Yesterday I took a break from scooters to trash out my front yard with Halloween inflatables. The black cat is new this year and 20 feet tall. Its head also moves.
Riding home on Saturday, I felt like the bike was getting loud, like a hole in the exhaust. And when I investigated, I confirmed that the Lammy's exhaust has been trying to shake itself to death again. This time, one side of the front mounting bracket and my homemade silencer bracket had both failed, and the joint from the silencer to the pipe had also broken.
I don't think you can own a Lammy long-term if you don't own a welder. While fixing the brackets was easy enough, I had to fabricate a new section of pipe to join the silencer back to the exhaust. It's a good thing this is a rat bike, because I'm not bothering to grind any of these welds.
I know I have to be doing something wrong here, but everything I've tried as a buffer has just worn away in a matter of days. Next up, I think I'm going to tackle the rear silencer bracket again and see what I can do there. I have a couple ideas. We'll see what I come up with.
And I'm scheduled to do about 300 miles on this bike this weekend, so the clock is ticking. Good news, though, my SIP package with long range tank and new seat is already shipped out, so I'm hoping to have it by Thursday, which will give me plenty of time to get them installed.