I just bought a TLR!!!!!

[bigwill]

YES!!! get in, finally found a minter that was in my price range!
14,000 on the clock, w reg, mint condition! £3k! and yes, that nasty luggage rack will be taken off!!

I want to know if you guys know of any nessicary mods that will improve my new beast. I see that a lot of people change the shocks and the dampner to the Ohlins ones, how much difference does this make and is it really worth the massive cost?

Also i know of the TRE that you can buy for these to de restrict the power, how much difference does this make also? i know they are cheap enough and easy enough to put on the bike but as a new TL rider im not sure if it is needed this early on.. what you you think?

I have got some Viper road legal cans already lined up as they are nice n cheap and LOUD!

anything else you can think of that would make it better, please let me know (and none of this...."buy a gixer" bollocks )
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2006 Yamaha FZ1 - the comfy R1

[Timmeh]

Good stuff dude.

Hope you have fun with all that silly rotary damper and other TL design silliness.
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GSXR400 x2 | '94 RVF400 | '93 TZR125 4DL (again)
20:22:30 BLUEX5: i would love to be forced to undergo a**l plugging with different sizes
20:48:18 Temeluchus: comp you hunk of smouldering homos3x you

[bigwill]

nah it aint got the rotary dampner mate, its just got the monoshock one on.
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2006 Yamaha FZ1 - the comfy R1

[Mr Nice Guy]

If the cans are road legal, they wont be loud enough ...big twins HAVE to be ostentatiously LOUD.


Its in the bible.
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Suzuki GSX-R750K4 ~ Mivv GP

[doggone]

When I first had one it nearly chucked me off by stalling at junctions.
- you soon get used to it, use a few more revs than you think you need to set off.

[Dalemac]

woohoo tlr!

love them bikes.

best thing to do is take the existing cans to pieces and rip out all the baffles and shit.

My friend has a tlr and a crf450 and its hard deciding which is the loudest.

he also took the airbox cover off, something to do with ram air?

Dale
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YBR125 -> GPZ500S -> SL1000

[Scouse]

Nice bike

Is that where the front indicators normally are? Never noticed before.

[Wave2k]

Get rid of the Rotary rear damper to make the bike handle as it should.
Also standard TLR exhausts are stupidly heavy.
But they are great bikes to ride and enjoy it .
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Ducati 1299 Panigale
2009 Corvette C6 z51
RS125->CBR400->RXS100->GSXR750K2->Ducati749S->CBR600RR5->TL1000R->DRz400->RSVR1000->Honda VTR SP1->CBR400->GSXR1000K6->Honda H100->CBR600RR3->Ducati1299

[Proview]

wow lovley bike 3k
im so jealous out here you dont realy see bigger bikes only stupid little 50s
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Aerox R 50cc 2008 ,Aerox RR 2002, Mbk Nitro 2001, Beta RRT Elf racing series ,1989 Beta trueba Needs fixing
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Gonna wrap a teatowel around the lid nextime..y'know for relgious reasons

[Dav1son]

Get the cans and a TRE on as a starter.
Tillers owners some times do an airbox mod which increases air flow by removing the actuators.
mine only has a TRE and Arrow cans and a good pair of tyres (CorsaIII). It still even has the rotary damper on as i have had no problems with it.

oh and i just replaced my OEM front brakes with Wavey ones, and there is so much improvement its untrue.

Have fun with it
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Future: ....
Present: GSXR-750 L0
Past: ZX10R C2H, TL1000R, CBR400 NC29, GPR50RR/RS50

[St0rmer66]

He already said it's the version with a monoshock so that's fine . Just needs some loud exhausts then! If you're on a budget try something like www.fuelexhausts.co.uk. That TRE and a double bubble screen and it will be sorted. NEVER take the hump off unless you're definitely taking a pillion, it looks terrible without it!
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:: Honda XR 125 L ('53) => Kawasaki GPZ 500S ('02) => Suzuki SV650S ('00) => Aprilia RSV-R ('51) ::

[Wave2k]

[Dav1son]

thats all well and good wave2k but i cant afford to change it

what i ment was that it isnt that terrible that i must change it.
well i might after a new arai, leathers and a PC3
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Future: ....
Present: GSXR-750 L0
Past: ZX10R C2H, TL1000R, CBR400 NC29, GPR50RR/RS50

[Wave2k]

it will make more difference than a PCIII and should be able to find one second hand for that.

Id always take a good suspention set up over a Powercommander.

If i sell my TLR soon, ill probably strip the goodies off it.

Harris rearsets, ohlins shock and damper, full yoshi the lot
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Ducati 1299 Panigale
2009 Corvette C6 z51
RS125->CBR400->RXS100->GSXR750K2->Ducati749S->CBR600RR5->TL1000R->DRz400->RSVR1000->Honda VTR SP1->CBR400->GSXR1000K6->Honda H100->CBR600RR3->Ducati1299

[Dav1son]

[Wave2k]

awsome, or you could buy the whole bike for 2500
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Ducati 1299 Panigale
2009 Corvette C6 z51
RS125->CBR400->RXS100->GSXR750K2->Ducati749S->CBR600RR5->TL1000R->DRz400->RSVR1000->Honda VTR SP1->CBR400->GSXR1000K6->Honda H100->CBR600RR3->Ducati1299

[Dav1son]

[McJamweasel]

It's alright, a bit fat though.
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BCF: Be yourself, just don't be an arse.

[bigwill]

[The Goat]

i like it, im a big fan of TLR's enjoy it dude, oh replace the cans Yoshi ftw if you can afford it, and ohlins well worth the money as wave said.

[Wave2k]

Look at that Apex , alot harder to do when you have a completly crap suspention set up as i found out when i approached the same corner on Bendys CBR600 and went incredibly wide.
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Ducati 1299 Panigale
2009 Corvette C6 z51
RS125->CBR400->RXS100->GSXR750K2->Ducati749S->CBR600RR5->TL1000R->DRz400->RSVR1000->Honda VTR SP1->CBR400->GSXR1000K6->Honda H100->CBR600RR3->Ducati1299

[bigwill]

great shot man!! hope i can get some of that shit going on with mine some time!!!
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2006 Yamaha FZ1 - the comfy R1

[ms51ves3]

Lovely TLR, I'm not jealous at all

For some reason I just read your username as Bigwilly

[bigwill]

bigwilly? that very kind of you! lol. thanks very much


one other thing that has been bugging me about the TL....

I have been twatting round on my bandit6 for over a year now and the bike is the main source of transport. should i keep the bandit for the shitter months of the year or does people reckon the TL is up to the task? I dont want get the TL as shitty as the bandit has become over this winter, (fucking salty roads). Has anyone got any commuting experience with the TL? what do you think?
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2006 Yamaha FZ1 - the comfy R1

[ljwalker]

nice bike