Hi Guys I am new to this thread came across it whilst looking for the solution to the header pipe touching the water hose.
After reading Cole's Sibersky extreme bike build I came across Clayton's notification that he is selling the bike and as they say the rest is history
Lovely workmanship a few weeks after I got it, I went for a six week trip around South Africa, after I came back and have been in a slight financial doldrums until now, so planning either another trip to SA this year or Morocco, or a a guided motorcycle trip to Libyan desert and for that I want to get this X-Challenge ship shape, and finally register in my name lol. But I suspect it have been standing for a few years before it got sold and it has been parked up in my garage since Sept of 2015.
So I will need to do a few things
1.) I probably need to replace the water pump seals
2.) Clean the fuel system
3.) Resolve the header pipe touching the water pipe
4.) Remove lower mudguard as it is chaffing the Front fork, and find an alternate front fender
As Clayton has fitted a SR titanium can I thought I would try and get teh matching header pipe, but it doesn't look like they are selling the header pipe anymore
http://www.sr-racing.de/auspuffsysteme/bmw/bmw-g-650-x/
I thought about replacing the pipes with Silicon pipes, and then just cutting 10mm of the pipe to see if I can get more clearance
One other item I will need to remove is the low fender as it rubs against the forks
So will need to find an alternative
Other Mods I am considering is converting the SS hotrod tank into a water tank and add the TT tanks or use the
Desert Fox fuel cells I have been using these on every
trip through South Africaa tough piece of kit, that I can highly recommend for any LRRAR or LRDAR, they are good for carrying fuel and water just make sure you mark them before use so you don't mix the water one with the petrol one
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