There's a few GSX-R owners here ...

For me undeerseat exhausts are nothing but a fashion thing and often very uncomfortable for passenger or rider due to heat.

I do not like single sided exhausts at all. Yeah I know I am odd. A twin set up like that on the latest Aprilia Mille's is really sweet.

But that Akro stubby is a very nice piece of kit indeed. Sometimes you just cannot get equivalent to top kit by rummaging around in bargain basement.

Worth every penny in my mind as Akro are always so well made as well.

You're definitely right about them being made well - one of the things I noticed was that a lot of other exhausts struggle to look like they fit there, you can see a lot of the pipework/etc and it looks kind of uncovered. Akrapovic have done a really nice job of making it fit where the original was (as mentioned earlier). I'll post a few pics when I've got it anyway - I haven't seen a single pic of the carbon fibre version anywhere on the net yet!

I notice on the picture on the website that they have removed the big black box (which I presume is the catalytic convertor?) and replaced it with a pipe therefore I assume that they show a 'full system' on that pic on the website.

It does look really nice in the pic and I (again!) assume that the slip on will retain the cat? Will it fit so well and look so good? I'm not trying to say it will look cr@p cos I still think it will look good but would it be worth saving up and shelling out for a full system rather than going for a slip-on that may not fit so well?

Cheers,
Matt

As far as I am aware, the slip on systems remove the cat. When I bolted my Laser one one, the whole cat come off. The attachment point for slip ons is actually under the engine.

To be honest, I don't think you could fit that Akro can on with the original cat in place.

Matt - rigor's right, if you see what you actually get you can't fit it with the cat still there. I don't think they'd want you cutting the cat either.

I've been keeping it from all of you but there are a few more bits of info available from the Akrapovic web site - try http://www.akrapovic-exhaust.com/mai...oduct-news.htm or more specifically http://www.akrapovic-exhaust.com/mai...00-2007_SO.pdf - if you look at the pictures you'll see that it does indeed remove the cat

Unfortunately I can't see the pictures on the website? Although it may be the work computer not letting me!

However, so long as the slip on system does remove the cat and therefore it looks like it does in the picture then that's cool - looks really good.

I'd be v tempted to get one of those - removing the cat should free up a few ponies as well shouldn't it? Hopefully without the need for a remap!

Let us know how it goes muffles - are you going to fit it yourself?

Cheers,
Matt

PS - Muffles, I don't know if you're thinking of fitting a screen but I had a black DB zero gravity screen fitted to my bike when it had its first service last week and it's brilliant. Looks cool, great fit and deflects a lot more breeze. I can highly recommend one.

Which link did you try? The first is a link to their new products page - there's a few links on that page to various new things, one (actually more than one) which links to the exhaust.

The second link is a PDF - but depends which Adobe Acrobat you have installed (didn't work for me on 5.0 on Windows, but works for me on 5.0 on Linux? odd...). That's basically the spec + description for the slip-on

Re: the screen, I'm a tart I know but I don't like the look of double bubbles (hence never had one on the SV) - when I see the side on view it just makes it more sit-up than sporty. But, a friend of mine (same bike) has one and I have to say, from the rider's viewpoint it looks awesome! And in dark black too...luverly
Luckily I've not really had any issues with wind blast on either the SV or this (tested up to 126 mph, private road occifer).

On a completely unrelated note, I saw in another thread that you've taken pillion on the GSX-R (I think)? how did you find it, compared to the SV? I've not yet taken a pillion on the GSX-R but will be, and I wonder how it compares. I'm mainly thinking slow-speed control will be that much more difficult (since it is for me anyway, compared to solo riding on the SV).

Oh and yup- going to fit it myself. I'll post some pics when it's here + on, be a while though!

I'm gonna jump in here as well (Black Gixxer owners R Us )

I found taking a pillion was not much fun at all. The weight is so far back and up that the bike felt unstable at low speed. Not to bad when moving along, although Sam felt she was moving around too much under acceleration and braking (At one point she did join me on the front seat, braking for some lights). She also found that her feet were very high, due to the pegs.

She basically said she wasn't going pillion on the bike again, unless she had to. And she enjoyed riding it far to much too enjoy being a passenger

As for the screen, at the moment I'm looking at an SR series Zero Gravity in dark tint. The SR ones are just copies of the shape of the standard screen, and like you, I don't think the DB ones look quite right. In fact, I'm probably going to order a bunch of stuff for mine tonight ....

Originally Posted by rigor

In fact, I'm probably going to order a bunch of stuff for mine tonight ....

Oh really !!!

As James said Pillion is no fun on the GSXR i had nowhere to hold on and hate holding on to the rider, as a rider myself i hate being held on to as i don't have freedom to move and it also feels unsafe... i like to be attached to the bike. Pillion pegs are too high to feel comfortable and after putting my weight through them in braking and accelerating it left my thighs and hips with cramp. every bump in the road you can feel and it feels as though you are going to be thrown over the riders head if he hits one too fast. And once or twice i slid forward onto the rider seat leaving James in quite a bit of pain.

Plus after riding the GSXR myself i don't want to be pillion again lol i want one of my own hehehe, but the sv will have to do for me for at least another year.

As for the exhaust i'm not too keen on the Akro stubby will have to have a look in the flesh so to speak. The Laser is sweet (in the cool sense not the cute meaning hehehe and yes i am biased) it sounds lovely and will look the nuts after James gets round to fitting the black cover back on the underside of it. I think stubby can's suit different bikes... imho the sv shouldn't have a stubby as it will just look wrong what they have done with the GSXR works and if there was an aftermarket can that looked like the suzuki standard then that would work for me

Of course opinion irrelivant as i don't have a GSXR..... yet hehehehe