There is some mistake in service manual book. Rear shock standart 2 Clicks. Manual for 2017/2018 has this writen wrong. Check sticker on the bike, that measure must be correct there.
@mani3k123e2 ай бұрын
Does the motorcycle behave normally after removing the db-killer? There is no more combustion, it doesn't heat up? Have you done a remap?
@busabobsgarage98766 ай бұрын
Nice vid, thanks for sharing 👍
@RobWaldron8 ай бұрын
Drill and rivet sizes please and did you use staimless or ally rivets ?- thanks.
@rodrigofabregas77568 ай бұрын
Great video man!, just bought the AKRAPOVIC recently and also would like to remove those Db killers. Thank you!
@bigjerm96579 ай бұрын
Great videos! Would have loved to see the rest of the build. Do you have any shots of the finished bike?
@CCasyno11 ай бұрын
Have the same exhaust, hardly seems worth the change, the rear Pannier racks are for sure butt ass ugly, but they are also rear crash bars beyond the rear pegs. Great video. Trust me I want my rear racks off too. My Vstrom had these twist lok screws for them and they were a breeze to remove when I could. But my current Tiger 900 R well. They are all sorts of pretty much permanent without the original bolts that I cannot locate .
@Texas2Tires Жыл бұрын
Nice video, thanks for sharing. I too have seen others remove the baffles and there's a bolt welded on each baffle that is supposedly easy to crack off. What size drill bit and rivets did you use? I'm considering doing this with my BMW R1250RS. I have the same black titanium Akrapovic can.
@TommyMaloneswag11 ай бұрын
@Texas2Tires, I have almost your same bike (2022 R1250R) and I'm considering removing the DB killers on my Akrapovic as well. Let me know what you find from your research!
@marillion2a Жыл бұрын
super, comme vous avez les db killer d’origine et que je cherche les mêmes, pouvez vous me donner la référence svp? merci
@anthonyvb4860 Жыл бұрын
Which size rivets did you use on the Carbon part?
@heinifalk809 Жыл бұрын
Great video. Your "workbench" is super clean. I need to go though this same setup now so thanks for the quick heads up on what's waiting for me
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
Staying organized is one of my specialties… Lolol. Glad you liked the vid
@chrissahlstrom8939 Жыл бұрын
Hey man. Now that you lived with it for a bit. Are you still happy about the sound? Or do you wish you kept it stock?
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
Very happy I did it, stock sounds awful in my opinion. It’s a much deeper more pleasant sound but not obnoxiously loud, I’m very comfortable riding through my neighborhood early in the morning knowing I’m not upsetting my neighbors. 10/10 would recommend if you have this Akra slip on
@chrissahlstrom8939 Жыл бұрын
@@goldnmoto383 thank you for getting back to me. After spending 1500 cad on the exhaust only for it to be quiet as stock im not happy. Going to drill out the db killers tho so wanted to make sure. Thanks again
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
@@chrissahlstrom8939 Absolutely! Good luck on it, I’m pretty confident you’ll enjoy the sound way more after you pull them
@michaelkeay8051 Жыл бұрын
Great video. This is why i went for a yoshi alpha where the removable db killers are an optional.extra (no thanks) The Akra as standard sounded pretty much same as stock (think Dyson)
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yea I was very disappointed with what the Akra sounds liked stock, like you said very “Dyson-esque”. Definitely sounds better with the baffles cut out but still no where near what a true free flow sounds like. Weight is the other issue, it’s shocking how much that Akra weighs when part of the leading advertisement for it is how much weight you’ll save. I’ll likely be switching to a Yoshi in the near future when I do the Rottweiler intake
@waltherluna2866 Жыл бұрын
Hey bro, and the part 3?
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
Life got in the way unfortunately... Got everything recorded though just need to finish the edits, hoping to be done in the next week or two. Thanks for the interest though man, stay tuned!
@sunnycloudy1337Ай бұрын
@@goldnmoto383next week? bro, a year passed, you still alive? 💀
@obsessivehobbies5464 Жыл бұрын
Did you have to do anything with the heated grips to make them work? or did they just pop up in the menu?
