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Wooly R6
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PostPosted: 22:29 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Exhaust Limit's Reply with quote
Why do sportsbike owners have a law that says we are not allowed race cans when harley owners can have their bikes as loud as their engine bloody allows!!!! Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad

it winds me up, i aint ever heard of a harley owner getting a ticket!!
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 22:31 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Law applies the same to both.

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PostPosted: 22:33 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Re: Exhaust Limit's Reply with quote
As Kickstart says, the law is the same for both, just as the law also applies to chav-mobiles.

The difference comes with the riding of the sports riders compared to the cruiser boys - you're not too likely to get a hog rider doing 100mph on one wheel.
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Wooly R6
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PostPosted: 22:36 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
so how do harleys get through an mot - with a deaf mot tester?
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PostPosted: 22:48 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wooly R6 wrote:
so how do harleys get through an mot - with a deaf mot tester?


The same way sportsbikes do.

Don't disrespect the hog engine, it doesn't just appear in cruisers!

Do you know what? I bloody hate these whiney jap bikes with their screamer piercing race cans.

I don't know how they pass an MOT, especially as it is proven that higher frequency noise carries further and annoys more! Wink

People in glass houses etc etc!
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PostPosted: 22:48 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
If a Harley comes to me with Screamin' Eagles on then it fails in just the same way as an R1 with an Akrapovic.
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PostPosted: 22:49 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Re: Exhaust Limit's Reply with quote
McJamweasel wrote:
You're not too likely to get a hog rider doing 100mph on one wheel.


Maybe not a *hog* per se... Shifty
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PostPosted: 22:50 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
McJamweasel wrote:
If a Harley comes to me with Screamin' Eagles on then it fails in just the same way as an R1 with an Akrapovic.


I went to the dealer I bought the bike from. They said that if my bike had a race can it wouldn't pass.

Then I told them I bought the bike from them.

The proprietors answer was simply:

"Eh?"
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Aikman666
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PostPosted: 23:05 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its something i always wondered - i think the Suberu Impretza rolls out the factory much louder as stock than any race can ive heard. Even worse are the ones with the aftermarket exhausts, yet they still get away with it. No roadside checks for them.
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 23:08 - 15 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

Cars have lower exhaust noise limits than bikes, and do get hassle over it.

Only reason the more intrusive rules were brought in with BS markings and the like on bike exhaust was because so many bikes had noisy exhausts.

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PostPosted: 00:06 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:


Don't disrespect the hog engine, it doesn't just appear in cruisers!


I'm dissing them Razz They are vibey, slow, underpowered and don't even make as much torque as they should do to make up for it.

That was a 1340cc fuel injected engine with screamin eagle exhaust and flappy about air inlet thingy. It was pish, noisy but pish, struggled to hit 95 on the seven mile bridge in the Florida Keys.

They can be made to go faster but only if you replace most of the parts with different ones.
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stinkwheel wrote:


They can be made to go faster but only if you replace most of the parts with different ones.




That was such a colin1 comment Laughing
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TOM M wrote:

That was such a colin1 comment Laughing


Or was it something so deeply metaphysical it would take years of contemplation to understand it?
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PostPosted: 09:40 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
MarJay wrote:


Don't disrespect the hog engine, it doesn't just appear in cruisers!


I'm dissing them Razz They are vibey, slow, underpowered and don't even make as much torque as they should do to make up for it.

That was a 1340cc fuel injected engine with screamin eagle exhaust and flappy about air inlet thingy. It was pish, noisy but pish, struggled to hit 95 on the seven mile bridge in the Florida Keys.

They can be made to go faster but only if you replace most of the parts with different ones.


Well thats funny, cos mine is good for 130, probably 140 with dropped gearing (cos it wouldn't rev out in top). Smile
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PostPosted: 10:31 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its kinda dumb to say a Harley is slow. Its a fucking cruiser. ITs built to get you from A to B in comfort, And I think they do a pretty good job.

Its like saying an Offroad bike is SHIT because it dosnt courner like an r1 on tarmac....
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PostPosted: 10:41 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
GearboxGeezer wrote:
Its like saying an Offroad bike is SHIT because it dosnt courner like an r1 on tarmac....


Or flip that on it's head and say an R1 is shit cos it can't even get round a corner offroad, in fact it struggles to even go forward in mud...
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Finglonga
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PostPosted: 11:14 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
GearboxGeezer wrote:
Its kinda dumb to say a Harley is slow. Its a fucking cruiser. ITs built to get you from A to B in comfort, And I think they do a pretty good job.

Its like saying an Offroad bike is SHIT because it dosnt courner like an r1 on tarmac....


Nah.......Its built to get from A to B in style and comfort. Wink

You hear a harley throbbing down the street and think Hmmm nice, You hear a poweranger on his race rep and think what a sad twat. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 11:19 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:

Nah.......Its built to get from A to B in style and comfort. Wink

You hear a harley throbbing down the street and think Hmmm nice, You hear a poweranger on his race rep and think what a sad twat. Mr. Green
I tend to think of it the other way round.
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Finglonga wrote:

You hear a poweranger on his race rep and think what a sad twat. Mr. Green


I love it to be honest, park up at the bike rank in town and sometimes being carried from miles away you can hear the warcry of a bike Mr. Green

*10 mins later you actually see the bike*
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PostPosted: 11:27 - 16 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
Do you know what? I bloody hate these whiney jap bikes with their screamer piercing race cans.


Oi...

not all jap bikes are whiney! Razz

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I live very close to a long straight. and when im outside on a sunny day, you often hear things being ragged up there. Cars, AWSOME sounding bikes, my mates aprilia mille sounds hellish going up there. Have heard a few cruisers giving it some too, and they sound like a rapid-fire spud gun Laughing

i dont mind hearing lour bikes, i like to hear an engine working. when its muffled behind layers of baffle plates it sounds trapped.
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McGee wrote:

I love it to be honest, park up at the bike rank in town and sometimes being carried from miles away you can hear the warcry of a bike Mr. Green

*10 mins later you actually see the bike*


Exactly all noise and no go!https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/finglonga/Finglonga%20Inc/thumb.gif
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