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

 

Hahaha, I enjoy longer trips too much, the drone would get on my tits. Plus too much noise draws attention to you......

 

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If somebody said I could have any new bike free, including free insurance, free servicing, free tyres and unlimited free petrol, but I had to use it in all weathers, I'd tell them to f**k off and shove it up their a**e sideways, lol.

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So do small plates, black visors, speeding, wheelies and generally riding like a tw*t, but I'm not going to stop doing any of those either, lol.

Oh yeah, I'm not going to argue with that but if the cant hear me from 3 towns away to start with that's half the battle. 

I can't stand quiet bikes, if it got to the point where it became impossible to run a proper sounding pipe, I wouldn't have a bike at all. I think that bikes with standard, legal exhausts (especially sports 600s) sound far more offensive when thrashed than those with a nice fruity exhaust on. With a standard exhaust it's just a horrible mix of nasty mechanical engine noise, chain noise etc. Just this afternoon a standard cbr600rr came past me (in my car), accelerating hard, and it sounded bloody awful.

Yeah I'm not a fan of quiet bikes, I like a nice middle ground, fruity when gunning it but not too loud when bumbling about. Because that Mivv on my bike is so short and there's nothing of it, it has made quite a difference to the sound, where as my brothers bike when he had it with a more traditional style exhaust like yours it didnt make half as much difference. 

Yeah I'm not a fan of quiet bikes, I like a nice middle ground, fruity when gunning it but not too loud when bumbling about. Because that Mivv on my bike is so short and there's nothing of it, it has made quite a difference to the sound, where as my brothers bike when he had it with a more traditional style exhaust like yours it didnt make half as much difference.

Mine (the Street R) has a race 3 into 1 full Arrow system on it. It's fruity, but not offensive, at low revs round town, but when you open it up it sounds absolutely delicious. With the triple engine it's such a distinctive note, as the revs rise it turns into a gorgeous snarl, with a lovely crack on up shifts, and the crisp bark when blipping the throttle on downshifts is so intoxicating that you find yourself changing down just to hear it, lol. Combine that noise with the extra power it makes over stock, the build quality, and the huge weight saving (over 6kg - the whole system weighs less than the stock header pipes) it was worth every penny of the £675 it cost. The standard system sounded as good as a standard exhaust ever can, but it looked awful, and the Arrow just massively improves the riding experience and ownership pleasure of the bike. I did consider just going for a pair of race cans for the original high level system, but I knew I'd never really be happy with it, and pair of premium quality cans costs as much or more than the full system anyway.

That's not my bike, but same exhaust (fast forward to 3 5 seconds in to miss the awful euro pop intro).

My T509 Speed Triple has been known to set off car alarms with that on, an old Scorpions can that's packing has probably seen better days, lol.

That's not my bike, but same exhaust (fast forward to 3 5 seconds in to miss the awful euro pop intro).

That should say 25 seconds.

Was there any silencing in that Mivv can, or are they just open pipes with no packing?

Nice, exhaust sounds just right. When I bought my CB I'd gone to look at a Speed Triple, the noise was one of the big draws but I fell for my bike when I got there.

The Mivv is just a bit of pipe, no packing. It's got a couple of baffles in there but I took them out and it didn't make a huge difference. Aside from looking nicer the exhaust my brother made in the other thread done the same thing, nothing to it really.

It would be a bit on the loud side if it's just a length of straight through hollow pipe then, lol.

My Speed Triple with the old high level Scorpion can is a much deeper bass note than the Street Triple with the Arrow system. Or it would be if it was in one piece, rather than a rolling chassis and boxes of bits.

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.

But the problem comes when you actually want to go somewhere. A few days trip and more, you cant guarantee what the weathers gonna be like. Just gotta take it as it comes.

I wouldn't do a multi day trip, unless the forecast was for zero chance of rain. Certainly wouldn't plan one in advance, or anything that needed money up front, because if there was any chance of rain forecast I wouldn't go.

I wouldn't do a multi day trip, unless the forecast was for zero chance of rain. Certainly wouldn't plan one in advance, or anything that needed money up front, because if there was any chance of rain forecast I wouldn't go.

Pretty much never in the UK then.

Yup, hence th c fact that I don't plan anything in advance that involves riding a bike, it's entirely weather dependant.

