Triumphrat

chrisell · 09-18-2009, 04:14 PM

All.
I finally took the plunge and ordered an aftermarket exhaust for the tigger. I got a Remus Powercone in Titanium. It's just arrived via brown santa so I'm going to fit it this weekend and post some pics afterwards for anyone interested. I can confirm that the connector pipe does have a bracket for the centrestand although I don't yet know how well it will line up. Pics will follow probably on sunday.

chrisell · 09-20-2009, 06:49 PM

Fitting the pipe took about 50 minutes from saddle off to saddle on. The kit came with everything I needed. You need to remove the saddle, grab rails and rear bodywork to get at the bolt that holds the stock exhaust on. About the most difficult thing was putting the small heat shield back on the belly pipe at the end. It has one bolt and two tabs with rubber grommets. Getting the steel teeth on the pipe to plug in to the tabs on the back of the heat shield was fiddly. I only took the heatshield off to ease access to the lower pipe clamp. Everything went on perfectly with no hammering, twisting or bending required. Put it all on with the bolts done up loose, then loctited them and tightened them up one at a time. The tab on the connector pipe lines up perfectly with the bung on the centrestand - see photo below.

Job done. Sounds great even with the baffle in. We weighed the stock exhaust vs. the Remus and the powercone is 7.5lbs lighter. Which is nice.

One note - the Remus instructions are priceless:
1. Remove standard equipment.
2. Fit Remus exhaust.
That was it.

Photos. Bike is still grubby from a rain ride last weekend:

Catenaccio · 09-20-2009, 10:54 PM

Nice looking pipe. I thought as I looked at the working end of the pipe it'd be a bit too quiet for my tastes, but you are obviously pleased with how it sounds. Congrats.

chrisell · 09-21-2009, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Catenaccio

Nice looking pipe. I thought as I looked at the working end of the pipe it'd be a bit too quiet for my tastes, but you are obviously pleased with how it sounds. Congrats.

I've not run it with the baffle out yet - that'll come later

chrisell · 09-22-2009, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by pinspastr

I can confirm that the connector pipe does have a bracket for the centrestand

Yep - the fourth photo in my post up above shows the centrestand up and propped correctly on the tab on the connector pipe.

chrisell · 10-04-2009, 11:41 PM

Followup:

After 600 miles or so since fitting, here's some observations for those still considering a Powercone.

- I'm running baffle in, stock engine map
- no appreciable change in power - not down, not up. I've not dyno'd the bike but it doesn't "feel" any different
- mpg dropped by about 0.5mpg (US) if you believe the onboard mpg gauge - ie. its a wash
- sound is great :-)

TallRob · 11-16-2009, 10:17 PM

Have you ridden with the baffle out and if so how's sound when compared to the baffle in?

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisell

Followup:

After 600 miles or so since fitting, here's some observations for those still considering a Powercone.

- I'm running baffle in, stock engine map
- no appreciable change in power - not down, not up. I've not dyno'd the bike but it doesn't "feel" any different
- mpg dropped by about 0.5mpg (US) if you believe the onboard mpg gauge - ie. its a wash
- sound is great :-)

chrisell · 11-16-2009, 10:41 PM

Actually yes. The circlip damn near killed me when I finally got it out but I rode a couple of hundred miles baffle out. It's a lot louder for sure - enough that at the end of the day my ringing headache persuaded me to put the baffle back in and it's been there ever since :-) And that was with earplugs in.

chairman · 11-19-2009, 05:31 AM

I am looking at possibility of fitting a replacement after market exhaust system to my Tiger 1050. One of the systems I am looking at is the Remus Powecone 3 into 1. My concern is that I am also fitting panniers. Will this interfere with the panniers, what I mean is will the exhaust exit just in front or under the pannier box thus burning it. In which case I will have to settle for a slip on can. By fitting the Remus Powercone system I am hoping that apart from the obvious power increase and better sound, I am hoping to fit a better pannier system to the Triumph units which would not have a great loss at the right side where the standard pipe exits.
My next question is, does anyone have a suggestion to what pannier system would fit which would give me equal size panniers each side?

chrisell · 11-19-2009, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by chairman

By fitting the Remus Powercone system I am hoping that apart from the obvious power increase and better sound

From my experience there is no noticable power increase with the Powercone. Typically you won't get any increase simply from putting a different exhaust on. You'd need to remap the engine too. I got my Powercone for the look of it and the sound, and that it removed 7lb in weight from the bike - simple.
It does exit pretty low down - the mounting bracket holds the top of the pipe about 3 inches below the bottom of the pillion footrest. I don't have panniers but it seems to me that you'd need panniers the size of a London bus for them to be affected by this particular solution.