@stevecaren1957 Жыл бұрын
Have you tried to decatalize your bike also from the manifold? I wanted to understand if the sound is very invasive to alert possible controls
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
No, I believe the only way to do that would be to cut the header open with a grinder, cut out the catalyzer, then weld the header back shut. Lot of work and I don’t have a welder. I would not consider this system obnoxiously loud with the dB killers removed, but that’s just an opinion…
@ryanmalone2681 Жыл бұрын
DB killer removal starts at 06:45
@jiwuj4091 Жыл бұрын
看得出来你很喜欢KTM
@chrissahlstrom8939 Жыл бұрын
I have the same bike (2020 model) Looks like you have aftermarket tires on it. With only 1200 miles on it? I like the stock seat and bought the same akro exhaust. Also disappointed at first with the sound. Now that it's broken in I actually like the sound and that it's not overly loud. I've got the full aluminum cases and very happy with them as I'm able to lock my helmet and other valuables in them when I go to a store or whatever
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
Always good to meet another SAR rider! Love these bikes. They are aftermarket tires but came with it, I bought it used at about 1,200 miles and the previous owner had put them on. Check out my other video on removing the baffles from the Akra exhaust, sounds WAYYY better and it’s not a terribly hard to do.
@chrissahlstrom8939 Жыл бұрын
Cool will do! Ya definitely my favorite bike to date. Are you getting any glitches? I've had my fuel gauge not read right after a fill one time. And I had a hard start twice where it didnt want to turn over
@goldnmoto383 Жыл бұрын
@@chrissahlstrom8939 a couple little ones here and there. I’ve had the gas gauge issue where the gauge didn’t show it had filled even though the range meter showed the range of a full tank, that reset itself after like half an hour though. Hard starts every now and then if it was really cold the night before. Quick shifter acting weird once or twice…. Other than that not really anything noteworthy. Just crossed 11,000 miles on it a few days ago and going strong!
@chrissahlstrom8939 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Looks like weve had the same issues. Good to hear shes running strong. I have no doubt the bike will last a long time other then the few glitches here and there
@mathys3307 Жыл бұрын
Salut cool la vidéo merci ! Elle est plus rapide que l’origine du coup sans tout ça ? Quel est le gain ? Accélération, vitesse max ?
@lesgarten2 жыл бұрын
How many miles? It looks brand new!
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
It had 1,200 on the clock the day I picked it up. Literally didn’t even have any stone chips on the skid plate and all the bar code stickers were still all over it from the factory. Bike hadn’t even gotten wet yet. If you had told me that it was brand new never ridden the day I picked it up I would have believed you lol, super clean
@lesgarten2 жыл бұрын
@@goldnmoto383 Yeah, the airbox and throttles showed it was basically new.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
@@lesgarten yup, they looked fresh out of the box for sure. I’ve put about 5,000 miles on it since that video, lot more color on there now lol
@DTMFJeff2 жыл бұрын
Great Video, any codes or issues after removing the SAS? Are you doing a DynoJet fuel map system too ?
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Thanks! No issues at all. Just got back from a 1,000 trip through Vermont and she ran flawlessly. Still back and forth on whether I’m going to do any tuning, if I do I’ll likely go with a Bren Tuner for both my Super Duke and Super Adventure. I’ve run Power Commanders on a few bikes before and want to try something new.
@DTMFJeff2 жыл бұрын
Has anyone removed the Catalytic converter too?
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
There’s no catalytic converter in the muffler. That’s in the header pipe. A few people have done it and posted videos but it’s quite a bit of work and requires you to cut into and then reweld the pipe. For a couple hundred bucks you can just buy a stainless header without a Cat
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
For some reason, when you said ceramic coated headers, my first thought was chrome-like 😅
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Lol some nice shiny chrome headers
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
Hey, still hanging for the sequels!!
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Just posted it!!! And added a list of products in the description this time lol
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
@@goldnmoto383 thanks!
