MjW wrote:

MrGrumpy wrote:

MjW wrote:I see. So the best "bang for the buck" performance mod is a variator.

I'm not after ultimate performance to be honest. I'd be happy with faster acceleration up to 70 miles and losing top speed.

Yes...I put the Malossi variator on (£300 fitted), and it feels like a different bike round town. Makes no odds at open road speeds, but it is brilliant at overtaking speeds.

Is it the Multivar 2000?

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Yes...with medium weights, and leaving the overall ratio alone.

The variator on it's own is a waste of £300, and this is coming from someone that spent over £1200 on a 4T runner engine tune, so take it from me spend what ever a set of lighter rollers are and go from there.

As Earl said buy the lighter weights but you can buy a cheaper pipe which will also dump most of the weight off...the tmax is not ment to be a sports bike even if they call it a sports scooter...Yamaha have been watching the tuning firms and thats why they pushed out a 530 model with a rubber band final drive. ....but lets face it unless your stuck in a rut and dont realise that the tmax will never destroy a sports bike ...dont even bother doing anything to them and just leave em standard ....but im sory to upset the old gits out there mine was a carb model with a injection engine and all the bits convereted that i can.....and i bloody love it. i have more people asking me about mine than any of the new ones.maybe its coz i look after it and put the effort into getting what i want...and not loads of money.