Brammo Owners Forum

I just got a set of these, and am struggling to install them on my Empulse R 2014 (which is what they are labelled for on the box). The bolt that they  mount on goes about 5mm or so in and then I hit quite heavy friction so don't want to press on less I thread the hole. Any tips on fitting them?

I thought I'd try to kick off a generic photo thread for people to share their Brammo/Victory bikes of any form - I'm sure there must still be a few out there on the road! Here's a pic I took of mine yesterday after a chilly early start:



As mentioned otherwhere, it was off the road for a while for various reasons, but I'm back out using it again. A bit late in the season, but glad to have the smiles back.

I took my Brammo in for the MOT (a UK mandatory annual road worthiness test). One of the checks they do is they lift both the wheels (one at a time) to check that the wheels don't drop off and that on the front the steering is free. The rear is easy enough, as you can put it on a paddock stand for the test. But the front you need to be able to turn the handle bars. The mechanic and I in the end did some dubious counter weighting on the back, as we couldn't find a place to put the jack to lift the front.

In the service manual it says that you can lift the bike on a jack, but it doesn't specify where. Any tips for a safe point at the front to lift the back in such a way? Happy to remove panels etc. to get to it, I just don't want to put the weight on something I shouldn't.

After a while parked up, I've got my Brammo back on the road. One thing I've noticed that I never noticed before is that on the left hand controls I have a 3 pin connector that is unused just sitting there. Does anyone know what this is for? I had a look at the wiring diagram, but I couldn't spot anything that seemed to match. I've attached a picture.

It could be that it was tied back better before - I did have to have the handle bars replaced due to dropping the bike, and the weight bending the bars.

Oh good idea, how did the magnet on the drain plug look?

It was a little furry with filings, but not massively so. I have to confess I've never done an oil change before this one, so I've no idea what normal is, but I guess I'd expect a little bit of filings build up over a couple of thousand miles since the last change?

I must confess, I don't find the gearbox on the Brammo to be the smoothest unit I've experienced, so I was a bit worried I'd find worse

Finally got everything together to do an oil change. The bike was a bit low on oil it turns out, down to about 700ml, rather than the 1 litre recommended in the service manual (this is a 2014 bike). There were some small filings on the plug and in the filter, but nothing major that fell out (in the picture the bigger blob is actually some filings, and squishes when pressed, so no big metal bits).

I took it for a small run post oil change and I didn't hear any issues, however it's a very small sample so I'll take it out for a longer run tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for the advice!

To try and help give a better description, I went out with a go pro. The audio isn't great, but you can make out the squealing noise as I pull off a couple of times.