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Now, despite supply issues out of Yamaha, there are now thousands of these bikes out in the world and countless buyers still waiting to get what is their dream bike that are literally hundreds as well of social network pages in regards to the T7 and a common question of seeing on these sites and pages other than Facebook, the forums as well. The question of seeing nearly all the time is now a finely taken delivery of my bike, my T7's arrived, what do I need to add? I have to say I also made a list when I first ordered mine and stats, blushing my hard and cack. Here's a list, it wasn't necessarily the right thing to do. So, look, sorry I had it at a centre stand. Yamaha Rally, bash plate, the Yamaha Bass Plate toolbox that boxed to it. Radguard, headlight protector, engine guards, RNG spindle sliders, the gaming Zuma GPS, quadlock mountains, heated grips, heavy duty inner tubes, backbusters, double-take adventure mirrors. I've got a Lecunante, wobble bracket for the dash, the Yamaha Mono seat, luggage rack if you like and managed to remove the rear pegs because there's no rear seats. That's not a bad thing. Well, it's a decent toolkit because the OE1 is hardly even a token gesture. It's crap, being beat-tailed tiny. In of K3, high-def front and rear camera setup. Now to be fair, depending on where you're intending to ride, there are some necessary items on that list. If you intend to ride tracks and trails, absolutely you're going to need certain items. The Radguard is a necessity, headlight protection, absolutely. Barb busters, of course you need a toolkit of some sort. Everything else, though, needs to be sort of risk assessed in relation to your environment, which I'll come to. I want to come to these shortly as well, the crash-gads. But look at what I've added. I've pretty much car-bloded, Matty 7. We all know what happens when we smash the calves. We get fat, we become sluggish, we lose our agility, we get overloaded and struggle to move along like we used to, I suppose. That's exactly what this bike feels like to me. It's not the bike I bought, and definitely not like the agile, live, basty it once was, in that demo that I rode. It's sort of like being suggested to me that maybe I'm just starting to explore the limits of the bike a bit, and the skills are improving. I've come from over three decades of road bikes, I've been previous to that, done little to no, low surface work. There's a significant transition, yes, but I still feel that I've restricted my progress by allowing all this weight gain on the bike. When I got the bike, I felt like it was an everyday weapon, even a relative novice off-road like I was. It could quickly get the hang of it. But it was also capable of being a decent, long distance adventure ride as well when coupled upon. Mine now feels like an adventure bike that might make me think twice about tackling certain today, because it's not really feeling as weapon like as it did. What appealed to me when I bought this was the fact that it wasn't just an adventure bike, it was a radical sporty steed, if you like, but I've hidden that sporty feel. I've hidden all the athleticism that I felt with the bike, with all the add-ons, and I desperately miss that tenor-air weapon that I bought. I think to get it back to where it was, it's good to have to go on a diet, I'm going to have to reduce the carbs if you like. I have no idea what it weighs now, it just feels way too much for me. It's a struggle. I feel that there's potential to slim down 15kg, maybe even more, maybe 20kg. I've got to get to work on it, I'm going to show you what I've done so far. What we've done so far, weight-wise, to start shaving off some of these carbs I'll call it, started with the anti-gravity battery, which is another seat, that saved a massive 2.2kg. It's only 1% of the bike, but we're going to start looking at a cumulative weight loss. So 2.2kg, Bosch, Dunn, that's the starter. I've removed the centre stand, I'll live without it, which weighs at least 4kg. I've removed the OE Rally Bashblade and toolbox, which went with it. I've replaced that with a composite item from AMX. I thought I'd save a bit more weight, but not too bad, it's another 1.5kg. Now, here's the biggie. Excuse me, ordered this week, and I'm starting off with the, I'm going to pronounce it right, the Acrapavitch. Stainless steel header. Now the standard exhaust system, downpipes and exhaust weighs about 6.1kg. It's a heavy beastie. The Acrapavitch, not Acrapol, which I think it's Acrapavitch, and I like seeing crap, even though it isn't. Ways 2.1kg. That's a 4kg saving. Excited, I'm excited about that. Of course, I'm going to then follow that up with a lovely new cam to replace this heavy beast ear. That should be at least another 2 or 3kg. We'll call it 2 to start with. That's a 6kg saving, just on the exhaust system by fitting a header and cam. That's a bit of a good thing. What else? I'm investigating the weight benefit of going tubeless. Getting one of the tubeless kits or tubeless kits. Any comments on that are very welcome. I can convert to remove the weighty heavy-duty tubes that I've got in there. Might save a kilogram. It's all adding up. I reckon they were at least a kilo. Be interested to see what the tubeless kit actually weighs. I made a mind, Ian, who works at Crosst Yamaha, South of Adelid. He's provoked some thought too. He doesn't even have crash bands on his T7. I said I was going to come to these. He rides hard all over South Australia. I reckon removing them would be another 5kg, maybe. I don't know if I felt like taking that risk. In the two years of ownership of this, I reckon this bike has been in landscape more than half a dozen times. It's the nature of off-road riding, isn't it? So until I learn to stop lying it down, I'll be keeping them on the bike. Let's summarize what we're talking about. I want to discuss the other side to this as well. I expect riders out there that are happy to be carrying all and sundry with them. I've been, I've got a boy scout, who would be prepared carrying everything. I have the soft luggage, the paniers, extra lights on the bikes, the ride at night. Every conceivable piece of kit to tackle a decent long adventure ride. I suppose you've got to be prepared for every issue of the encounter and happy to compromise that original feel of the bike. For a piece of mind, I'm not. If you like me and you want to also keep that flamboyant weapon, the T7 Azaz as Yamaha intended, be aware that if you add something, consider the fact you might need to also take something away. Or look at swapping components for lighter alternatives to compensate, such as the exhaust system or the lighter composite bash plate. It's a balance, but you've got to be aware if you want to keep that bike feeling as it was when you bought it. You've got a compensate. That's it for now. I'll see you again soon with an update on that for a crap of itch system. That'll no doubt look and sound awesome. I'm sure it will. Along with that 6kg or 7 in weight. Something else I'm going to be reducing on another note is, other than the bike's weight, is my time on social networks moving forward. Other than right here on YouTube, if you like what you watched or think it's useful info, I've massively appreciated you sharing it on your pages, on your pages that you visit. It's good info, I hope. 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