Fitted a stubby today

[jibdel]

I bought my 1150gs with a y piece & standard can fitted & to be honest was a bit disapointed with the performance. So after reading some posts on the forum about fitting a stubby i bit the bullet & bought a 2nd hand cat converter & a piece of scrap exhaust pipe from a local exhaust manufacturer. I fitted the cat & made myself a stubby from the scrap pipe,took about an hour all in. & Fcuk me what a difference!! It now pulls like a train & runs a hell of alot better. If your swithering over whether to do this mod yourself just do it.

 

[D6]

i did, then cut the cat to bits, (better), then refitted the y piece and remus and sold the cat and stubby, remus seemed to have the edge on mine

 

[Sleepy]

I bought my 1150gs with a y piece & standard can fitted & to be honest was a bit disapointed with the performance. So after reading some posts on the forum about fitting a stubby i bit the bullet & bought a 2nd hand cat converter & a piece of scrap exhaust pipe from a local exhaust manufacturer. I fitted the cat & made myself a stubby from the scrap pipe,took about an hour all in. & Fcuk me what a difference!! It now pulls like a train & runs a hell of alot better. If your swithering over whether to do this mod yourself just do it.

Plus you can fit a full size pannier on the left now..

 

[jibdel]

Yep i was thinking that. Just gotta find a nice cheap pannier now.

 

[Sleepy]

Motorworks sell replacement pannier backs (you fit your original lid) for just over £60..
A bit of modification is required to the locating lug coming off the left hand footrest.

 

[jibdel]

That sounds ideal,I'll look into that. Thanks Sleepy.

 

[realboss7669]

That sounds ideal,I'll look into that. Thanks Sleepy.

Alternative is get in touch with "redcap" on this forum about ARD cases.

My bike is an 1150GSA in black but I dont like the yellow so I took off the yellow tank stickers, got my seat re-covered by a chap in Newport, and have now fitted stubby and cat painted black. My old system panniers I will flog as Redcap made me some gorgeous aluminium panniers (ARD cases) which have been powder coated black. I have a spare set of Touratech panniers and the Redcap ones are easily as good (and price meant I stayed in my missus's good books ). The obvious bonus is that these new ARD cases are both full size.

I have a local chap modifying the TT racks for the new panniers so that the left side rack matches the right side.

All I need to do now is blacken the rocker covers and wheels

Will post pics once I'm done!