Just installed my new beautiful Scorpion Headers on the Thruxton R. So worth the wait, I thought the second time removing the cat would be easy and I was wrong. I feel sorry for my frame, but love the outcome.
The "kink" looks much better in person thankfully. To my eye it had that bend put in for cornering clearance as it is identical per side and right where the bike hits the ground at full lean. I would prefer to keep my exhaust from dragging in corners. Not to be personal, but I can never get enough kink in my life anyway so I kind of like it.
I will get a sound clip, currently running stock slip-ons and planning am upgrade so i can get the comparison recorded. The set-up sounds mild at idle and partial throttle, but when you open things up the sound is beautiful. Once I decide on the right silencer (loudener) I'll post that up.
Here's the latest update. The Scorpion headers and that odd bend mentioned above limit cornering clearance by a noticeable margin. I was following my best friend on his 2016 Thruxton R, trying to take it fairly easy because of the odd front brake lever feel I have due to air in the a.b.s. (I need to admit this is 8/10s pace) when the tow slider than the peg are dragging in a tight decreasing radius right hander. I shifted a bit more weight into the corner to keep the bike more upright and leaned just a bit more, the header firmly impacted the ground and lifted the front wheel from the tarmac. This is my first road crash in the past 16 years with over 100k miles on sport and adventure bikes. This would not have happen with the stock headers in place, I've folded that peg up in corners before and never touched another part of the bike to the ground. What I learned; the Scorpion headers limit ground clearance noticeably, get that weird initial brake lever feel bled out at the dealer as you cannot do it I your own, for God's sake wear your knee sliders on spirited rides, d30 is as good as people say on absorbing energy and saving your human parts when you hit the ground.
