"Bomb" Aluminum Catch Can $100

[bajabomber87]

I'm sort of with you Dave. If it were cheap enough I'd get one though.

What do you guys see as affordable?
Just keep in mind the cheaper the price the simpler the design will have to be.

 

[flaya564]

No offense baja, but $100 for something I don't need is way too high. Even at $40, I'd still be iffy about something I don't need.

 

[bajabomber87]

I'm not touching anything under 60 for the lathe time put into it.

 

[flaya564]

I completely understand that. Just wanted you to know my outlook on motorcycle accessories.

 

[Drkside79]

Flaya To be fair your bike will run better.

 

[303xb]

ill spend the $ on a well built part which saves me from having to nagger rig a rubber hose/filter system that leaks all over my garage...especially custom.

 

[dave_xb12r]

ill spend the $ on a well built part which saves me from having to nagger rig a rubber hose/filter system that leaks all over my garage...especially custom.

Flaya To be fair your bike will run better.

I've never had a catch can, just a filter in front and going down to a hose ending near the kick stand bolt. It's never dropped a single drop under it while parked. It does come out while riding though. It just gets the kick stand oily, which I wipe off when I clean my bike. There is nothing to drain and nothing to forget about.

But if you do like them, then this is a good deal. Its better than ASB's price. I don't doubt the craftsmanship either. If I was a catch can kinda guy, I'd buy one.

 

[bajabomber87]

Well that residue all over the little nooks and crannies of the underside of the bike suck to clean off. I'm not even a clean freak about my bike, used to clean it 4 times a year, but after disassembling my bike I saw crap all over the engine, kickstand, and swing arm.

Anyways here's the completely hidden and out of site catch can I thought up today. Still needs the hose barb, breather, and drain screwed in.

$95 shipped.

Aluminum fyi

 

[303xb]

Dude...now you're cooking w gas. Love the idea. Will it fit w a ebr race can??

 

[dave_xb12r]

EBR???

 

[bajabomber87]

Dude...now you're cooking w gas.  Love the idea. Will it fit w a ebr race can??

Hell if I know but it will clear a Jardine w/Jardine mounts, and should clear a stock Buell can. It's tucked close in there and pretty skinny as the pics show. I would imagine it fits with any exhaust because no exhaust I've seen goes anywhere near the kickstand or the corner of the chin spoiler with the hole in it.

 

[xtremelow]

It is a tighter fit than you may think. I would do some measuring before selling them to others on a stock pipe.

 

[bajabomber87]

What's the other side look like? It sits on the left side of the bike.

Well it's hard to tell from pics online, I'll check it on Dave's bike this week. Should still clear for how thin it is.

 

[jerseymayhem]

Im confused on what the catch can actually does to improve bike performance....and what a catch can is........? [confused]

 

[browland]

technically nothing for performance however the breather reroute that accompanies it helps the bike run better because it routes fumes and partially burnt crap away from the intake and into said catch can

 

[jerseymayhem]

wow and people charge $100 for it....idk if its worth it from my POV. Maybe for like $20, unless its hidden on like super custom. Maybe one day I'll add one.
Thanks for the info browland! [up]

 

[bajabomber87]

Maybe for like $20

If I ever become Chinese maybe I can make them for that cheap.

 

[bajabomber87]

and people charge $100 for it...

Its only 85, the extra 10 is for USPS flat rate shipping. You have to remember custom parts take time, material, and use consumables, it's not like I'm selling a pill bottle catch can here. There's 4+ hours into that single can.

 

[Riderdie]

"what is this?"

Just came across this thread, the black grenade catch can is something i made

in like a half hour for maybe 13 bucks.

Got the lemon grenade for $10 from a local store, the 3/8in barb from Home

depot for a dollar and drilled a hole in the grenade for the barb and a second

hole to attach it to the bike, painted it with black ceramic header paint. Used

an old piece of rubber from the tail section where the license plate lights ran

through the frame as a cap for the bottom. It is

pretty heavy but i put a piece of rubber fuel house between the grenade and the

frame, hasnt come loose yet!

 

[Riderdie]

Either a rock just hit it the grenade or some idiot tried to pull the lever[mad]

No problem though bent it back with some pliers and looks good as new.

I cant believe a rock would of smashed perfectly to bend the lever like that maybe a combo of rock and tire.
Who knows![smirk]