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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Steel Frame Conversion (SFC) => Topic started by: royceymon@hotmail.co.uk on November 16, 2010, 08:38:49 AM

Title: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: royceymon@hotmail.co.uk on November 16, 2010, 08:38:49 AM

Hi guys
           when i had my kx500 in 88 i had a sletchen pipe ( i think that was the spelling) does any body remember them or what happened to the company perhaps its now hgs???

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: DoldGuy on November 16, 2010, 09:49:08 AM

Sletchen became known as SPES & to my knowledge it has become his sons business now known as DEP(?). About a decade ago Billy Liles was the importer for the SPES pipes here in the USA & I purchased one for my KX250 (still have it I think).
DoldGuy

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: kawboy on November 16, 2010, 09:50:21 AM

I had one on my '93 500. The bike was stolen in June of 2008. The pipe will be one of the positive identifiers. It was one of the great Danny Hamel's. It had SPES stamped in it. It had great low end but kind of fell off on the top. If anybody ever runs across one for sell please let me know.

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: Dutch-K5 Fan on November 17, 2010, 04:45:32 AM

Slechten and Spes are/ were Belgium brands, DEP is from the UK.  :? :?

Isn't Doma the new name???  And what Iv? heard that the Exhausts of Rino are made by SPES?


I would like to know what happend to Spes. They  made a lowboy version of there KX500 pipe!!!!
So maybe there are still molds for them :-).

Dutch

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: royceymon@hotmail.co.uk on November 17, 2010, 07:59:55 AM

Yeah Dutch
                  i think your correct i did get it from europe via an importer in 88 had it on my kx500 , ported and with sletchen pipe very very quick infact so quick when we had the amca beach race at weymouth holeshoted in both races ive got photos will put on disc and on the site , also got shots of brand spanker 89 kx250 when i just picked it up the 89 kawasaki chap should be interested in that!!

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: jonny500 on November 17, 2010, 08:03:33 AM

dep is in the uk. i have just bought 1, very poor quality welding and fab work but cheaper than anything else

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: RoostDaddy on November 17, 2010, 08:08:22 AM

SPES is now DOMA.  
Dutch, I would contact them as the boy took over his dad's old stuff.

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: royceymon@hotmail.co.uk on November 17, 2010, 08:19:10 AM

ive had a hgs and a fmf fatty for the kx250 the fmf took alot more battering but the hgs was the best performance/look/quality although saying that the fmf was good quality ........dont rate the dep .sorry

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: VON DEM on February 07, 2011, 11:27:53 PM

HI , SLECHTEN BECAME SPES AROUND 1988 , THE SPES KX500 PIPE SIGNED OFF EARLY AS SOMOENE SAID WHICH WAS PREFFERED BY MOST GP CHAMPIONSHIP RIDERS AS IT HELPED THE CONROD / CRANK SURVIVE DAVE THORPE HAD A LOT OF BROKEN RODS AS HE REVVED THE KX500 SO HARD

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: husky333 on June 25, 2011, 10:59:22 AM

occasionaly spes/schlecten pipes can be seen on ebay over here in england,( second hand). the low boy look is a liitle unusual/different from the more familiar fmf or procircuit type. i have a D.G. front pipe in the garage, it is the only other make of pipe i have ever seen to the more familiar ones, it seems to be quite a rare thing.

Title: Re: sletchen pipe ?? anybody remember
Post by: kwakman on July 10, 2011, 09:37:28 AM

there is a spes on ebay uk now,although im sure someone else said they give a broad range of power without signing off too early, which contradicts your experiences.were there 2 types?K.