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Originally Posted by
steveD
I have mainly had only single cylinder bikes and you cannot get anything below 3K rpm.
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I'm going to disagree with Steve here.
The Tenere does have that horrible piston-slappy-kango-type thing at low revs and I always just accepted it as life. I fitted a DNA (S1 &S2) and a PC-V, still does it at low revs.
However, since ditching the OE can and fitting a nice shiney MTC single can the bike pulls from around 2k nice and even. I put this down to the expert fiting of a tool tube
, or maybe the fact the bike can exhale better now, In any case it is possible to deal with it.
The 14T front, I also have tried one of these, and to be honest I couldn't wait to take it off again. Kev constantly maintains that the key to the 660 motor is to let it breath, and it realy does make a huge difference. I know it's more ��� than a �15 sprocket, but when you take the bike over the 5K rpm mark you will notice a huge drop in MPG.
Tenere Doug and me had similar bike/ride weights, I had the DNA/PC and Doug had the Akrapo's/K&N, but I was still using around a litre of fuel more on a tank full than him - only real differece was the sprocket and the fact I was always running higher revs in the same speed range.
But at the end of the day, we are all different, so if you've found a solution then that's great, as long as
you are happy it doesn't matter about anyone else.