Aprilia Pegaso Strada…mini review

[rictus01]

Had my eye appointment at the hosp today, so my sight is a bit blurry, and supposed to be a rest day, but done a couple of bits

12v socket added



chopped the airbox snorkel



Oh and the nice clean silver pipes I did last week are already turning a gold colour...



Cheers Mark

[rictus01]

spend so far

£1500 - bike purchase
£23 - foot peg
£9 - 12v socket
£77 - high seat
£298 - Mivv race cans
£33 - K&N air filter
£9.99 - iridium plug

total = £1,949.99

[rictus01]

Pipes turned up today, fitted in about 35-40 minutes, sound nice with the baffles in, sounds like soneone punching you in the face with them out....













And here's some video, not that the sound does it justice, but hey....

from standard to race baffled

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...50836182294135

From baffled to unbaffled is still loading so I'll edit that in shortly.

update, here's the baffle in/out video.

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/...type=2&theater

Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

After a few hours this morning I decided the open pipes were just too much, fortunately I had a pair of DEVIL baffles which are a bigger bore than the Mivv ones, I've fitted them, the result, well about 2/3 of the noise and a slightly less harsh sound, but still pretty meaty though, and of course it looks more compliant then just open pipes, I'll get some pics tomorrow to show the difference.

Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

right from this (open pipes)



to this (Devil baffles fitted)



and here's the comparison between the two baffles.



Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

well it's been a little while now and nearly 3,000 miles, so what have I found, well the bike is far more sophisticated than I'd initially though, logic circuits for the indicators (to turn them off) and even a voltage sensing to let you know if a single one of the 20 (4 x5) LED's blows, adjusted the CO setting (this acts like a mixture screw, for want of a better explanation), has a 10,000 kilometer service interval, all the service stuff is mega simple, for instance it has proper "rockers" adjusted like the worm drive on the SV clutch, I still haven't been able to get it to drink less than 56mpg and without really going for a mega economy run got 63mpg, the suspension seems to be just about spot on for me, short of taking the fork caps off to check the oil condition; I've no plan or need to do anything else, new set of Storm Ultra's fitted (make a world of difference), my pillion topbox is wonderfully comfortable and I've added some padding to raise the lower seat to the same height as the new one as well, should be getting a rack for it at the weekend just to add to the usability, performace is enough and it's just so much fun (and easy) to ride, even two up it seems to make no difference, On my personal runway (yes it's still following me around) it sat nicely at 90-100 mph with two on it, the only notable difference to solo riding was a little more effort on the brakes, but that was all.

So still having fun, which is the point really....:P

Cheers Mark

[rictus01]

I know topboxes aren't deemed cool or trendy, but they are useful, and given the twin high level cans, panniers are problematic (but I'm working on that), anyway I got a rack really cheap and it came with another 48 ltr box, pretty basic, but I've reinforced the base, added a back rest,the lock hook, a high level brake light and this evening a automatic interior light.

not bad for a total cost of nothing but what I had laying about.

Cheers Mark

[NTECUK]

When's the arm rests ,coffee maker and tv going in?

[rictus01]

coffee maker is a meths stove in my camping gear, the rest is just silly, bikes are for riding, anything that aids that is a good thing, I've done 4 camping trips this year and another three planned, these economic modification are useful and cheap, perhaps to someone else as well who doesn't have money to burn , I'll leave channel selection to someone more experienced in that sort of thing....

Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

Oh as I was asked, the led strip would cost about £3, the switch £1, the lead perhaps £5 (although mine is a cury cord to a permenent live 12v socket under the seat, you could wire direct to the battery to save money if needed, I just prefer being able to remove the box easily), all the bits I had around and about so my cost was only a little effort, but even buying new under a tenner total.

Cheers Mark.