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Personally I’d find any ‘loud’ exhaust a little annoying, but only because I fitted a stubby ebay special to the GN125. It was so deafening on a test ride that I was too embarrassed to rev the bike, and sheepishly bimbled past police on my way home. Immediately removed it and never refitted.
The grasstracker itself looks great. I’d have loved one instead of the GN - basically what I was turning the GN into anyway.
Did you read up on stripping and rebuilding the RFY shocks? Apparently they can benefit from doing the QC the factory doesn’t.
Probably going battery-less isn’t as beneficial as you think. No massive weight saving for example. You can get pretty small batteries anyway, and if you’re already messing with the loom you can replace the reg-rec for one that is suitable for lithium and could then fit a little lithium battery instead.
These are about as mini as you can get for indicators. I have them fitted to the DR. Don’t forget the no-load led flasher relay in lieu of the original, and if there’s a telltale light on the dash then you need a diode kit to get it working properly.
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Good tips there!
I haven't actually gotten around to servicing the shocks yet but it's on the to do list!
I'm sort of harbouring a notion of upgrading the carb with a proper Yoshimura one and getting an actual Yoshimura end can and redoing the exhaust to suit at some stage which will probably cost about €1,000 in parts which is a bit silly but sounds like an awful lot of fun so I'll suffer the noisy boy for a little while I reckon!
I'm almost certain I have bought some of those very indicators! Size wise they're great little things but I might get some of that orange tint spray and give them a coat... I've never liked clear lenses on anything :)
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Still dicking around with this and haven't done any lessons yet but I'm intent on getting on it this summer as we're moving to a new place which will mean a optional lovely commute across mountains to the office...
Finally fitted my Wishimura (exhaust and Yoshimura decal from wishdotcom) exhaust, first time I've welded in about 25 years and it was an interesting combination of stainless steel and steel... that exhaust wrap is hiding a multitude of sins😅
Actually looks pretty great and sounds mean! I ran out of exhaust wrap so need to get a longer roll and redo it and then do some wiring on the new headlight and maybe swap in some mini indicators but it's coming together, it runs like shit though so need to disassemble and clean the carb and then see how it is but I suspect it'll need a bigger jet in the carb.
Kind of thinking a Yoshimura inspired red/ black paintjob could look pretty cool and paint the rims and engine black too maybe?
Will also most likely do a battery-less conversion and stick some slightly more adventure type tyres on if anyone has a tyre recommendation for something that'll do about 75 - 25 road - off-road?