@Jason_LVJ2 жыл бұрын
Great video
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@coboisarapatanas2 жыл бұрын
What’s the brand of the handguards? I didn’t get it
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
They’re Cycra Probends
@GameplayTubeHD2 жыл бұрын
The carbon not burns inside because of these holes? Or you covered the holes somehow?
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Nope, I did not cover the holes and there’s no burning. Ridden a couple hundred miles like this now without a problem
@GameplayTubeHD2 жыл бұрын
@@goldnmoto383 Ok thanks for the answer and the video offcourse.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
@@GameplayTubeHD absolutely, we have a lot of longer rides planned this summer I’m going to be making videos for, if there is an issue with the holes I’ll definitely include that in a video.
@GameplayTubeHD2 жыл бұрын
@@goldnmoto383 I already removed the DB killers today. So I gonna test it to.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
@@GameplayTubeHD great, hope the video helped!
@mt-09nz982 жыл бұрын
I got an Akrapovic exhaust for my 1050xt and it looks identical to your exhaust. It looks like I’ll have to remove the db killers as well as it sounds almost identical to stock which is really frustrating. Great video!
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Yup, it’s crazy they charge so much for these things and advertise “huge weight reduction and improved sound”… if you close your eyes they sound exactly the same. We put a Yoshi Heptaforce on my dads SAR and it sounds sooooooo much better than the Akra, weighs half as much, costs half as much, and looks twice as good. If I smash this Akra that’s what I’m going to replace it with. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
The top exhaust will not melt the indicator light? From the video, it's literally pointing the hot flow to it.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
There’s really not THAT much exhaust flow even with that stupid little pilot hole opened up, whacking the throttle open there’s probably only 25% of what’s coming out of the bottom pipe. Rode it for an hour the other day and the turn signal was barely warm. And if it does melt when we get into some hot summer days it will just give me an excuse to swap the ugly stock signals for some fancy ones too.
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
Ergo.....kinda....tip Replace the round knobs for windshield adjustment, with the 3 prong star from the new model, they are backwards compatible and cheap from KTM. It's WAAAAY easier to adjust them with the lil star while on highway, I hate the original knob.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
That is a fantastic idea, I absolutely hate this current knob, honestly my biggest complaint with the bike. Seems like even with gloves it’s an pain in the ass to adjust. Ordering one this weekend.
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
@GoldnMoto The part reference number is 60708008053B2 Here over my side of the pond, they cost 6€ each.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Good man, thanks! That is shockingly cheap for a KTM part…
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
Hey, your 10th subscriber here. Really liked your video and vibe. I own a 2018 SaS here on my side of the pond in Portugal, love this beast. Really looking forward for the next video on this series, cheers!
@alex.shenanigans2 жыл бұрын
Also, can you add the links for the products in the video description?
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Hell yea, double digits!! Appreciate the comment man, glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Always great to meet another SA rider, favorite bike I’ve ever ridden.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Yea that’s probably a pretty good idea to do huh? Thanks for the suggestion, still trying to really dial in everything to include on these videos. I’ll go back through and add them to the videos this weekend.
@Eric-Marsh2 жыл бұрын
I just ordered a Pipe Werx can for my 2021 1290 SAS. I also ordered an inexpensive db meter. I'll be interested in seeing what that tells me.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
I’d definitely be interested in what the dB meter shows. We just put a Yoshimura heptaforce on my dad’s 1290 SAR and it sounds WAYYYY better than my Akra, even with the baffles removed. Don’t have actual quantitative data on the noise differences though, just what the ears report
@rudiausbuddeln38042 жыл бұрын
Great and helpful video. Keep it up!
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Thanks man! Whole lot more coming
@TheMostH8D2 жыл бұрын
SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED THE DB KILLER...HAHAHA 12:15
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha nothing better than a free flowing tailpipe!
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Is it pronounced Akrapovic or Akrapovic?
@travistyranny2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Ivan-kj6wr10 ай бұрын
Can you put then back once they are removed like this?
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
How many times can I say "can"?
@steveroy2172 жыл бұрын
💔 Promo-SM.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
?
