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howdy this is let me get four Mozilla here to talk to you today about the best modifications you can make to your sport bike so if you're watching this video my guess is that you probably are fairly new to sport bikes you might be new to bike modification as well you know you want to change a few things up on your motorcycle but you're not entirely certain where your money might be best spent we're here to help now in order to tell you what's going to be best for your motorcycle we really need to consider intended usage some of you are going to be riding on the street primarily I imagine that's going to involve most of the people watching this video but a smaller subset of you probably going to be interested in taking your bike to the track and exploring the outer limits of what you and your motorcycle can do so we've actually set this video with two different sections we've got a street section up front you can see we've got our r6 kitted out with some nifty bits here we're gonna blow this thing apart in the other section too and put some track friendly items on there now as I mentioned this is an r6 you may have a different motorcycle fortunately those sport bikes are reasonably homogeneous they're very similar motorcycles so if using something cool on our r6 odds are good somebody's making a similar product for your motorcycle use our bike finder at revzilla.com and we'll show you the pieces that fit your motorcycle exactly I also want to chat for just a moment - about the installation some of you guys are probably worried about that now given the wide range of products we have on the bike our installation is going to vary here anywhere from 1 to 3 beers on our beard scale of difficulty but I'm going to try and touch a little bit on installation of each piece to give you a little bit of additional texture to help you figure out whether you're capable of doing this stuff on your own or if you want to enlist the help of a friend or perhaps the local motorcycle shop in the installation now we're going to get started this thing going to start at the back of the bike be sure you subscribe to us so you can check out all of the content we're rolling out here at revzilla.com including gear reviews bike reviews and parts pieces just like this one so we kick things off at the rear of the bike with a Yoshimura fender eliminator kit now a fender eliminator kit is almost dare occur in the sport bike world these days everybody seems to use them and that's because it really does tighten up the rear end of the motorcycle if you look at a stock sport bike there's usually this big huge thing hanging off the back it's got a license plate and turn signals spaced way far you know apart from each other it winds up looking like a dirt bike on the back of the bike a fender eliminator kit as I said tighten things up back here there's lots of different brands out there we chose Yoshimura on this bike for a couple different reasons as I mentioned this is the street section we know that we're going to be riding we need to keep the bike legal not every single fender eliminator kit has a provision for a license plate light Yoshimura includes an LED license plate light huge selling point for us keeps the bike legal one of the other things we really liked about this too is it allows us to retain use of the factory turn signals there are some fender eliminator kits out there that don't make it entirely clear that you need to swap out your turn signals as well it can really add expense and time on to the job now one thing I do want to mention we had talked about installations this was a little bit of a bear on the r6 we took a couple hours to install this thing correctly if you're thinking about putting a fender eliminator kit on your bike remember some bikes really do require a few hours in order to do things correctly let's move on to the next modification I made here you actually can't see it right now it's under the seat so we're gonna pop this pillion seat off here and I'll show you exactly what it is that I'm talking about and that's this puppy this is USB power added USB power to our bike so let's pull this off of here I'll talk to you a little bit about what it is now we have a battery under the seat here standard set up for many sport bikes and we also have an SAE lead coming off there which we run back here so we can hook up a battery tender or a float charger to the bike and not have to worry about using tools now most bikes are going to come with an SAE tender lead from your dealer just about everything I see coming out of dealers these days has one installed and that's where you can capitalize and use this battery tender adapter so this will plug directly into the end of your tender lead but what this does to is adapt your power down to a USB port there so it takes your 12-volt power drops it down to the 5.5 required for most USB connections this can be really useful for Street scenario say you're riding around stop off for lunch you can now charge your cell phone very quickly and without grabbing any tools makes the bike really friendly to use again in those street type scenarios now some of you may be saying well I don't have an SAE tender lead in my bike in that case you may want to consider a similar item by trackside so first obviously there's an SAE tender lead included which is why I'm recommending this but there's another group of folks might want to consider that and that's people who actually want to use a usb item while they're riding around the mode our cycle so notice here these mounting wings on here these are designed to give a little bit more permanent installation so instead of running something to the back of the bike where it's convenient to get to but it's out of the way you may actually want to run power up north up near your clip on somewhere so you can use something USB powered while you're riding again for instance your GPS perhaps or maybe your cell phone for GPS you can use that stuff while you're on the motorcycle next modification to gets you here you can see we have a set of light tech spools on this bike now if you don't know what a spool is let me give you a crash course really quickly the old days you would just Jack a bike up from the frame underneath the bike if you take a look under here that we have all this delicate plastic and exhaust none of these are good load-bearing points if you slide a regular motorcycle jack under here