I dig that minizoom pipe  

I would imagine the price would be pretty high, I think the drag pipe was around $500 in the US.

A while back I was looking at a Raask 50mm drag and it was $650 and you needed a quote from them for shipping costs from Australia. I really would like to have that pipe though...

Wow, very nice looking metal !  I really like the Minizoom, but the Roadster and Decibel are also good looking.  The company needs to do something about the high cost.  There are lots of very good systems for twins that don't cost that much.

LANCER wrote on 08/27/08 at 04:44:46:

I think it all adds up with exchange rates, export duties and very high shipping costs from Sweden to the US.

I got my Raask in England for £180, about $350, and I was told by a poster on here that they were nearly $700 by the time they get to the counter in the US.  Somebody is making too much money there.

It is your own politicians you have to blame for the high price
If mr Raask could make them cheaper, he would, because then he would sell more. But you Americans are very good at protecting your own market
Well, any way I visited the Raask workshop on my way home from a Savage-meeting in Germany, and I have seen the new, devided pipe. It is as wide as it can get, 60mm...could it be 2,4 inches maybe. You can still use your original heat shields. The fit is absolutely perfect. The pipe itself is made in Finland, mr Raask is doing the rest in his workshop in southern Sweden. Naturally, I have a Raask dragpipe on my bike. The quality is really outstanding - this is no paperthin metal from China that wil rust after a year, so it is well worth the money.
When you get an easy-flow airfilter and re-jet your carb, you will have a "NEW" bike with more hp:s, and wonderful torque. Not to mention the sound
If you can afford it, buy it ! You won't regret it, I promise.

I'd love a Raask pipe, but one of the big reasons for me buying a Savage was that it was cheap to buy and to mess with. The price of a Raask would sort of kill that. However, if you're as cheap as me ... an adapter and Emgo shorty megaphone works pretty well.



This gave a pretty useful power increase, but was raise-the-dead loud. FMF four-stroke packing - the thick felted stuff - worked well to quiet it, and smoothed out a bottom end hole without killing the top end. Unfortunately the exhaust pulses tore it up too quickly. So I pulled that out and wrapped the baffle with as much 20 wire/inch stainless mesh as would fit. The result was heavy, but I really liked the power and the sound - it took all the high frequencies out. After a few weeks though I decided the dead were getting restive again and it had to go.

So I fitted a long Emgo I had lying around from another project. Much more civilised, but not so much power.



I'd do the Emgo shorty megaphone again, but I'd wrap the baffle maybe three layers deep with the stainless mesh, then pack with FMF 4stroke packing.

Oh yes - had my adapter made up to a 7 degree bend - not 10 - and both mufflers lined up perfectly with the bracket.