@RandyPiscione2 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to wish you luck with the bike, I also have a 2018 1290 SAR. I'm about to put Dunlop Trailmax Mission tires on it, you might want to check those out. I did the KTM skid plate, Lone Rider bags and rack, 16-tooth countershaft sprocket (so I can actually use 6th gear without going to jail), heated grips, Hammerhead aluminum shift lever and Tusk top rack. I'm considering some of the Rottweiler mods as well. The bike is amazing. Doesn't have the fit and finish of my BMW R1200GS (wrecked in an accident) but a comparable BMW was $8500 more. I can buy a lot of fit and finish for $8500! I'm around 5'10", 63 years old, and this thing is a handful off road but that motor is incredible.
@goldnmoto3832 жыл бұрын
Thanks man! Great to meet another SAR rider, these bikes are so damn cool. Been building another 2020 SAR for my dad for about a year now, put the Lone Rider bags on his, great luggage. Glad to hear you're back on two wheels after wrecking your GS, hell of a thing to go through. Definitely agree on your comparison of the two, I bleed orange so the decision was basically already made for me. This is my third bike with an LC8 in it, can't get enough
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There is some mistake in service manual book. Rear shock standart 2 Clicks. Manual for 2017/2018 has this writen wrong. Check sticker on the bike, that measure must be correct there.
Does the motorcycle behave normally after removing the db-killer? There is no more combustion, it doesn't heat up? Have you done a remap?
Nice vid, thanks for sharing 👍
Drill and rivet sizes please and did you use staimless or ally rivets ?- thanks.
Great video man!, just bought the AKRAPOVIC recently and also would like to remove those Db killers. Thank you!
Great videos! Would have loved to see the rest of the build. Do you have any shots of the finished bike?
Have the same exhaust, hardly seems worth the change, the rear Pannier racks are for sure butt ass ugly, but they are also rear crash bars beyond the rear pegs. Great video. Trust me I want my rear racks off too. My Vstrom had these twist lok screws for them and they were a breeze to remove when I could. But my current Tiger 900 R well. They are all sorts of pretty much permanent without the original bolts that I cannot locate .
Nice video, thanks for sharing. I too have seen others remove the baffles and there's a bolt welded on each baffle that is supposedly easy to crack off. What size drill bit and rivets did you use? I'm considering doing this with my BMW R1250RS. I have the same black titanium Akrapovic can.
@Texas2Tires, I have almost your same bike (2022 R1250R) and I'm considering removing the DB killers on my Akrapovic as well. Let me know what you find from your research!
super, comme vous avez les db killer d’origine et que je cherche les mêmes, pouvez vous me donner la référence svp? merci
Which size rivets did you use on the Carbon part?
Great video. Your "workbench" is super clean. I need to go though this same setup now so thanks for the quick heads up on what's waiting for me
Staying organized is one of my specialties… Lolol. Glad you liked the vid
Hey man. Now that you lived with it for a bit. Are you still happy about the sound? Or do you wish you kept it stock?
Very happy I did it, stock sounds awful in my opinion. It’s a much deeper more pleasant sound but not obnoxiously loud, I’m very comfortable riding through my neighborhood early in the morning knowing I’m not upsetting my neighbors. 10/10 would recommend if you have this Akra slip on
@@goldnmoto383 thank you for getting back to me. After spending 1500 cad on the exhaust only for it to be quiet as stock im not happy. Going to drill out the db killers tho so wanted to make sure. Thanks again
@@chrissahlstrom8939 Absolutely! Good luck on it, I’m pretty confident you’ll enjoy the sound way more after you pull them
Great video. This is why i went for a yoshi alpha where the removable db killers are an optional.extra (no thanks) The Akra as standard sounded pretty much same as stock (think Dyson)
Thanks! Yea I was very disappointed with what the Akra sounds liked stock, like you said very “Dyson-esque”. Definitely sounds better with the baffles cut out but still no where near what a true free flow sounds like. Weight is the other issue, it’s shocking how much that Akra weighs when part of the leading advertisement for it is how much weight you’ll save. I’ll likely be switching to a Yoshi in the near future when I do the Rottweiler intake
Hey bro, and the part 3?
