Are these illegal exhausts legal?
 

Just fitted a set of 2nd hand renegades to my bike(they are straight through pipes) and I noticed "for competition use only" stamped on them.

I fitted after market baffles to them,and I read a previous thread about small plates and noisy exhausts,but doesnt mention anything about adding your own baffles,so will fitting the baffles make them road legal.and pass mot with baffles fitted

Cheers Mark

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i hsve a set of renegades pipes aswell and i fitted baffles like you have and mine passed/passes its MOT with no problem, guess different places might be more/less lenient though.

Edit: they did put a bit of silver tape over where mine said for competition use only though :D

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Nope, if it says 'not for road' or competition use only then its an MOT fail

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Ive polished off "for competition use only"

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Yea if you cover up the for competition use only / not road legal etc etc with a bit of tape the mot'er is not alowed to remove the bit of tape, but if you polished it out, that doesnt matter :p

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Except for the fact that if caught with an illegal exhaust that has had the 'offending phrase' removed or covered up, then you could be facing a fraud conviction !

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Just make sure its covered or baffled! :-)

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Any copper would have to be particularly vindictive (or North Welsh) to do you for noise anyway. I've got hundreds of biking mates, and I honestly don't know of any that have actually been prosecuted for excessive noise. The fact that most of them avoid areas where the Nazi Party have infiltrated the local Constabulary may have something to do with it.

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I've got the twin rene's on mine, and have had no problem is getting through it's MOT.
As long as the baffles are stamped with, I think it's an EU or BS number of sorts, then they should be fine with it :)

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I was told that polishing it off turns what would be a construction and use offence into a dishonesty offence, which will royally **** you if you ever apply for a job that needs criminal records checks. Doubt it happens very often (if ever) but if you're going to use race pipes on a road bike, just suck it up and accept the risk rather than trying to conceal it and make it worse.