Question For Dallara

[Monstaman]

Heya Dallara

Was following Doon the other day on his black moped and noticed his Quat D (the same as yours) getting what appeared to be very close to the ground at the cat/pipe connection spring.

Have you had passengers on your bike with punting it along and have you had any touchdowns?

When I ride with my wife we tend not to hold anyone up at all so I just wondered if you had any scraping while using the bike in anger.

Lemme know, cheers man.

[Dallara]

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Originally Posted by Monstaman

Heya Dallara

Was following Doon the other day on his black moped and noticed his Quat D (the same as yours) getting what appeared to be very close to the ground at the cat/pipe connection spring.

Have you had passengers on your bike with punting it along and have you had any touchdowns?

When I ride with my wife we tend not to hold anyone up at all so I just wondered if you had any scraping while using the bike in anger.

Lemme know, cheers man.

Wow. Never heard of that...

To tell you the truth I have never carried a passenger on my Hyper. I've got a couple of other bikes that are much better for that, so I have never even thought about using the Hyper for two-up duty.

I think I ride mine pretty briskly... I go through rear Corsa III's in 1,500 miles, and I have ridden it on some of the twistiest roads in the state of Texas - up in the Texas Hill Country and out in Big Bend - and I have never touched any part of my Quat-D pipe down. Some of the roads out in Big Bend, like the infamous "River Road" FM-170. Last October it was in a poor state due to flooding that had ravaged the surface, and it was much more like a semi-paved moto-cross track than anything else, with some monumental chuck holes, broken pavement, etc. Even on that road, often severely bottoming the suspension, the pipe never touched down.

Now that said, I run the rear shock up pretty stiff and the rear ride height up fairly high, too, so maybe that has something to do with it...

And I have ridden with numerous buddies who have been behind me and none have ever mentioned the pipe getting close to touching down.

One thing, my Quat-D doesn't use the stock cat. It is a complete exhaust system, header pipes and all.

Now you've got me wondering...

Hope this helps!

Dallara


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[Monstaman]

Cheers for that, it may have a bit more to go room wise and Doon was cranking into it but it looked close.

Both out bike have the forks level with the top triple, rear dropped by maybe 10 mm at most so I woulda thought it would have plenty of room.

And yeap Doons is the full system too which is the direct comparo, maybe put a titanuim slider on it then and make wonderful colours on a rigt hand turn

Anyone else with Quat D wonna chime in, welcome all input.

Cheers Dallara

[Da_Bull]

Here's my input:

[desmoworks]

I like that input!

[dave2riff]

Originally Posted by Da_Bull

Here's my input:

Actually, those Arrows are an _output_, but looks good anyway...

BTW, which clutch cover is that?

[Monstaman]

Originally Posted by Da_Bull

Here's my input:

Typical ... always someone with one of those cheap plastic red ones

(they do look good tho)

I have fallen for the stumpy look unfortunately, shame cos the Zard headers are very nicely made.