Many years ago I did the won't ride in the rain and spend more time cleaning than riding.  Then I was a rider instructor for four and a bit years riding in whatever was thrown at me and being too knackered to clean the bike.  Now I prefer to ride than clean and if the bike gets wet or salt on it tough.  It is protected by All Year Biker and just needs a hose down and dry off to bring it up again.

Not a criticism of you Striple and each to their own but I have a bike to ride and while I wouldn't set off if it was peeing down I don't worry if I am out in it.

 

 

I used to be a nervous rider in the wet but being out in all weathers cured me of that and improved my skill level so that now I am confident and just get on with it.  I too have a car and can and do use that if need be but I would much prefer to be on the bike given a choice and a bit of bad weather won't change that.

 

 

My bike isn't immaculate because I don't spend hours trapping my fingers in tight spaces to get that last little bit of crud out that you can only see with an endoscope!  In my opinion that makes neither of us better, just different.  I also think biking needs your sort as well because the rest of us can pick up them cosseted bikes when you have finished them!

Im somewhat in the middle.

I dont ride on the salty winter roads anymore, but such as today, theres a japanese bike event in chesterfield, and its given heavy rain at 11am. Nevermind. Im still here on the bike, and expect to get wet on the way home.

So ive got a morrisons bag for my phone haha.

And i got drenched on the way back.

Nevermind. Still enjoyed it

Cheeky wheelspin aswel. Slippy stuff.

Today's scooter run from Birmingham to the Severn Valley Railway was a washout.

I don't enjoy riding when it's going to be ****ing it down all day, but it won't stop me leaving the house if there's just chances of rain.

I also think biking needs your sort as well because the rest of us can pick up them cosseted bikes when you have finished them!

I don't get rid if then though, I just accumulate them. Of the seven bikes I've owned since I got my first one (21 years ago), I still own four of them, lol.

I like to keep my bikes spotless, but they're no show ponies, or trailer queens. When they're at home they get pampered, well maintained and kept spotlessly clean, when they're out they get ragged, ridden hard, and it's not unknown for them to finish the day upside down in a ditch - I've written my Bandit off three times, lol, and you'd be hard pressed to find one that's been ridden harder, or taken as much abuse, but she refuses to die, and always comes back for more, lol. You wouldn't contemplate buying her if you knew the hammering she's been given over the years since I rolled her out of Appleyards showroom brand new on August 1st 1998 (and rolled her back in for her first service three days later - the first of the twenty something bikes that went out on August 1st to come back in for its 500 mile service). Six days from new she was showing 1000 miles, fully run in and she's been ragged senseless and bounced off the rev limiter ever since, lol. I'll never sell her anyway, even if I give up bikes altogether (which is looking quite possible, now that osteoporosis means that riding bikes is probably less than sensible, especially when I get no enjoyment from pottering around slowly) - she's worth bugger all financially, and we have a lot of history together, so she'd just be retired to sit in the garage, or I might give her her another full rebuild onto one of my spare frames and restore her to her former glory. I might even have her buried with me when the time comes, lol.

For me bikes are toys, to be used and abused when the sun's shining and the tarmac's salt free, dry and warm, and tinkered with, modified, pampered and polished in between, so when they do go out they get plenty of admirers when parked up. Standard bikes bore me, and words have yet to be invented to describe just how much I hate riding in rain, so I don't do it.

Cheeky wheelspin aswel. Slippy stuff.

The only time riding in rain raises a smile. Body weight over the front end, dip the clutch, tw*t the throttle to the stop, and wriggle off up the road, wheelspinning and fishtailing , lol.

Ah, happy days of youthful exuberance, lol

And whoops, lol.

The only time riding in rain raises a smile. Body weight over the front end, dip the clutch, tw*t the throttle to the stop, and wriggle off up the road, wheelspinning and fishtailing , lol.

Ill be honest. I had a clenched bum before i smiled lol.

Its happened a few times now on the VFR. The vtec lurches it forwards as it reaches 7k revs. Even if not on full throttle.

Just nipping past a car, going steady cos of the conditions, rolling through the midrange to avoid a gear change. And it didnt go forward, it spun instaad.

Probably something on the road tbh.

But its a reminder of why i usually ride below vtec in the wet lol. I dno why i did tbh. I should of short shifted befote and used the torque, but it shouldnt of spun up that easy either.

Live and learn. Secret thrills on the way