Noisy, noisy, noisy exhausts!

LeftfieldTilt · 29 Apr 2011 at 17:33

SGCWill said:
What accident do you mean? I was on the M2 going into Belfast - He didn't knock me off or anything, I just smashed my face on his mirror - Could have been much worse...

My bad, I read that like you saw an accident involving a yellow bike and a van, my cousin has a Gixxer in yellow and was knocked off by a white van a month or so ago bust his arm in 6 places

jon.bda · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:47

BigglesPiP said:
There are some bikers round here with no silencer at all, I don't see how this is allowed, It's just unbearably loud. I shall refer to the south park episode; they're fags!

Why???, did they want to hump you after 'riding' past you...perhaps you should have forgone the assless chaps then...

Happy to help!!!

BigglesPiP · 29 Apr 2011 at 22:11

jon.bda said:
Why???, did they want to hump you after 'riding' past you...perhaps you should have forgone the assless chaps then...

Happy to help!!!

It doesn't mean gay:

For the record, I really like bikes. I dislike low revving 4 strokes with no exhaust to speak of that do not much more than sound like an AK-47 firing into the air. Although the few very noisy 2-strokes that sound like an amplified fart in a tin can are about as annoying. A slightly silenced high revving 4-stroke is a very nice thing though.

MatteH Oxford · 30 Apr 2011 at 20:30

I've always found 600cc sporstbikes to have the most annoying exhaust note, a really high pitched whine that carries a long distance. I can hear them screaming up the A4074 & that's about a mile away from home.

Kaeo · 1 May 2011 at 04:45

Clearly you live near the fairy bikers of the world. Tis what I ride. Aware it's not technically a sportsbike, but same engine as the gsxr 600.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMU7nKeVEsU

Nick1881 · 1 May 2011 at 09:34

I'm all for awesome sounding bikes, the only thing I can't stand is some poxy moped at max rpm doing 30-40 mph screaming away with such a pathetic noise.

rallyslag · 1 May 2011 at 16:03

MatteH Oxford said:
I've always found 600cc sporstbikes to have the most annoying exhaust note, a really high pitched whine that carries a long distance. I can hear them screaming up the A4074 & that's about a mile away from home.

Whine, what whine ?

Not my bike but same bike ,same exaust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEdyEKKV8f0

I love my whine

MatteH Oxford · 1 May 2011 at 16:32

I suppose it's because you generally have to rev the nutts off a 600 compared to a 1000cc IL4, and the sound that an egine makes @16K RPM carries a lot more.

I never hear ducati's or other twins at that sort of distance, only on the main road whch is right next to me.

Muel · 1 May 2011 at 22:16

Dogbreath said:
A very clichéd expression, and I doubt it's validity. I'm willing to bet defensive riding skills can save an awful lot more lives than noisy exhausts.

Depends on the bike. I have a 1986 MZ ETZ 125, (I know, laugh all you like but I pay £85 a year insurance), when it had the standard exaust I kept getting pedestrians stepping off the pavement in front of me all the time. I got a "race" system for it. It's not loud by any stretch, but at least people can hear it now.

EDIT: The other main reason I bought it was all the paint had fallen off the standard one, and the new one was £36. Worked out cheaper if you count paint and my time than respraying the old one.

izit · 27 May 2011 at 00:34

Most after market exhausts come with removable silencer for track day use, they are usually illegal on road though, if they get pulled they'll be fined £60 for it.
I keep silencer in because it's the deepness and tune that matters not the loudness

But if I was doing a track day I'd take it out