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having had enough of scrapeing the mufflers after fitting the 412's i got from oldroadie thought it time to do something about it
i removed the mounts and attacked the with a 54mm holesaw keeping http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=9084&cat=500 as close to the top of the hole as i could
them rotated the piece which was removed 180degrees and welded it back in
at the rear of the muffler i gained a eatra inch clearance no more scrapeing even in the hardest of cornering
Benny
sorry guys carnt work out how to attach pic's their in photopost

That's a very innovative solution, wish I'd thought of it!

Just hope by pulling it up in the back you don't put too much stress on either the head or rear header mounts.I will have to asses that idea for Wendys bike.

Funny you mentioned this...I dropped off a set of hangers with Dale (Specialty Spares) last week. He wanted to look at them and see what he could come up with.

I rode yesterday and today and have not scraped again since I stiffened up the rear suspension. I have the bike dropped with 412 (11.5") in the rear and the front dropped 1" in the front. But again...I’m not an aggressive rider.

Post pics after you get them installed. Id like to see how it looks.

thanks Ed
i'll have to work out how to do that
Dog:i dont think it puts any more stress on the header i mounted the pipes befor tighting the clamp on to the header
Zmilin:when i get home later in the week i'll post another pic showing them fitted

sorry it took so long folks the pic's are in my photopost http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=9120&ppuser=2848
thats after the lift to the mounts
http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=7907&ppuser=2848
thats befor i altered the mounting brackets

Here you go buddy:
after:



before:

at the risk of repeating myself
ED thank you seems i said that earlier today
i followed the directions on how to do it must be suffering operator error syndrome
ok Ed again thank you i'm off to catch some zzz's 11.30 here looking forward to a sleep in,in the morning bein sunday and all
goodnight

Hey Dog
5000k's later still no trouble
went for a 300k ride today with my 95kg son on the back screwed the preload right up mind you still no scrapeing mind you i did manage to scrape the front pegs more then usual tho

cool. keep the greasy side down.