Description:

For the final pot of the great mighty bandit gives up plenty of cheap aftermarket alternatives. MOTORCYCLE tested 13 aluminum and stainless steel pots for retrofitting.


Strong displacement motorcycles, the statutory provisions noise usually only if they are equipped with mufflers that work on the reflection principle and vary accordingly large. This opinion at least, seem to be the vehicle manufacturer. The Suzuki Bandit 1250 / S is a typical example. The manufacturers of retrofit systems rely mostly on the other hand, shock absorption, their construction, can be much leaner and therefore prettier than alterna-tive popular with many Bandit owners are. Another reason for the poor sound Umrüstwillen the original system. Powerful watercraft may in the opinion of their owners and powerful sound – ideally, within the legal framework. This is to ensure the EC type-approval (EC-BE), which receive only muffler, an exhaust and noise levels are legal. That Accessories Noise is usually significantly lighter than the original exhaust and fail often cost much less, makes it also interesting.

MOTORCYCLE invited 13 aftermarket cheap models in the variants of aluminum and stainless steel to a great comparison test. All the candidates come out without a catalyst, as it lies at the bandit in the collector under the engine and not the conversion is concerned. The test criteria include the following:

Processing (10 points):
Improper welding seams, protruding, or sharp or burred Endröhrchen clips are poor quality and may lead to point deduction.

Fit / Installation (15 points):
How easily can be mounted around the muffler? If the fit at the pipe joints and on the holders? Are many small parts to assemble or meet a few steps for growing? How many tools do you need? A self-explanatory instructions put in only a few manufacturers. Particularly quickly and easily can be mounted in the one-piece Shark Conic-muffler. Considerably more difficult is the whole, the Ixil, which provided for the main stand-velocity, the lower strut clamp must be removed.

Weight (15 points):
Each saved kg improves the power weight of the bandit. Although it is not really in the 1250s on every gram, but a lighter muffler has not harmed any motorcycle. All tested accessories-pots are between two and four kilos lighter than the 6.5-kilogram-Serie Trumm.

Peak performance (30 points):
As well, the test facility is in food? Loses the pot even valuable accessory to the HP series? Performance gains of 20 hp as in the 1200s Bandit models that were in the 1990s, still choked on the exhaust to 98 hp, are possible by the installation of a retrofit damper no longer with the Bandit 1250th With over six hp more power than the original system of Leovince Rear-lies in the standings. At about ten horsepower loss leads to the cultivation of the models of GPR and Ixil.