Product Showcase: Taylormade GP2 Slip-On Exhaust for Honda CBR1000RR
Cycle News Staff | September 9, 2015
Inspired by Honda’s fearsome RC213V MotoGP racebike, Taylormade Racing has just unleashed the GP2 slip-on exhaust for late-model CBR1000RR models. Clad in carbon fiber, it increases power, emits a distinct growl and weighs nine pounds less than stock.
The company’s model-specific, composite trim panels artfully conceal underslung, mufflers, reveal exhaust pipes or encompass their outlets, while seamlessly blending into stock bodywork. Combining these elements, its beautiful, unique products–styled by renowned motorcycle designer John Keogh–make every Taylormade-equipped bike immediately stand out from the crowd. Looking like the factory racer’s side-mount pipe, the new GP2 features a short megaphone capped with steel mesh and fed by an underslung, chambered muffler. Both are shrouded by Taylormade’s signature design element, a carbon-fiber body trim panel that follows the pipe’s upswept lines and integrates with its belly pan.
The GP2 bolts on, boosts midrange and top-end power without fuel-system remapping, and requires no permanent modifications. It has a hidden, mass-centralizing absorption-style muffler that features Taylormade’s exclusive Cool Ceramic Technology. Constructed from thin-wall stainless-steel that is ceramic coated to enhance performance, it routes the gases through a series of cooling passageways and a proprietary blend of stainless-steel and fiber packing material that soak up noise, heat and vibration, not power.
The pipe is formed on a mandrel tube bender, TIG welded, and comes in either a natural finish black ceramic coating. The GP2’s exhaust outlet is three inches in diameter and topped with a stainless-steel grate, just like the factory bikes of World Champion Marc Marquez and teammate Dani Pedrosa.
Retail Price: $999
Orders are now being taken online at RaceTaylorMade.com, by phone at 818/781-8123 and through select motorcycle dealerships.