BigFish

Been riding a Ducati Monster 1200 for the past week while my 5th Gen is in the shop awaiting parts to arrive. The monster is very nimble and has been fun. Ride is much more upright and somewhat reminds me of a dirtbike position. Only if there was more room for my right foot.

Sad news at the shop when I went to get my new rear boot. Needing heading bearing and rear wheel bearings. One of rear bearings is on back order up here. Powersports ,Canada contacted honda Canada to put a rush critical bike down on the part. It was on back order for 2-3 weeks. Their critical rush now has the bearing eta for Sept.2nd. Now big bill and no Bee. Thankfully I have a great friend with the one ass and 2 bikes problem so he has leant me his Ducati Monster 1200 for the past few days. It is quite different from my 5th Gen Bee. Been a fun ride though.

Rush2112, I know it's frustrating. There are some curves just long sweepers nothing like I've read about the Dragon. Hard getting tires when there is so much left on the edges. Cogswell, other option would to go ride with Switchblade and enjoy some twisties

Last September at 42351 km I posted a pic of my new Angel GT's. Today at 53178 km they look like this. 10827 km (6766.9 miles) on the rear wheel hauling my 245 lbs plus gear and other items at times in a spirited style of riding. If the roads around here had more curves I think I could have got more mileage out of them. Anyone mastered how to ride the edges of your tires while riding on a straight road. PSI was kept at 36 and 42

5th Gen and yellow. The best of both worlds. Congratulations.

After feeding the Mosquitos even more it was determined that this system would not work with the gasket given the size of the pipe and the new gasket. Removal of the old gasket was made easier with a hack saw. System sounds nice. The only complaint I have is that Delkevic does not send the nut and bolt for the mufflers support strap. I didn't use the re-use the gasket (it came off easily) or use the included gasket-in-a-tube. No leaks, I was just careful to put the bands over the sealing end of the flanges. The sound is amazing...toss that baffle. Was your bike new. That gasket on my 99 was not going anywhere. I do like the sound, nice idling rumble. My wife was a little concerned that I might wake the kids at 11pm last night after she was installed and the mess cleaned . We had some extra fun with the retaining grouse t for the tail piece which somehow fell inside the frame and had to be fished out. I have not tried it with the baffle removed yet. You need to take off the old gasket; I had to cut mine off as it was well stuck to the header. The Delkevic mid pipe should be a snug (not tight) fit onto the bare header, and I smeared the red VHT silicone that they supplied onto the bare, cleaned header surface before slipping the mid-pipe on. Best to leave the clamps a little loose and give every thing a good wiggle to get it lined up properly first. You might need to rotate the mid pipe a little to get the centrestand stop into the right position. Thank you for the feedback. That is exactly what I ended up doing. Also made sure that I washed them system off very well before firing her up to make certain there was no sweat, body oils or residual gasket goop anywhere. Liking the sound, can't wait until it matures a little with some carbon.

I just unpacked my Delkevic 14" SS high mount...bumper for centre stand was already attached. Anyone have any suggestions on getting the old gasket off or am I supposed to open the flange up more to fit over it? I bought a new gasket just in case but not sure if s gasket is needed with the flange system?

I do use the bike to commute to work a fair bit as well as just going for a ride because the day ends in "y"..the challenge where I live is finding roads less straight...there are some, they tend to be back roads strewn with gravel a lot of the time....I'm working on it.

Read somewhere about using a golf tee to depress the centre of the clips....works great...thank you

Must say being the first time riding on new tires the steering was quite different at the start. Way more confident on these AGTs than my worn out welcome with the old and worn out Angels and Demons...talk about stick and grip...don't see these helping with the concept of cruising along though lol

Well with the assistance of my lovely wife I got Bee loaded into the back of my truck the next morning and headed to Ottawa after work to get some new Angels (GT) mounted so I only missed the one day of riding. They actually still had some angels and demons in stock but I went with these. In order to keep track of the mileage....mounted at 42351 km.....now I/we can track the mileage

Switchblade I am not sure of the mileage as these Angels (ST) were already on the bike when I bought her 4400 Km ago. When she was safetied Aug.7th the mechanic thought I'd get about 2000 km more on them before needing a replacement....well I doubled that. So I can only say for certain that she was more than 4400km. I like the grip these Angels gave so I'm looking forward to the GT's....just need to find the quickest way to get them and on her with nice weather here.