How to save weight from your motorcycle | Knox Armour

How to save weight from your motorcycle | Knox Armour

Over the last few years we have done a lot of modification work to our motorcycles to improve performance, handling and braking systems. Along the way, we have been weighing everything going onto and off the bikes and in this video we highlight the best and main ways to reduce weight from your motorcycle. While working on our bikes, we didn't find a good resource on motorcycle weight reduction, so thought we'd make our own. Hopefully, this is useful to everyone watching!

When looking at maximising the performance of a motorcycle, weight must be a factor. A lighter bike accelerates quicker, brakes quicker, turns quicker and generally covers up for the fact that most of us are carrying a bit too much weight ourselves!

Read the full article here to see how we can reduce 15-20kg from most sports bikes – https://www.planet-knox.com/how-to-sa...

In short, here is the weight saving list that can be applied to most modern motorcycles:

Race fairings – 5kg
Race Exhaust – 5kg
Lithium Battery – 2.5kg
520 chain and sprockets – 800g.
Mirrors – 1kg
Side stand – 1kg
ABS removal, exhaust servo’s etc – 2-3kg
Total on the list – circa 15-20kg model dependant.

Here are a few links to the products mentioned:
Lightweight lithium battery - https://bikeittrade.com/lipo03a
520 chain and sprockets conversion - http://www.msgracing.co.uk/home/

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KNOX
www.planet-knox.com