you're very likely to break some things enter the spool the spool is how we get the back end of the bike up in the air most of manufacturers of sport bikes will include a threaded boss somewhere on the swing arm and we can do that it's thread in this little guy the spool and what the spool does is actually accept the paddock stand you'll notice we actually have this bike off of the lift by just a little bit you can see this rear wheel is spinning free here now spools are awesome because they are low-cost they're also a really easy installation you're looking at probably five minutes on here and they're a huge labor saver as I mentioned it's really easy to lubricate your chain or perhaps pop your tires off so you can either do tire work or bring him down to your motorcycle shop and have tires mounted up and balanced regardless of whether it's you working on your bike or the shop these are going to save somebody an awful lot of labor quick pro tip here the reason I like the light tech is these come in a natural finish you can see here some of the anodized aluminum ones look really cool but as you use these the lips of the paddock stand actually tend to kind of pull the anodizing off their that can look scarred up and look a little ugly if you have a natural finish it really minimizes and hides that damage just occurs from the spools actually being used so while we're down here let's go to our next modification this is our big splurge item here a Yoshimura TRC exhaust so I say this is a splurge item it's the most expensive item we put on here and it's probably the least functional but man these things sound awesome and they look great and that's the reason they're so popular with sport bike riders for those of you who are looking for some justification know that you will drop a little bit of weight in most cases with a slip-on exhaust so moving on to our next modification slide up here to the tank you probably have some trouble seeing this we have a tech spec snakeskin tank pad on there have one here that actually has not been installed so you can see exactly what it is we're working with so again this is the street section we know that everybody's going to be riding their bike and not everybody's gonna be in full leathers all the time you may jump on your bike wearing different clothes you may have zippers buttons your belt buckle perhaps can really tear up the paint on this very vulnerable area of the tank enter the tank pad now there's lots and lots of tank pads out there and available all of them work pretty well the reason we actually chose the techSpec was because this material is fairly heavy it's very rubbery not only does it shield against abrasion in that delicate paint area but this is also a very thick rubbery material so it also has some limited impact protection as well think about all those times you've grabbed a big handful of front brake and slid forward onto the bike well the tank winds up absorbing that impact and something like this tank pad helps spread out the impact load a little bit I've actually seen people impact the tank hard enough to dent it so this may actually win if saving you some bodywork really easy installation super inexpensive item I see these on a lot of motorcycles and it makes sense they just work now sticking with that bike protection theme you can see up here I've got a set of Shogun frame sliders on here as well now frame sliders can protect against a number of different things they might save your bike crashing down the track at 100 miles an hour sliding along or more realistically for us it may save your plastics or perhaps some other things from getting dinged up in just like a parking lot tip over or maybe just dump on the bike in your driveway at low speeds Shogun's are perfect for that let me show you why so okay these are cylindrical they're black they're unobtrusive that much is great but these are also designed well for somebody who is going to use their bike primarily on the street notice the length of these sliders well this might not make them the optimal choice for track use what this does do is provide the best chance at protecting inexpensive pieces if you do suffer again one of those parking lot tip overs because they stick out from the bike fairly fairly far there's a good chance these will save some more expensive pieces the other thing I really dig about these two is the ease of installation note this bracket on here this bracket is because these are no cut sliders that means you don't have to hack up your factory fairings in order to install them on some racier items what they'll discount what you'll discover is these things have to be mounted after a hole is put into your pharynx there's only two problems with that first the installation is kind of a pain and secondly you just had to cut a big fat hole in your factory fairings not everybody wants to do that instead with a set of Shogun no cuts what you can do is pop them on your bike usually very quickly and not have to worry about marring up your pretty factory paint so let's talk about our final modification - that's going to be up front here we've got a pues windscreen mounted so this thing looks a little different than our factory screen fairly obviously there is a tint to this so yes it does look cool but one of the other things you may notice visually it's a bit different are these hips you can see located in the windscreen these are really helpful for wind management no one remember this is a race replica bike these things are designed to manage wind it's super high speeds but again being that were zipping around the street we might not be hitting those speeds I know several of you have probably been on your bike on the highway droning along and you're feeling the wind buffeting your head you're just getting kicked around there well these hips that Poosh integrates into their screen helps kind of move the air just a little bit differently it's going to move some of the air onto your chest and your shoulders spreading it across you but then it's going to give you a nice pocket of clean air around your helmet so you don't suffer that buffeting that bobbling that can just be so hard in your neck muscles and really tire you out so you want to spend a little bit longer on your motorcycle and still be comfortable something like a pues windscreen is an easy installation but it also just yields great great benefits now all told the parts we put on here are under eight hundred bucks I think