Underseat Or Standard Exhaust?

[Aikman666]

Ive been noticing recently that alot of the newer bikes all seem to have underseat exhausts (R1, 999, etc.) And i kinda wondered, because i know you all love your bigassed end cans and thier bigassed sound. Would you give that up to have an underseat exhaust?
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[dotti]

I can't vote one way or the other. I've never owned a bike with an under seat exhaust. I can imagine that the under seat version would come off much better in a low side, but it's probably easier to modify a non-under-the-seat exhaust.
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[instigator]

Only decent underseaters are the trend setting ducati's (748,916,996,998 etc) or the Mv agusta. The rest. I don't REALLY like.

To be honest, I much prefer exhausts like those on a firestorm or sp2. One on each side.

[Zoffo]

Underseats fry your luggage if you have throw-overs
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[Josh|RD125LC]

I prefer twins on one side like the RS250, RGV etc. They look mean, but one on either side is very nice as well.
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[Wave2k]

Underseat for Young people
Standard ones for old wee wee people
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[Bendy]

I like underseats when some thought has gone into them and they suit the bike.

I don't like bikes with a pointy arse with a big fat can sticking out like an afterthought. And I don't like when the link pipes go outside the swingarm, looks messy.

Not that I'm fussy or 'owt.

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[zaknafien]

They arent bad but I prefer one pipe either side, preferably high level cans.
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[BLOFLY 636]

My personal favorites are the ducati 916 style and the old set up that the TL 1000R came out with, it was a pipe either side of the bike that came out of the engine area and kicked up and in towards the upper end of the bike Moriwaki came up with the same design for a slip on pipe for my ZX-6R but I threw the add out and never could find the product again so I went with the standard set up in a micron can
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[gsxrpeak]

depends on the bike! like you would not want an underseat exhaust on a hayabusa! but on a R1 it looks mean!
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[ProXimaCore]

I would normally say Standard. But in the case of an R6 v an R1. I think the R1 with the underseat exhaust looks amazing. The new ZX6R one looks terrible in my opinion.
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[ash t]

I love the RSVR and SP2 cans. Underseat cans make for a boring looking bike IMO
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[california_rookie]

I've got a side-mount exhaust and I feel I could deal with the loss of some under seat space and the gain of some under-arse warmth for the sexiness that is an under seat pipe. Mostly just for aesthetic reasons, in all honesty.
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[tony532]

its to do with centralization isnt it ?.

makes everything closer to the centre of gravity


could be the beer talking though

[Stu_666]

I'd have to go with underseat as they do look more tidier and can be sext on the right bike (Ducati 999 ).

Downside is that they don't leave much room for one's sarnies

[Silver]

Standard for me - if you have underseat you can't change the can for something posy like a Yoshi or Akarapovic and have anyone be able to actually see it (apart from the last three inches).

[/pose mode]

Understeat exhausts roast everything in the back of your bike and you get less power.

[Noggin]

Akraprovic are doing end cans now for their underseat exhausts, at least thats what I thought I read in mcn this week. Add about 4bhp.



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[Kickstart]

Hi

Most underseat exhaust look fairly vile, and you also land up with the back of the bike shoved up in the air as though it has been rear ended.

Only ones that look good are the MV F4 and a few 2 strokes (Cagiva Freccia C9, reverse cylinder TZR250).

All the best

Keith
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[Gazdaman]

I like the underseat 'zorst on the '05 CBR6rr, that looks gorgeous.

Everything else is just transport.

J/k, I do like underseat exhausts, but only on that bike, other than that, it's a high level, side mount all the way.

Gaz

[Marc_Buck]

Looks good on ducati's the jap bikes look shite with it.

But i also dont like a can on either side like a rsv mille busa or sp2.

I like a big mean can on the side.
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[Flip]

If a bike is designed with an underseat can they look very cool, (Ducati's etc). But I don't like after market conversions. Personally I like to have a cannon on the side.

[slowbike smallpenis]

who said the zx6 under looks bad?
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