Sinnis Apache 125 - Ongoing Modifications

[Sinnex]

Hi all, please be nice as I am new; to both biking and the forum.

I decided that since I keep playing about with things on the bike I will just make one thread and post all relevant things in it.

I own a black with white graphics 2013 plated Sinnis Apache, and so far I have done the following things in chronological order:

Pictures to follow when I get time to take some.

- Removed pillion foot pegs, as I can't carry a pillion on L plates and kept catching my legs on them. Holes left open for now until I find something to blank with. I have kept the pillion hand grips for now as I use them to maneuver the bike in the limited space I have to park it.

- Applied red "wheel tape/rim tape" to both front and back wheel. I ended up having a more expensive tape and a £1.99 tape, so the front got the thin expensive tape that ended up wobbly in some places and the back got the thicker cheap tape which is perfectly round; sod's law.

- Removed stock exhaust for a Yoshimura Titan copy. Fitted with a jubilee clip for now.

- Replaced hand grips with red Pro Taper ones.

- Ordered baffle for end can as it is far too loud and I feel bad coming home from work late at night. Baffle does not fit exhaust. So DO NOT order 8" (20cm) baffles from eBay as you will end up hitting them with a hammer and then can't send them back for a refund.

Things still yet to do:

- Remove white stock graphics as I personally am not a fan. I will need to either get the tank sprayed or buy a new blank tank.

- Replace front sprocket with 16t.

- Replace air filter with K&N or similar.

- Fit crash bobbins/bungs.

- Replace stock mirrors with bar end mirrors.

- Replace any nuts/bolts/screws that are starting to rust.

- Replace foot pegs with red foot pegs.

- Replace bars.

- Replace levers.

- Possibly replace calipers / paint calipers.

- Replace spark plug.


Feel free to ask any questions etc. This is an 'ongoing' thing so don't expect me to have done all this already. If there isn't a picture of it then I haven't done it.