is very reasonable for a fairly late-model sport bike like this one however I recognize some of you guys are probably be willing to throw a little bit more into your bike so we're gonna blow some of this stuff apart I'm going to set this thing up with some more track friendly items let's get their wrenches out [Music] now I've got our bike geared up for track work before some of you dedicated track rats jump in here and say that bikes not prepped for the track let me just come right out and say that we're not talking about how to get to the track right now we're talking about some products that might be a good bang for the buck so we're not going to discuss taping up your headlights remove your mirror safety wiring things instead we're trying to highlight things that will make your track experience a lot better without dropping a ton of coin all at one shot so in the old days it was all about making your bike faster faster faster faster but with the current state of race reps these bikes are already pretty fast you're probably better off trying to get that power to the ground so that's why we installed our first item you can see here we have set a Pirelli Diablo Rosso three tires on this bike now these aren't an inexpensive tire but I still think these as the working man's tire and the reason I say that is that these tires are equally at home on the street as they are on the track a tire that's geared a little bit more for track work has some very distinct advantages first they have a little different profile it's a little bit more aggressive so throwing the bike into a turn is significantly easier than it is with a tire that's more focused on the street the other thing that's cool about a track day tire this one in particular is that this is a dual compound tire what that means is the shoulders have strips of different compound rubber it's a little bit softer so you're gonna get maximum grip when you're at your greatest lean angle that's the sort of thing you need to build confidence and ability and really you know improve your riding at the track now the next modification we made you actually can't see it's under the seat here we installed an anti gravity lithium battery the reason we did that was to kind of help shed some weight so as it mentioned earlier you're not really trying to make your bike go faster that's not the goal but beating weight off the bike can lead to a little bit faster motorcycle but the other reason we love weight loss here at RevZilla is because it also improves your braking and your handling you're improving all three things at once with a minimum of cost now it can be really difficult to beat weight off a bike especially the modern day race replicas but the battery on most bikes is still a good place to save a little bit of weight I've actually got a pair of these batteries here you might be able to see as I'm using these things the difference just in handling because of the large weight difference between them so here's the factory unit bringing it at seven and a half pounds it's pretty significant item this is antigravity though two and a half it's a pretty significant weight reduction for not too much money let's move on to the next modification we made this one actually you know replaces one of the street items we had used you may remember it from the street section we installed a tech spec snakeskin tank pad up top to protect the paint we've switched this out for tech specs see three tank package now this is obviously more tank pads there's five on here there's a lot up top still we also have these ones on the side these are made of a little different material rather than being that heavy thick rubber designed to cushion and absorb impact these are different because they're kind of foamy ER and they're much much tackier the idea here is to grab your leather so you can control the bike easily if you've never ridden a sport bike where that has something like this installed on it it makes it really easy to grab the tank with your knees you really need to control the bike with your lower body in order to keep your upper body free to give steering and throttle and braking inputs something like this is a really easy installation and they're also inexpensive the the amount of a confidence you'll gain by controlling the bike with your lower body really is kind of incredible especially considering the small time and price investment you have on them rounding things out we installed a set of GB racing engine covers this is a full set now you can buy these on a cart or you can also buy them as a set we elected to throw the set on our bike now DB Racing cover is going to serve as an ancillary piece of protection for the sliders we threw on in our street section what these are going to do is actually help other riders as well as helping you it's going to keep the fluids in your bike from hitting the track should you go down keeping other riders riding around the track but one of the other things is going to do two is keep any of the track pieces from winding up inside your motor having something like a GB Racing cover might be the difference between you going down scraping up your covers maybe bashed up your plastics you have to throw a lever and a pedal on there and you're back out on the track for the next session or taking your blown roached motor and wheeling this thing up on the trailer heading home wondering exactly what it is that you have to fix to get your bike back on the road it's cheap insurance and as I had mentioned with a set of frame sliders it really is a great foundation for good protection of your motorcycle you should also be aware - you're going to be spending a fair amount of money on protection for yourself you need to work gear into your equation as well between leathers and a good helmet and some boots you're going to be spending a couple bucks to get out there so we didn't want to make the bike preparation too cray now if you wanting information on any of these products you saw click that info button on your desktop or your mobile device and get familiar with these products a little bit more in depth if you want some personalized attention - we've got plenty of people here at RevZilla who ride both street and track and are more than willing to help you out you can get a hold of us see us at revzilla.com if you want to send us an email or give us a ring on the telling bone eight seven seven seven nine - nine four five five and let me I'm out of here you