Life got in the way unfortunately... Got everything recorded though just need to finish the edits, hoping to be done in the next week or two. Thanks for the interest though man, stay tuned!
@@goldnmoto383next week? bro, a year passed, you still alive? 💀
Did you have to do anything with the heated grips to make them work? or did they just pop up in the menu?
Have you tried to decatalize your bike also from the manifold? I wanted to understand if the sound is very invasive to alert possible controls
No, I believe the only way to do that would be to cut the header open with a grinder, cut out the catalyzer, then weld the header back shut. Lot of work and I don’t have a welder. I would not consider this system obnoxiously loud with the dB killers removed, but that’s just an opinion…
DB killer removal starts at 06:45
看得出来你很喜欢KTM
I have the same bike (2020 model) Looks like you have aftermarket tires on it. With only 1200 miles on it? I like the stock seat and bought the same akro exhaust. Also disappointed at first with the sound. Now that it's broken in I actually like the sound and that it's not overly loud. I've got the full aluminum cases and very happy with them as I'm able to lock my helmet and other valuables in them when I go to a store or whatever
Always good to meet another SAR rider! Love these bikes. They are aftermarket tires but came with it, I bought it used at about 1,200 miles and the previous owner had put them on. Check out my other video on removing the baffles from the Akra exhaust, sounds WAYYY better and it’s not a terribly hard to do.
Cool will do! Ya definitely my favorite bike to date. Are you getting any glitches? I've had my fuel gauge not read right after a fill one time. And I had a hard start twice where it didnt want to turn over
@@chrissahlstrom8939 a couple little ones here and there. I’ve had the gas gauge issue where the gauge didn’t show it had filled even though the range meter showed the range of a full tank, that reset itself after like half an hour though. Hard starts every now and then if it was really cold the night before. Quick shifter acting weird once or twice…. Other than that not really anything noteworthy. Just crossed 11,000 miles on it a few days ago and going strong!
Oh wow. Looks like weve had the same issues. Good to hear shes running strong. I have no doubt the bike will last a long time other then the few glitches here and there
Salut cool la vidéo merci ! Elle est plus rapide que l’origine du coup sans tout ça ? Quel est le gain ? Accélération, vitesse max ?
How many miles? It looks brand new!
It had 1,200 on the clock the day I picked it up. Literally didn’t even have any stone chips on the skid plate and all the bar code stickers were still all over it from the factory. Bike hadn’t even gotten wet yet. If you had told me that it was brand new never ridden the day I picked it up I would have believed you lol, super clean
@@goldnmoto383 Yeah, the airbox and throttles showed it was basically new.
@@lesgarten yup, they looked fresh out of the box for sure. I’ve put about 5,000 miles on it since that video, lot more color on there now lol
Great Video, any codes or issues after removing the SAS? Are you doing a DynoJet fuel map system too ?
Thanks! No issues at all. Just got back from a 1,000 trip through Vermont and she ran flawlessly. Still back and forth on whether I’m going to do any tuning, if I do I’ll likely go with a Bren Tuner for both my Super Duke and Super Adventure. I’ve run Power Commanders on a few bikes before and want to try something new.
Has anyone removed the Catalytic converter too?
There’s no catalytic converter in the muffler. That’s in the header pipe. A few people have done it and posted videos but it’s quite a bit of work and requires you to cut into and then reweld the pipe. For a couple hundred bucks you can just buy a stainless header without a Cat
For some reason, when you said ceramic coated headers, my first thought was chrome-like 😅
Lol some nice shiny chrome headers
Hey, still hanging for the sequels!!
Just posted it!!! And added a list of products in the description this time lol
@@goldnmoto383 thanks!
Great video
Thanks!
What’s the brand of the handguards? I didn’t get it
They’re Cycra Probends
The carbon not burns inside because of these holes? Or you covered the holes somehow?
Nope, I did not cover the holes and there’s no burning. Ridden a couple hundred miles like this now without a problem
@@goldnmoto383 Ok thanks for the answer and the video offcourse.
@@GameplayTubeHD absolutely, we have a lot of longer rides planned this summer I’m going to be making videos for, if there is an issue with the holes I’ll definitely include that in a video.
