the sound - Page 3

 


giving up your guns let a lot of rubbish happen.
you need a revolution and restoration of personal rights.
despite our myriad problems, the u.s. citizen can still switch governments
when needed. it's even required by the constitution.
"when in the course of human events......"
they lied when they said you'd be safer...

 GBURTON wrote:

Is it possible to fit the older Bonnie silencers which are legal
straight-throughs - my '70 Bonnie sounds great!

 Don Clarke wrote:

Strictly speaking that wouldn't clear the new bike legally. Those old
silencers are road-legal for the bikes they are intended for, but not
for later bikes which have different noise & emission specs. Mind you,
they won't be stamped "not for use on public roads" so it would take a
very keen and knowledgeable copper to spot the infringement!

Then again, sound is determined by more than the exhausts, and I
wouldn't assume that gburton's new bike would sound much like your '70
model just by fitting old-spec straight-throughs.

 

Thus spake Don Clarke (donseb@aapt.net.au) unto the assembled multitudes:

If you are of a sensitive disposition, please do not read on.




I had a Tiger 650 (TR6R) in the mid 1970s, the salad days of my mis-spent
youth.   When the silencers rotted away I couldn't afford new ones so I ran
it with just the downpipes for a while. Then when I realised it was a bit
noisy, I just hammered some lumps of wood into the downpipes. My oh my,
what terrible abuse that poor bike suffered at my hands.   It bit back
though, and seized an exhaust valve at 90mph one fateful afternoon, after
which it languished under a cover for two years until I sold it for little
more than scrap value to someone who wanted to restore it.  I am not proud
of any of this.

I now run a Trident 900 and I am far more conscientious in caring for it,
but it is a lot more reliable and deserving of respect.

:-)



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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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Again, probably far too late to be any use (I've only just hooked up to this
group) but the Norman Hyde HBS105 cans will more than satisfy - see my
earlier post!

http://www.normanhyde.co.uk/


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