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Is anyone having issues with these pipes bending. I had a Platinum 2 and crashed with it but it was a nose dive type crashed but the pipe was bent into the frame and creased pretty bad where it starts into the expansion chamber. I ordered another one, this one a Platinum 1 (thinner metal but basically the same pipe) Got it last week and raced last weekend on it. Got the bike back to the house to wash it and the pipe was bent the very same way the other pipe was bent. Pushed into the frame on the left side and creased badly where its starts the expansion. Well this time the bike never hit the ground and made no contact with any other bike or object, I know this for a fact. The only thing I can think of is (I Wish) that around the corners the bike was getting low enough that it was hitting the ground or rut or whatever. Pipes should not be bending by bar dragging as I had been running the stock pipe for several months with absolutely no bending.
Anyone have any input or fix. Pipes are expensive and this will be my third one that I will probably switch if its going to happen again but the Pro Circuit pipe is by far the best pipe for the YZ smoker.
Anyone have any input or fix. Pipes are expensive and this will be my third one that I will probably switch if its going to happen again but the Pro Circuit pipe is by far the best pipe for the YZ smoker.
I tried a PC pipe and shorty on my bike. Didn't like it as much as the FMF setup. Everyone will tell you the PC has less bottom and mid than FMF but awesome top end. To me, it definitely had less bottom and mid but the top wasn't as much better as I was expecting it to be. And I just didn't like the "feel" of how it came on. It had a weird sound compared tot he FMF, almost a chainsaw buzz sound that made the bike seem ratty. The extra top end it had was only the extreme over-rev. Way up high where it would only be used on really big tracks or big hills. Kind of a waste on most usual sized tracks unless you are a real revver that only uses 2nd and 3rd gear.
But its all about preference and if you are happy with the power of the FMF, that's all that matters. I actually wish the FMF had the mid to top numbers of the PRO Circuit cause we would have NEVER switched.
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