@@goldnmoto383 I already removed the DB killers today. So I gonna test it to.
@@GameplayTubeHD great, hope the video helped!
I got an Akrapovic exhaust for my 1050xt and it looks identical to your exhaust. It looks like I’ll have to remove the db killers as well as it sounds almost identical to stock which is really frustrating. Great video!
Yup, it’s crazy they charge so much for these things and advertise “huge weight reduction and improved sound”… if you close your eyes they sound exactly the same. We put a Yoshi Heptaforce on my dads SAR and it sounds sooooooo much better than the Akra, weighs half as much, costs half as much, and looks twice as good. If I smash this Akra that’s what I’m going to replace it with. Glad you enjoyed the video!
The top exhaust will not melt the indicator light? From the video, it's literally pointing the hot flow to it.
There’s really not THAT much exhaust flow even with that stupid little pilot hole opened up, whacking the throttle open there’s probably only 25% of what’s coming out of the bottom pipe. Rode it for an hour the other day and the turn signal was barely warm. And if it does melt when we get into some hot summer days it will just give me an excuse to swap the ugly stock signals for some fancy ones too.
Ergo.....kinda....tip Replace the round knobs for windshield adjustment, with the 3 prong star from the new model, they are backwards compatible and cheap from KTM. It's WAAAAY easier to adjust them with the lil star while on highway, I hate the original knob.
That is a fantastic idea, I absolutely hate this current knob, honestly my biggest complaint with the bike. Seems like even with gloves it’s an pain in the ass to adjust. Ordering one this weekend.
@GoldnMoto The part reference number is 60708008053B2 Here over my side of the pond, they cost 6€ each.
Good man, thanks! That is shockingly cheap for a KTM part…
Hey, your 10th subscriber here. Really liked your video and vibe. I own a 2018 SaS here on my side of the pond in Portugal, love this beast. Really looking forward for the next video on this series, cheers!
Also, can you add the links for the products in the video description?
Hell yea, double digits!! Appreciate the comment man, glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Always great to meet another SA rider, favorite bike I’ve ever ridden.
Yea that’s probably a pretty good idea to do huh? Thanks for the suggestion, still trying to really dial in everything to include on these videos. I’ll go back through and add them to the videos this weekend.
I just ordered a Pipe Werx can for my 2021 1290 SAS. I also ordered an inexpensive db meter. I'll be interested in seeing what that tells me.
I’d definitely be interested in what the dB meter shows. We just put a Yoshimura heptaforce on my dad’s 1290 SAR and it sounds WAYYYY better than my Akra, even with the baffles removed. Don’t have actual quantitative data on the noise differences though, just what the ears report
Great and helpful video. Keep it up!
Thanks man! Whole lot more coming
SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED THE DB KILLER...HAHAHA 12:15
Hahahaha nothing better than a free flowing tailpipe!
Is it pronounced Akrapovic or Akrapovic?
Yes
Can you put then back once they are removed like this?
How many times can I say "can"?
💔 Promo-SM.
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Just wanted to wish you luck with the bike, I also have a 2018 1290 SAR. I'm about to put Dunlop Trailmax Mission tires on it, you might want to check those out. I did the KTM skid plate, Lone Rider bags and rack, 16-tooth countershaft sprocket (so I can actually use 6th gear without going to jail), heated grips, Hammerhead aluminum shift lever and Tusk top rack. I'm considering some of the Rottweiler mods as well. The bike is amazing. Doesn't have the fit and finish of my BMW R1200GS (wrecked in an accident) but a comparable BMW was $8500 more. I can buy a lot of fit and finish for $8500! I'm around 5'10", 63 years old, and this thing is a handful off road but that motor is incredible.
Thanks man! Great to meet another SAR rider, these bikes are so damn cool. Been building another 2020 SAR for my dad for about a year now, put the Lone Rider bags on his, great luggage. Glad to hear you're back on two wheels after wrecking your GS, hell of a thing to go through. Definitely agree on your comparison of the two, I bleed orange so the decision was basically already made for me. This is my third bike with an LC8 in it, can't get enough