New Carbon Silencers

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New Carbon Silencers

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Just fitted a pair of full carbon stubby silencers from Lextek...havnt removed the baffles yet but they will be....gotta say they look awesome 🤩🤩
May have a pair if Scorpion stainless oval cans for sale soonImage

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I'd hang on to the Scorpions for a week or two, given Lex Tek's build quality.
You might need something to use while yours are away....
Any bets on how long they last?

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Don't want to burst your bubble but according to the people that know, you shouldn't fit carbon fibre exhaust to a V Twin and secondly you shouldn't fit short exhausts to a V Twin either.
So Tony might just have point.
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I agree they do look awesome 8)

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sirch345 wrote:I agree they do look awesome 8)

Chris.
Cheers Chris....Just gotta remove them baffles now to here it's noise lol

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cheekykev wrote:Don't want to burst your bubble but according to the people that know, you shouldn't fit carbon fibre exhaust to a V Twin and secondly you shouldn't fit short exhausts to a V Twin either.
So Tony might just have point.
According to maker...no probs fitting carbon to a v twin

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cheekykev wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:26 pm Don't want to burst your bubble but according to the people that know, you shouldn't fit carbon fibre exhaust to a V Twin and secondly you shouldn't fit short exhausts to a V Twin either.
So Tony might just have point.
I've had carbon cans on mine with no issues, apparently you can blow them apart if you let the packing go on them, but never seen evidence of it happening on any quality cans!
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Carbon Microns on mine with no probs.
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got a square on rear photo to share?

45 degree rear shot looks just fine. Dark carbon will go nicely with rubber and other blackout bits
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exTRX850 wrote:got a square on rear photo to share?

45 degree rear shot looks just fine. Dark carbon will go nicely with rubber and other blackout bits
Will put rear end pic on

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Still waiting for the carbon hugger to come......Image

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I think they look great
Don’t worry about the carbon. Any problems I’ve heard about were over fifteen years ago now and I’m sure the techniques and the quality has improved since then.

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Cheers For the replies...looks like carbon is okay now......few other picsImageImageImageImage

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Re: New Carbon Silencers

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Nah, they look total Sh1t on a red one, better pass them over to someone on a black one so they dont look out of place.
Oh, yeh i have a black one. I'll cover the postage to take them away form you..... :Ball Kick:

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Ive had carbon on 2 of my bikes with no issues. Would like to know how they sound compared to the likes of Daves £30 ones that made me deaf.
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They look really good. I've got stubby carbon harpoon cans on mine but those hexagonal cans look the business.

Can't really comment about longevity as I've not had the bike long but visually mine look like they've been on a while and are running fine.
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