What ever happened to 'the can'

[chris-red]

I for one think bikes in general look better with a traditional can, alot of new bikes have these style exhausts that look hideous. Is this just me getting old?


Good

https://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/ZX6R%20636%20B1H/Random/3.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/chris-red/IMG_0061.jpg

https://foto.scigacz.pl/cache/imgs/_w750/gallery/uzywane/Ducati_916_godzina_9_16_czyli_czas_na_legende/Ducati_916_termignoni.jpg

OK

https://www.bikebits4you.com/images/categories/er-6n2.jpg

https://www.motorcyclesupermarket.com/images/bikes/images/10781.1267050035.A.jpg

Baaaaad

https://www.visordown.com/uploads/images/Large/15709.JPG

https://www.encyclomoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/gsxr1000_2007_01_thaaaaaaaa.jpg
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[HD]

Couldn't agree more!

It seems the only decent looking cans are aftermarket which means more money if your buying a bike.
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[Carl_steveo]

I don't think your getting old, I'm 22 and I way prefer the old style cans than the new designer fag cans.
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[MinhDinh]

Standard cans have never been great looking IMO.

Old ones were huge and too plain and shiny.

Bikes need to have a market for exhaust companies IMO. Not sure if they get any form of commision, but keeping the costs down.
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[Billing]

Couldn't agree more, very very few new bikes have nice looking exhausts from the factory, the above examples are spot on IMO
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[waffles]

Im totally with you, the can on my TT looks like a spud gun but IMO is a lot better than the stock cans on modern bikes. Why the sudden shift in design style?
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[pinkyfloyd]

I'm with the majority.

The new exhausts are fuglier than fugly.

https://www.sportmotorcycles.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Honda-CBR1000RR-2010-SuperSport-Motorcycles.JPG

WTF has happened to this?

https://www.indiancarsbikes.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Honda-vfr1200-Motorcycle-2010-India.jpg

Even the VMax has suffered fuglyitus

https://www.besportier.com/archives/2010-motorcycle-cruisers-yamaha-star-stratoliner-deluxe.jpg

Not nice. I'm sure theres some bollocks about emission laws etc that they can blame for it but sheesh a little design wouldnt go amis
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[imanupstart]

Cans are always the first thing I change on a bike, suzuki are the worst imo, horrible whale cock exhaust
https://static.blogo.it/motoblog/suzuki-gsx-r-600-e-1000-replica-tourist-trophy-2008/Suzuki_GSXR_600_Replica_TT_1.jpg

[Teflon-Mike]

I dont know. Remember the early 80's when people still commented that tapering 'maga-phone' exhausts looked funny compared to the old pea-shooter, and thought that two-stroke expansion chambers just looked daft!
Then BMW, not renouned for being particularly avante-guarde; still extolling the virtues of a 1912 Duglas 3 1/3 turned sideways and given shaft drive, released, 'the brick'.
https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2663872252_768d382d23.jpg
It was something of a shock to the system, after the old push-rod boxers, with a double overhead cam, 16v water-cooled, four cylinder motor, mounted on its side, longdetudinally, and curiousely many just couldn't quite accept it, so more column inches of magazine reviews and pub debate were devoted to the 'concept four' = "square" styling.... that included the square section exhaust, that was probably THE most talked about feature!
Personally? I am ambivolent. I'm not that exited about modern bikes any more, dont think anything has got me particularly exited since the original fire-blade, in 93, and the '97 ZX6 Ninja, sealed my lack of enthusiasm; bikes were becoming 'boring'.
They were going like leggo. All the fancy special 'parts' to make a space-ship that actuually looked like the space shuttle, rather than a heavily pixilated aproximation, that made the model on the box so much more like what you expected, but that you couldn't use to make a funky speed-boat instead.....
Modern sports bikes are even more like that; the whole thing is styled as a whole, the exhausts are just one styling queue, and I suppose if the styling 'works' as a whole, and the exhausts 'fit' in that styling theme, then they look 'OK'... certainly a lot better than that box on the back of the 'brick'!
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[Walloper]

I think my bike has an exhaust fitted somewhere on it.
It was on when I bought it and it still works fine. So no need to change it.
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[HD]

I was going to mention the new VFR!

I swear crossers are the only ones to come with normal exhausts nowadays.
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[Frost]

A lot of it is trying to emulate motoGP exhausts, except that they need a lot of silencing, and often cat's to get through emissions, so its a caseif trying to cram all that crap into there. I'm not a fan of the old style cans so much either, they're usually too long and wide due to being round. Ideally i think the exhaust should be as close to invisible as possible, either coming out the belly pan, or the seat unit. e.g.

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3565/3290606375_5a651c3412.jpg?v=0

Epic win.

[baldy]

under seat cans for the win. I think the akra on my blade is sexy as fook. I almost want to make love to it every time i open the garage door.

Just seeing its gaping hole that spews out the sound of angels and sometimes a few tears when its cold...

Exhausts are like a womans butt, you want it to look good and be seen not hidden under thier armpit or sticking out of thier side.

So, erm....

under seat are best. It's where they belong.
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[Rogerborg]

I'd bet that spazzer exhausts were introduced as a way to tell modern SuperSportsTouring-stylee bikes apart. And now they all have them, and all look the same again.

[G]

As above, not a new thing, just seems to be the current stylish:
https://www.vyxxn.co.uk/catalog/images/honda%20bros650.jpg
Ok, not quite the same, but similar enough.

[rac3r]

https://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m130/dt1111/CIMG1071.jpg

The new MV F4 with the squared of exhausts are nice too
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[lewis87]

I put the standard exhaust back on my R1 and I think it looks good for a standard can I even like how it looks so huge, like a piece of artillery I don't think you need to be old to like a more "traditional" exhaust, I was only 11 when my R1 was new. I had an 07 ZX6R with an underseat akrapovic and I liked that too though.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/lewis203/DSC01128.jpg

[HD]

[UnspeedySam]

[lewis87]

[HD]

So what is your aftermarket zorst like then?

I would have kept that!
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[lewis87]

[Wilson12345]

Stock exhausts ruin the look of the bike

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QEKFOK_r_p4/TONgWEokbTI/AAAAAAAABB8/cw3d3urRcMg/s1600/suzuki+hayabusa+2010.jpg

Stands out like a sore thumb :l we need moar stubby cans and such
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