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mike23118
Member Since: 01 Oct 2010
Location: North Wales
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a bit like this
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 2nd Jun 2020 6:58 pm |
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Paul J.
Member Since: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Leafy Cheshire
Posts: 7627
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I’ll just leave this here: https://lightningmotorcycle.com/
An ex-Disco3 / FFRR owner ......
..... now on the JLR electric highway.
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| 2nd Jun 2020 6:58 pm |
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Charliecloud
Member Since: 31 Jul 2014
Location: Tonbridge
Posts: 980
 
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mike23118 wrote:a bit like this
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| 2nd Jun 2020 7:09 pm |
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Riccarton Disco
Member Since: 24 Jan 2013
Location: Scottish Borders
Posts: 565
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I'm a biker and live on a wonderful bike road in the Scottish Borders.
I'm not bothered by loud pipes so long as they sound nice - what really REALLY gets my goat are peeps riding bikes along in 3rd gear making more noise than necessary while tootling along!!
Also, those that use loud 'cans' should ensure they can ride with mechanical sympathy!!! Nothing worse than down changes without balancing the revs or holding a gear too long when it's played at full volume 
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| 12th Aug 2020 8:23 pm |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8139
 
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That was a point I made in an earlier post, it really does mark them out as
Some will try and argue it's holding it with the benefit of having immediate engine braking and/or acceleration. Its the theatre front road in Stratford-upon-Avon not the straights at Silverstone head....... 
I've just sold my Ducati and replaced it with a Vespa 300, nothing offensive in it's putt-putt exhaust sound 
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| 13th Aug 2020 10:52 am |
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Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
Posts: 1418
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James W wrote:What's the gig with illegal, deafining exhaust pipes? Since lockdown there seems to have been a big surge in bikes on the road as presumably motorcyclists have more essential journies and they just love using the roundabout nearby for standing starts.
I can't figure out what it is though with the ridiculous noise? Is it some kind of competition? Is it a sexual thing - Do you use them to impress or attract other like-minded men?
I also assume you have to fit a normal, legal exhaust pipe and stop riding it like a for one day to get your MOT?
Curious. 
Surely it's obvious ? It makes the man-parts between their legs (and I'm not talking about the bike ) bigger. Clearly the ones who have loud exhausts feel a bit inadequate down there and this is a way to compensate.
On a more serious note we get a lot of bikes going through our village (on their way up into the Pennines for a day out) and I'd say 90% have 'normal' exhausts and stick more or less to the 30mph limit while going through. But that still leaves 10% of s who have this inadequacy that compels them to break the law ...
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| 13th Aug 2020 11:11 am |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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There was a crack down on loud pipes in the local town centre in 2010. I had a new Focus RS at the time, complete with standard factory exhaust, which the police pulled me over for and seriously tried to give me a ticket for!
They kept me for about 20 minutes while they thoroughly tested it (which involved a very ignorant policeman listening to it for about 10 minutes) until they reluctantly agreed that it was quiet and let me go. But before they did, they went over the rest of the car throughly, which was as it left the showroom. Fools!
What a waste of time With stupidity like that, there’s little chance of picking up on the actual law breakers. 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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| 13th Aug 2020 12:56 pm |
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Discoveringcomfort
Member Since: 16 Sep 2015
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 637
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Try living in the Philippines, most bikes are 180cc single cyl 4 strokes but all have open cans to amplify the sound.
24 hours of v slow bikes making a horrible racket.
The house is 100yrds from a main island road.
Back in the UK bikes made before 1980 I think, only need to have a "visible sign of silencing", not meet a decibel limit. Series 1 V8
Series 2 Hibrid V8
Discovery 3 HSE V8
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| 13th Aug 2020 1:09 pm |
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mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2521
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astonbuilder wrote:I've just sold my Ducati and replaced it with a Vespa 300, nothing offensive in it's putt-putt exhaust sound
blimey thats as near to admitting to a sex change as ive ever heard MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
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| 13th Aug 2020 2:35 pm |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8139
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Not quite
Was going to hang the helmet up for good but this at least keeps me on two wheels a bit longer 
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| 13th Aug 2020 9:24 pm |
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