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Posted: 15:38 - 16 Aug 2018 Post subject: 125s sound like hairdryers....or do they? |
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BTW I think I fixed my bike issues from the last couple of posts
one thing loads of people say about their 125s weather its a yzf or a cruiser or anything really that's masked to look larger than its cc is they look the dogs bollocks to the untrained eye until the key goes in the ignition and the buzzy engine sounds like a silenced lawnmower.
when I had this issue I couldn't find a post about it so I decided to make one
I built a set of straight pipes for my shadow 125. Number 1 reason why i did paralleled why I bought the shadow in the first place and that's to fool people that don't ride or don't know their bikes well into thinking its a full sized bike and hell, it works a treat.
I built a set of pipes for it, twin shotgun pipes running almost to the back of the fender, I did some experimenting for those who also want to take their 125 and piss off literally everyone within a mile radius of your house.
the longer and wider your pipes are the deeper it'll sound, which is what you want when trying to get away from the tinny sound of a 125. I welded up my own set and they look and sound pretty badass
this will annoy 90% of the readers because it seems there's a lot of stock exhaust having, high vis wearing ATGATT fellows that aren't fans of spotty kids straight piping their poxy 125s and ragging them around
at the end of the day a 125 will always feel like that, but im tellin ya its better leavin the party sounding loud and deep as fuck than people thinking someone's on a sewing machine ____________________ 98' RZ50, 92' H100S2, 03' VT125, 59' Jubilee 250, 05' varadero chop, |
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Posted: 16:04 - 16 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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" bought the shadow in the first place and that's to fool people that don't ride or don't know their bikes well into thinking its a full sized bike"
Really?
Your bike doesn't sound better, it sounds like a lawnmower with a dodgy homemade exhaust on it. |
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Posted: 18:58 - 16 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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I think it's often down to daft large bore aftermarket exhausts why some/many 125's sound like long drawn out farts personally. Bore size is a thing, and stupid belly pan exit shorty megas sound worse of all. A long wet fart through a Marshall stack kind of bad.
I still think that every bike in the world needs a straight through exhaust and absorption silencing. No flow restrictions should always make the most power, and the quieter a factory exhaust is the more likely that there's extra power hiding away with a free flowing system.
A 125cc twin that Revs to 11-12000rpm should not sound very fart like at all if you get the exhaust system right IMO.
Std 125's exhausts maybe sound better than a huge fart cannon, but take a bike like a CG125 or CBF they have an annoying muted chuffing sound more like a steam train than a motorbike.
Anyway consider yourself lucky. A mate popped round mine and heard my 125's new exhaust, and then said 'it sounds like a right chicken chaser now'. I was more hoping for a 'that sounds just like a 1980's British MX GP start line'
Oh well, I best get back in the shed and re-build the top end then on my chicken chaser! |
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Posted: 19:01 - 16 Aug 2018 Post subject: Re: 125s sound like hairdryers....or do they? |
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My bike sounds like a sewing machine but I don't feel inadequate or ashamed to be seen on it.
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A Street Triple?! What has gone wrong?
If it's on standard pipes, you really ought to bring some new instruments into the orchestra. They just sound great when everything comes on song together. It's half the reason I loved mine, adds so much to the character
125s with loud pipes? Nothing more annoying. It's just noise for the sake of it, doesn't sound good at all, made all the worse because they linger within earshot for so much longer. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 19:45 - 16 Aug 2018 Post subject: Re: 125s sound like hairdryers....or do they? |
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I've been looking for something that isn't going to hack me off in terms of a constant drone on longer spins, that's when I appreciate my stocks. |
I can appreciate that. Mine was a short distance nut bike, so whenever I rode it, it meant I was in nut mode - if I wasn't, I soon would be ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I'd be surprised, if we put up a poll, on how many here have bikes with standard cans, if more than 10% were 'Standard', its one of the most common mods to a motorcycle. I'd be even more surprised if we blagged a bB meter and tested bikes at almost any meet, if much more than 25% of them were legally 'quite'...
Actually a rather sad state of affairs when the ACU do just that, and the only ones that meet noise regs are the ones on the bloomin track!
As to spotty oiks making too much noise.... they are annoying..... and don't need a motorcycle to help them any IME....
By any chance did you manage to weld your shot-gun pipes to the out-put sprocket to a 20-thou accuracy by eye? ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Totally obnoxious and a fire risk. I'll worry about in when my bike needs its first MOT. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 281 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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