Channel: RevZilla

Views: 720,408

Rating: 4.8398552 out of 5

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Id: d5riunMZ1fs

Length: 15min 58sec (958 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 07 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/LeopoldStotch1]

Seems about right.

[u/LucasSatie]

I know they weren't trying to spend a lot of money but there's still a few mods I wish they would have talked about. Steel brake lines or adjustable foot pegs for instance. Hell, how about dialing in the suspension correctly? Doesn't even require swapping parts!

There's lots of others but most are subjective or rider specific: like changing levers, remapping, clip-ons, suspension, brakes, etc...

Overall I think Revzilla did good, but not great. Though I'm not really sure I agree with the battery swap.

[u/Corvetteman85]

100% get some tech spec snake skin tank pads well worth the money and better than stomp grip

[u/ViperThreat]

While talking about the battery, he said "that's a pretty significant weight reduction for not too much money"

That battery costs $200, and you lose 5lbs.

He kinda lost all credibility to me there. I can think of many places i would have invested that $200 that would have been MUCH better.

Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with most of his mods, but I would have prioritized things quite a bit differently.

[u/solitudechirs]

Nothing really new (to me at least) here. Pretty standard mods that most people do on a bike. The one thing I kind of disagree with is the tinted windscreen, there's no reason for it to be tinted. The shape is ergonomic, the tint isn't.

[u/ztherion]

Surprised they didn't talk about suspension, that makes a much bigger difference than an exhaust. And tail tidys can be just as much trouble as they are cool, if your bike relies on that fender to keep road crud in check.

Other than that- pretty decent list, most of that stuff is already on my own bike.

[u/[deleted]]

"Keeping it legal" I like it. No probs with the poopoo

[u/bastion72]

I cannot recommend the Shogun No Cut Frame Sliders.

I had them mounted on my '05 CBR 1000RR. A lady backed into my parked bike and tipped it over causing the bike to fall on the frame slider. The metal offset mount bent and underneath the frame slider was the coolant inlet to the engine, which got crushed, and needed to be replaced. 8 man hours worth of work from the dealer to drop the engine and replace it. Insurance covered it, but would not use them again.

[u/Subtlefart]

Ignore the Lemmy. Not a parody.