THIS MONTH I HAVE MOSTLY BEEN… “Living life loud!”
Being KTM’s official exhaust it seemed only right to go with one, and if you get a KTM dealership to stick it on it’s ready in no time, as I found out to my delight. I opted for a slip-on end can which meant my bike didn’t need any pricey dyno time to get the thing remapped – it was literally a plug and play scenario. It’s made a good amount of difference, too. Not least of all to the noise that’s kicked out, which now resembles an angry Rottweiler instead of a three week old puppy.
This story is from the December 2017 edition of Fast Bikes.
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