Noisy motorbikes

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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    TGOTB wrote:
    The Rookie wrote:
    A mate had an early Fireblade, he fitted a (not really very loud) 'race' exhaust, we drilled the pop rivets out of the manufacturer label on the stock exhaust and riveted it over the 'not for road use' marking on his new can!
    What was his reason for fitting the 'race' exhaust?
    In theory for power, in reality it sounded nicer with a harder edge, it was noisier than stock but you wouldn't have heard it and instantly thought it were modified. No problem at MOT with the plate moved over.
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    jamesco wrote:
    ...illegal plates, either angled up, written in a tiny fontsize or nothing at all. That'd be one easy way for the cops to write them up.

    LOL when I was a teen, the traffic police came to my school to do some road education; we were 17/18 so lots of new drivers and bikers (e.g. lots of really, really grisly photos of post-crash limbs, feet, etc). The two coppers were motorbike cops; they were late because they'd pulled over some guy with a tiny plate. Says one cop: "I flippin' hate them, I always pull them over" :twisted:

    Ever since, whenever I see a tiny plate on a bike, I think of that. And of that particular photo of a biker's foot after a crash where he'd not been wearing proper boots...really, really nasty
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    The Rookie wrote:
    In theory for power, in reality it sounded nicer with a harder edge, it was noisier than stock but you wouldn't have heard it and instantly thought it were modified. No problem at MOT with the plate moved over.
    Like I said further up the thread, noise for noise's sake. Selfish.
    Pannier, 120rpm.
  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Maybe but you can make a lot more noise on a legal bike by riding like a prat!
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    The Rookie wrote:
    Maybe but you can make a lot more noise on a legal bike by riding like a prat!
    Also selfish.
    Pannier, 120rpm.

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