Im not interested in making a racer or anything but I would like to trim it up a bit. Any suggestions on where I could loose wieght without hurting the bike?

 

loose the mud flaps and their support bar, the overflow resevoir, the foot gaurds, and tail light. Replace handle bars with aluminum ones, rear grab bar with aluminum, replace hood and light with smooth or vented hood, Remove the frt rotor sheilds.

If it is an older Lakota that is not a Sport, then loose the racks, the two headlights, and change to aluminum wheels.

You could also get rid of the air intake system and switch to a carb mounted filter.

 

where does one find plastic for the Lakota Sport? i.e. smooth or vented hoods.

 

maier

 

My lakota lost 10 pounds today!!! Using my handy fishing scale I wieghed the stock exhaust and the new exhaust and I netted 2.5 lbs!! Then I removed the stock airbox, hoses, filter and screws and subtracted the new clamp on uni filter, another 3.5 lbs!! Then I removed all my mud flaps and mounting brackets and whalla! 4 lbls for a grand total of 10 lbs and a much better looking quad.

Next is nerf bars in place of the stock heal guards.

 

I just read that the stock dry weight of the lakota is 448 lbs? Is that right? Man that seems a bit extreme, and it makes my 10 pounds sort of worthless.

 

mojaveaddict: where is the "overflow resevoir"? Im slowing following your advice but this resevoir has elluded me thus far.

 

My bad, I was thinking mojave but the lakota is air cooled so it does not have one.