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Exhaust and fire
I'm about to install my new MTC exhaust on my Tenere. You might have found that I have asked more than a few questions about heat and fire before buying it. But that is simpy because I have had bad luck in the past.
My first motorcycle was a small 150ccm Aprilia Leonardo which I mostly used arround town. I had bought some cheap saddlebags from Louis. But they did'nt survive the first longer trip with my girlfriend. After ~150km I saw an orange glow in the mirror. The right saddlebag was on fire and when we stopped the flames was level with the top of the luggage box. I pushed/yelled my girlfriend of the scooter (she had'nt noticed what was going on) and I teared the luggage off and stamped out the fire. The right blinker was also on fire and I put it out with my gloved hand. I was lucky. The only damage to the scooter a slightly heat damaged plastic panel and right blinker which burned with the saddlebag and (incl. my girlsfriends clothes - my own stuff was in the other side :-). Before we took off I had checked that there was at least 5cm between the bag and the exhaust but it must have moved ... I don't have pictures of the fire itself. I had other priorities than taking pictures... Here is first two pictures of the burned blinker. About 1/3 of it is just gone up in the flames. The bulb did not survive the heat. I managed to get it working for the ride home - I just put in a new bulb and kept it in place with silicone. Btw we got married later the same year and has been so for 17 years :-) When i bought my XTZ750 Super Tenere in 2006 it had a race exaust that Ii changed for a used original one before I could get it registered in my name. I rode with that for a few years and then bought another original ones because it had startles to rattle... When the second one was worn out I fell for a GPR road legal exhaust. The price was right and it looked fine on it... But shortly after i found that I hat a head issue. This time it was without a fire but it had just melted the lamp....I took the easy way out and fitted som mini ones that was just our of the warm exhaust gasses... So just a reminder to pay attention when fitting after market exhausts - The exhaust can be so hot that it can set plastic on fire and the exhaust gasses can also melt/ignite flammable materials
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I think you've done the best thing with your super ten by making even a minor frame to stop the panniers touching. I'd never trust a pannier touching some hot/warm for any great length of time
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I bought a new rack from Kedo and it dit not fit. I could'nt figure out if it was by motorcycle that was bend or the rack that was badly made. So i found a guy ~200km from home with an older rack that worked and rode down there. Then it was obvius that one side was identical to his but the other was clearly not. So i send it back to Kedo that send it back to Hepco + Becker that stated that there was nothing wrong with the rack - there were iso certified and did not make any errors - arrogant sons of *****es. When Kedo got it back the got their hands on another super tenere and concluded that the rack could be bend into shape so that both sides was about level ... In the mean time i had bought a used rack on ebay (that was level on both sides and just wanted my money back) PS I stille have the pictures that document what crap hepco+becker made at the time - i can only guess that they have updated their rig and mixed the old/new version of it since one side was clearly identical to the two older versions (two - the one the i rode 400km to test and the other i bought off ebay) while the other cases a 2,5cm difference in height ! My order was 17. April and in the end the complaint was closed in the middle of August (of which H+B spent 80 days to look it) then another dane bought the rack that had then been modified by Kedo to fit. Long rant but in the end i rode arround 120.000km with the junior cases - that were 10 years old when i bought them... But since the issues with the rack i've steared away from Hepco & Becker products. Why th f**k they they just did'nt say - sorry we made a mistake and will correct the rack entead of insisting that rack was just fine ....
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