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what are people's thoughts on using these?
both my mrs' SV and my VFR have race systems on them and they sound great... however i have recently felt guilty about them because there's a guy with a TL1000S who lives up the road which has race cans, and he's forever coming past at 12am+ and the vibration through the house is terrible it made me think what people who are trying to get peace and quiet must think about us when we come past with a race can on.. for that reason i have decided to put a road legal exhaust on as it's not pleasant! what are your thoughts? |
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Road legal ones are the way forward.
I do think its very inconsiderate to use a race can at the dead of night near other residents. Very selfish, no different from the boys in their corsas and their loud stereos. Very anti-social if done at the wrong time. So much so that if I have to leave early I roll my bike down the hill away from houses before starting it up. Done the same when I lived in the city, rolled it down the stret then started it, exhaust pointing away from houses etc. I am convinced that loud pipes do save lives. So my baffle stays out when I'm going into town/city centre. When out in the national parks or going for a blast, baffle in. Sure the sound is fun but I for one don't like to annoy others and understand about these people ****ed off living in the countryside and hearing bikes racing by. I probably wouldn't complain myself as I love the sound. But still....love thy neighbour and all that.... ![]() |
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I think it's nice to see a bit of consideration for other people.
The bike i've just bought has a road legal CCC can on, and it surprised me how loud it was, even with the baffles in. Like you, i'll be pushing the bike to the top of the street at night/early morning before I start it. Don't get me wrong, I love the sound of a loud pipe but sometimes they can just be 'a bit too loud' and draw 'too' much attention, either resulting in being pulled by the fuzz and quite probably your whole street completley hating you. I suppose it could be classed as antisocial behavior or somthin'. I live in a built up area so it'll be quite hard for me to not tick someone off at some point. But i'll be keeping my baffles in and pushing it to the top of the street in late/early hours. Well done that man!! |
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Both my bikes have race cans on ( removable baffle with the baffles out ) I know what you are saying, But I always keep the rev's down and night and ride consideratly through built up areas country villages etc to try and keep the noise down.
I've been and spoken to my neighbours and said to them that if they find the noise disturbing then I'll put the baffles back in. None of them said it was a problem and said that they werent being disturbed by the can on either of my bikes. When the police start clamping down on the chav's in cars with loud exhausts then I might take the whole matter alot more seriously.
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TL's even with road legal aftermarket cans are loud, someone i met up with had a TL1000R with QuillT3 cans which are road legal and it was still very loud when it was moving.
Its very much type of bike that makes it loud or not, twins are just noisy as they make a low thud that vibrates windows.
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I don't roll the bike down the road but I don't blast straight off giving it some either. I'm as considerate as is possible with twin renegades but if the dogs locked in the back yards have been barking like a pack of deranged loons all day and night then the bike is started in the alley on full choke, warmed up and given a few revs at 6am before I leave for work. That seems fair to me
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It's all about balance... Mine is, if I'm honest, a bit loud. But I used to have a set of twin cans from Japan that were, quite frankly, taking the mick... With teh hotter cams, it was just ridiculous, and they had to go. The main difference was that the bike lacked the capacity to be quiet- with my current can, if I keep the revs down it's not bad, but with the old ones no matter what, it was a racket.
There's a guy who lives around here that has a GSX1300 with a megaphone can... another with a supermoto that might as well be unbaffled. It's idiots like that that give fuel to the people who'd stick us with a 73db limit.
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I have only just put a race can on and I am starting to struggle with the ethics of it though. However if it does make just one person notice me slightly more and avoid an accident then that is well worth a couple of people tutting every now and then.
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