Thursday afternoon I re-jetted the carbs on my Scrambler, replacing the factory 110's with 118's, and pulled the snorkel off. Then Friday night I removed the TORS I bought a couple of weeks ago and replaced them with a pair of Norman Hyde Togas that I got an outrageous deal on.
Saturday morning a buddy of mine brought his box-stock Scrambler over, which is nearly a twin to mine- we've both had the 500 mile service done in the last 3 weeks. We installed the TORS on his bike with no other changes. After a quick test run to make sure everything on his bike was fine and the A/F ratio was good, we took off for a (hot) afternoon ride.
About two miles into the ride we ended up at a stop light, all alone. You can guess what happened when we got a green.
I didn't get off the line all that well, but I was watching my buddy in the mirror through the first three gears and I couldn't believe how fast I was pulling away from him. I figured he either got a worse start than I did, or wasn't pulling off the line with everything he could, but that wasn't the deal...he said he was on it for everything it had and my bike just walked away like he was standing still.
The changes to my Scrambler have been made in pieces, so while I figured I was picking up some real-world performance gains, yesterday was proof that they were real.
The downside is that now I've seen the light...and I'm already looking at making additional mods to get even more power out of this bike.
Saturday morning a buddy of mine brought his box-stock Scrambler over, which is nearly a twin to mine- we've both had the 500 mile service done in the last 3 weeks. We installed the TORS on his bike with no other changes. After a quick test run to make sure everything on his bike was fine and the A/F ratio was good, we took off for a (hot) afternoon ride.
About two miles into the ride we ended up at a stop light, all alone. You can guess what happened when we got a green.
I didn't get off the line all that well, but I was watching my buddy in the mirror through the first three gears and I couldn't believe how fast I was pulling away from him. I figured he either got a worse start than I did, or wasn't pulling off the line with everything he could, but that wasn't the deal...he said he was on it for everything it had and my bike just walked away like he was standing still.
The changes to my Scrambler have been made in pieces, so while I figured I was picking up some real-world performance gains, yesterday was proof that they were real.
The downside is that now I've seen the light...and I'm already looking at making additional mods to get even more power out of this bike.
