I'm not a huge retro fan but quite like that ! The back end is nice n declutteted, exhaust cut short and swept back bars.

The exhaust reminds me of the one on my SRX.

 

We like stubby cans !

Do hipsters ride motorbikes? I thought they were on on fixie pedal cycles.

Have you been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, lol?

Must have been.

We like stubby cans !

That problem with exhausts now is that, thanks to the EU arseholes and their bulls**t legislation, they all have to be massive with hideously ugly car style collectors, and there's just nowhere to hide such aesthetic horrors on an unfaired bike. The exhaust is as monstrously ugly as all modern ones, and would need removing, binning, and replacing with something a whole lot less offensive aesthetically, and more offensive sonically.

We like stubby cans !

I like mine

http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q501/StripleR/Street%20Triple%20R/DSC_7588copyweb.jpg

Edited 24 July, 201510 yr by StripleR675

That problem with exhausts now is that, thanks to the EU arseholes and their bulls**t legislation, they all have to be massive with hideously ugly car style collectors, and there's just nowhere to hide such aesthetic horrors on an unfaired bike. The exhaust is as monstrously ugly as all modern ones, and would need removing, binning, and replacing with something a whole lot less offensive aesthetically, and more offensive sonically.

Thankfully though, they are easily removed and replaced.

Thankfully though, they are easily removed and replaced.

But a few years ago all you needed was to change the can. Now you have to change the whole system, which is expensive.

I only changed the can....

 

I only changed the can....

 

Obviously, I can still see the huge, horrific, rusty, mild steel EU friendly carbuncle of a collector that it's connected to. I couldn't live with that hanging off my bike, even without the rust.

It illustrates my previous post perfectly though, lol.

Obviously, I can still see the huge, horrific, rusty, mild steel EU friendly carbuncle of a collector that it's connected to. I couldn't live with that hanging off my bike, even without the rust.

 

Luckily I dont crawl along the floor looking under my bike too often and the cat cover does just that and covers it from normal hight. The only other bit of the exhaust you can see standing up are these  :sun:

 

Edited 24 July, 201510 yr by matt1chelski

Obviously, I can still see the huge, horrific, rusty, mild steel EU friendly carbuncle of a collector that it's connected to. I couldn't live with that hanging off my bike, even without the rust.

It depends on the bike tbf. Some are less obvious than others.

Vfrs fine which ran until 2013. Cant speak for the 2014 though. But the can does need changing on that.

Edit: and thankfully no emissions test on MOT. Yet.

Edited 24 July, 201510 yr by fabiamk2SE

Luckily I dont crawl along the floor looking under my bike too often

I do, lol. Most recently yesterday. It stands out like a sore thumb in that picture though, I couldn't bear to have something that ugly on my bike personally, butbi fussiest than most.

Vfrs fine which ran until 2013. Cant speak for the 2014 though.

A fairing can hide all manner of aesthetic horrors. As removing one from most used faired bikes will show, lol.

Edit: and thankfully no emissions test on MOT. Yet.

Thankfully, for now, at least. My catalytic converter is where it belongs - in a cardboard box, along with the whole rest of the OE exhaust system.

Nice looking can in your pic though, just needs the rest of the system replacing.

A fairing can hide all manner of aesthetic horrors. As removing one from most used faired bikes will show, lol.

Ah youll be surprised. Mines as good on the inside as it is on the outside.

It looked worse when it rolled out the factory .

Got a really keen eye for the whole package though, inc paint mismatches etc. must of turned down about 20 before i found this one.

But then it was a viffer with 15k on. Which is barely run in, but much higher than ive gone for in the past. (5k max before)

I do, lol. Most recently yesterday. It stands out like a sore thumb in that picture though, I couldn't bear to have something that ugly on my bike personally, butbi fussiest than most.

 

 

A fairing can hide all manner of aesthetic horrors. As removing one from most used faired bikes will show, lol.

 

 

Nice looking can in your pic though, just needs the rest of the system replacing.

 

Yeah, I was sat on the floor having just fitted it so not a good angle. 

 

The problem with taking the cat off is that the bike sound perfect as it is, if I take the cat off it's way too loud, if it's a choice of the perfect noise and living with the hidden cat or having it annoyingly loud but no cat I'll go with the first. I've seen a few belly pans or lower fairings but every time I see a naked bike with one they just look a bit tacky/stuck on, like it's gone through halfords backwards lol. 

Ah youll be surprised. Mines as good on the inside as it is on the outside.

I'm not casting aspersions on yours, but most faired bikes you look at that owners claim to be mint are around from it - when you look under the plastics you think "christ, if that's your idea of interest, I'd hate to see a tatty one", lol. To keep a faired bike nice you need to remove all the plastics regularly for a proper clean, which on most modern bikes is a nightmare jigsaw of fiddly clips, screws made of cheese, and easily broken panels.

My StripleR is far better than when it left the factory. It's seen rain once (and never will again) , but it got a 20 hour nook and cranny cleaning session after that, including removing all the bodywork, tank, and even unbolting the radiator to get to all the fiddly bits behind that.

I'm not casting aspersions on yours, but most faired bikes you look at that owners claim to be mint are around from it - when you look under the plastics you think "christ, if that's your idea of interest, I'd hate to see a tatty one", lol. To keep a faired bike nice you need to remove all the plastics regularly for a proper clean, which on most modern bikes is a nightmare jigsaw of fiddly clips, screws made of cheese, and easily broken panels.

My StripleR is far better than when it left the factory. It's seen rain once (and never will again) , but it got a 20 hour nook and cranny cleaning session after that, including removing all the bodywork, tank, and even unbolting the radiator to get to all the fiddly bits behind that.

Fair weather rider are we?

 

The problem with taking the cat off is that the bike sound perfect as it is, if I take the cat off it's way too loud

Too loud? As the saying goes, "if it's too loud, you're too old", lol.

Fair weather rider are we?

Absolutely. Riding bikes in bad weather is an utterly hateful, miserable task. Why would I do that, when I have a car? I have far too much time and money in my bikes to use them in bad weather, even if I was mental enough to want to.

I ride bikes for fun. Riding bikes in bad weather is as much fun as sandpapering your ball sack and sitting in a bucket of salt. Ergo, I don't do it, lol.