Are you really fat and too lazy to do anything about it" Does the thought of going to the gym fill you with dread" Perhaps you prefer the taste of a cheeseburger to a nice healthy salad. If that sounds like you, you?re not alone. But you don?t have to worry about it these days. It?s 2021 and fat-shaming has been practically outlawed. You?re well within your rights to be as grotesquely obese as you want, and don?t let anyone tell you otherwise; although it?s not going to help the performance of your bike. But to combat the issue, there are a handful of easy tricks you can do to shed a few kilos off your bike, rather than your gut. It?s the easy way to lose weight. All you need to do is spend some cash?

Exhaust

Euro5 emissions legislation has led to bigger, uglier and crucially, heavier exhaust pipes on modern bikes. It?s a sorry state of affairs, but it?s the way of the world and it?s not going to get any better any time soon. So there isn?t much point in complaining about it. But what it does mean, is that it?s now dead easy to shed serious weight. A standard system on a modern superbike can easily weigh upwards of 10kg. It?ll be full of cats and valves and servos and all that guff you need to get the emissions down. But if you don?t care about the emissions (sorry Greta, love), you can bin all that shit off. For a grand or two, you?d be able to pick up a straight-through, stainless steel jobby weighing half as much. Or, for two or three grand, get a...