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Weight Reduction
DIR By: Rusty Shovel
Date: December 22, 2013, 8:51 am
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A couple ideas to shed 13 pounds of high-placed weight.
Wings titanium exhaust: 4.05 pounds vs 10.8 pounds (stock)
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Shoai Lithium Battery: 6.01 pounds vs 12.4 pounds (stock)
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13.14 pounds weight savings for ~$650? Seems like a deal to me!
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: coarsegoldkid
Date: January 23, 2014, 11:10 pm
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The pipe and battery are a no brainer. I could not believe the
difference on another motorcycle when I swapped out the battery.
Just the other day I removed the metal exhaust shields while
doing some work on my bike. I didn't realize how heavy they
really were. I saw that carbon fiber shields were available but
I don't remember from where. Also Supersprox can take a bit off
too in your next sprocket change. The SAS and canister with
associated plumbing is likely worth a pound or two if removing
it is your pleasure.
Then we add racks and lights and we are back to the original
weight. ;D
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: Tmblwd
Date: January 28, 2014, 2:30 pm
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A big heat reduction with the Wings also ;D
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: SDMF_Reaps
Date: January 28, 2014, 7:39 pm
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I'd guess the heat is more of a product of the bike being so
lean outta the chute. I'd like to hear a report from someone
with the stock pipe and a richer map.
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: Endo
Date: February 4, 2014, 9:10 pm
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Love my WINGS, but its tends to act cold blooded when starting
up in cooler weather. I've never had it mapped, just installed
it and did the idle start & run for 15 minutes expecting it to
adjust itself BUT it still dies several times during the idle
after start up until it gets warm. Anybody else have this issue?
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: mcrider
Date: April 26, 2014, 10:57 am
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I was riding with a group in Junction area & the KTM 950's Shoai
Lithium Battery caught fire. Seams several others have also.
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: Guymcfly
Date: April 28, 2014, 8:18 am
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I'd guess the heat is more of a product of the bike being so
lean outta the chute. I'd like to hear a report from someone
with the stock pipe and a richer map.
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I think the heat is mainly due to the catalytic converter in the
stock can. Although the lean mapping wouldn't help.
But more on topic...I weighed mine on the weekend...dry weight
here...
She weighs in at. 284.2 pounds!
I'm pretty happy with that result.
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: Rusty Shovel
Date: April 28, 2014, 8:33 am
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Nice! What'd you do to cut weight?! That's as light as my old
WR250R!
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: Guymcfly
Date: April 30, 2014, 7:09 am
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Funny you mention the Wr, as the new one weighs about 128kg
wet...which I wanted to get to dry with the ktm.
Remember that in Oz, we get the bikes without the smog gear as
well...The bike started a touch over 138 kg dry (I weighed it
after dropping the oil and fuel during its first service).
Some thing people will already know about but if any1 has
anything else to suggest, I'm all ears.
Can, use a titanium model, I use wings as it's cheaper than its
stable mate.
Battery, anti gravity
Replace stock fan with a much lighter one...there is an
excellent post somewhere on the net about using a PC fan. I did
this on a rallye bike back in 2008. As of 2013, the same fan was
still going strong, in spite of pressure washing and soaking
muddy enduros! Oh, and it weighed squat and drew less current
than the stocker.
Tubliss front and back (saves 2.2 lbs per wheel over the UHD's I
previously ran). I ride in Baja type terrain, with some nasty
rock garden stuff and have cracked many rims but not had
puncture problems to date (fingers crossed)!
Ditch passenger pegs and brackets
Cut down rear fender
Ditch the chain guard
Ditch the mirrors for a single light weight plastic fold up
version
Mod air box
Mod the heat shields on the exhaust (I drilled a series of holes
in mine).
Rear sprocket...alloy
I also ditched the horn as I can shout louder, lol
A few others I can't remember offhand. But I'll try and post
what I can remember.
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Re: Weight Reduction
DIR By: Guymcfly
Date: April 30, 2014, 8:13 pm
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I should also say that I only use the bike as a big enduro
machine.
I usually tell other riders its a motocrosser on steroids! As
such the major reason to mod my bike was not to increase hp, it
was always to drop the kg's a bit but to pull off anything that
will end up hanging from a tree or smashed on a rock.
The other big mod for mine was to change the suspension. Another
story in itself.
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