taken much, much longer than expected to get to this point. We will stay in contact with Wade and, as we get them, will post more updates here.
    1 point
  11. From the album: Danno’s stuff

    Saw on recent trip to Viet Nam.
    1 point
  12. From the album: Danno’s stuff

    Tina on Ashlee’s bike!
    1 point
  13. Welding such thin metal causes overheating in that area and pressure cycles eventually cracks it. Proper procedure for joining such thin metal is brazing. It's such a problem that my racing club had banned K&N filters over 5-yrs ago. Trackday providers should do it also. Two years ago, burst K&N in T14 @ Thunderhill caused 5-bike pile-up. Totaled one very nice RSV4. One guy broke both his wrists. Another had serious back injuries requiring surgery. Not uncommon for spewing oil to land on headers and catch fire!! K&N burst and caught on fire @ Buttonwillow Raceway 2-yrs ago.
    0 points
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