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@Texas2Tires, I have almost your same bike (2022 R1250R) and I'm considering removing the DB killers on my Akrapovic as well. Let me know what you find from your research!

Staying organized is one of my specialties… Lolol. Glad you liked the vid

Very happy I did it, stock sounds awful in my opinion. It’s a much deeper more pleasant sound but not obnoxiously loud, I’m very comfortable riding through my neighborhood early in the morning knowing I’m not upsetting my neighbors. 10/10 would recommend if you have this Akra slip on

@@goldnmoto383 thank you for getting back to me. After spending 1500 cad on the exhaust only for it to be quiet as stock im not happy. Going to drill out the db killers tho so wanted to make sure. Thanks again

@@chrissahlstrom8939 Absolutely! Good luck on it, I’m pretty confident you’ll enjoy the sound way more after you pull them

Thanks! Yea I was very disappointed with what the Akra sounds liked stock, like you said very “Dyson-esque”. Definitely sounds better with the baffles cut out but still no where near what a true free flow sounds like. Weight is the other issue, it’s shocking how much that Akra weighs when part of the leading advertisement for it is how much weight you’ll save. I’ll likely be switching to a Yoshi in the near future when I do the Rottweiler intake

Life got in the way unfortunately... Got everything recorded though just need to finish the edits, hoping to be done in the next week or two. Thanks for the interest though man, stay tuned!

​@@goldnmoto383next week? bro, a year passed, you still alive? 💀

No, I believe the only way to do that would be to cut the header open with a grinder, cut out the catalyzer, then weld the header back shut. Lot of work and I don’t have a welder. I would not consider this system obnoxiously loud with the dB killers removed, but that’s just an opinion…

Always good to meet another SAR rider! Love these bikes. They are aftermarket tires but came with it, I bought it used at about 1,200 miles and the previous owner had put them on. Check out my other video on removing the baffles from the Akra exhaust, sounds WAYYY better and it’s not a terribly hard to do.

Cool will do! Ya definitely my favorite bike to date. Are you getting any glitches? I've had my fuel gauge not read right after a fill one time. And I had a hard start twice where it didnt want to turn over

@@chrissahlstrom8939 a couple little ones here and there. I’ve had the gas gauge issue where the gauge didn’t show it had filled even though the range meter showed the range of a full tank, that reset itself after like half an hour though. Hard starts every now and then if it was really cold the night before. Quick shifter acting weird once or twice…. Other than that not really anything noteworthy. Just crossed 11,000 miles on it a few days ago and going strong!

Oh wow. Looks like weve had the same issues. Good to hear shes running strong. I have no doubt the bike will last a long time other then the few glitches here and there

It had 1,200 on the clock the day I picked it up. Literally didn’t even have any stone chips on the skid plate and all the bar code stickers were still all over it from the factory. Bike hadn’t even gotten wet yet. If you had told me that it was brand new never ridden the day I picked it up I would have believed you lol, super clean

@@goldnmoto383 Yeah, the airbox and throttles showed it was basically new.

@@lesgarten yup, they looked fresh out of the box for sure. I’ve put about 5,000 miles on it since that video, lot more color on there now lol

Thanks! No issues at all. Just got back from a 1,000 trip through Vermont and she ran flawlessly. Still back and forth on whether I’m going to do any tuning, if I do I’ll likely go with a Bren Tuner for both my Super Duke and Super Adventure. I’ve run Power Commanders on a few bikes before and want to try something new.

There’s no catalytic converter in the muffler. That’s in the header pipe. A few people have done it and posted videos but it’s quite a bit of work and requires you to cut into and then reweld the pipe. For a couple hundred bucks you can just buy a stainless header without a Cat

Lol some nice shiny chrome headers

Just posted it!!! And added a list of products in the description this time lol

@@goldnmoto383 thanks!

Thanks!

They’re Cycra Probends

Nope, I did not cover the holes and there’s no burning. Ridden a couple hundred miles like this now without a problem

@@goldnmoto383 Ok thanks for the answer and the video offcourse.

@@GameplayTubeHD absolutely, we have a lot of longer rides planned this summer I’m going to be making videos for, if there is an issue with the holes I’ll definitely include that in a video.

@@goldnmoto383 I already removed the DB killers today. So I gonna test it to.

@@GameplayTubeHD great, hope the video helped!

Yup, it’s crazy they charge so much for these things and advertise “huge weight reduction and improved sound”… if you close your eyes they sound exactly the same. We put a Yoshi Heptaforce on my dads SAR and it sounds sooooooo much better than the Akra, weighs half as much, costs half as much, and looks twice as good. If I smash this Akra that’s what I’m going to replace it with. Glad you enjoyed the video!

There’s really not THAT much exhaust flow even with that stupid little pilot hole opened up, whacking the throttle open there’s probably only 25% of what’s coming out of the bottom pipe. Rode it for an hour the other day and the turn signal was barely warm. And if it does melt when we get into some hot summer days it will just give me an excuse to swap the ugly stock signals for some fancy ones too.

That is a fantastic idea, I absolutely hate this current knob, honestly my biggest complaint with the bike. Seems like even with gloves it’s an pain in the ass to adjust. Ordering one this weekend.

​ @GoldnMoto The part reference number is 60708008053B2 Here over my side of the pond, they cost 6€ each.

Good man, thanks! That is shockingly cheap for a KTM part…

Also, can you add the links for the products in the video description?

Hell yea, double digits!! Appreciate the comment man, glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Always great to meet another SA rider, favorite bike I’ve ever ridden.

Yea that’s probably a pretty good idea to do huh? Thanks for the suggestion, still trying to really dial in everything to include on these videos. I’ll go back through and add them to the videos this weekend.

I’d definitely be interested in what the dB meter shows. We just put a Yoshimura heptaforce on my dad’s 1290 SAR and it sounds WAYYYY better than my Akra, even with the baffles removed. Don’t have actual quantitative data on the noise differences though, just what the ears report

Thanks man! Whole lot more coming

Hahahaha nothing better than a free flowing tailpipe!

Yes

Can you put then back once they are removed like this?

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Thanks man! Great to meet another SAR rider, these bikes are so damn cool. Been building another 2020 SAR for my dad for about a year now, put the Lone Rider bags on his, great luggage. Glad to hear you're back on two wheels after wrecking your GS, hell of a thing to go through. Definitely agree on your comparison of the two, I bleed orange so the decision was basically already made for me. This is my third bike with an LC8 in it, can't get enough