Euro4 Ruins a Ducati

[Alex A]

Before:

https://uncrate.com/p/2013/09/ducati-899-panigale-motorcycle-xl.jpg

Pretty much perfection.

After:

https://images.mcn.bauercdn.com/PageFiles/555992/1752x1168/959PANIGALE_1.jpg?mode=max&quality=90&scale=down

[Rogerborg]

Sure that's Euro 4? The Japanese have some pretty stringent noise limits as well.
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[Alex A]

So say MCN. So obviously it must be true.

Either way, technocracy ruins a Ducati.

[Polarbear]

Can someone photoshop the background to the same as the first picture?
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[BrownTrousers]

Even given Euro4 or similar, there must be better solutions? That exhaust is a disaster.
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I like both but wouldn't put hard earned cash against either.
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[Howling Terror]

I can only imagine the size of the collector box and catalytic converter...and it ain't gonna be dainty.


Proposed US model
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mFVVHooq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1521889205646417733.jpg
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[Snod Blatter]

I quite like it

Harks back to a time when we were allowed to see exhausts, I can't decide if this time is the eighties or nineties..
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[Alex A]

The problem is that they're not at all in keeping with the styling of the bike. In fact, they're very obviously a last minute bodge. If they can't fit good enough silencers under the bike, then underseat silencers would be a better fit to the styling. Or twin exhausts at either side.

But it's OK. You can buy your £13k+ 'middleweight' bike, and then you can spend another £3,600 on the full Termi race system that does fit under the bike, where the exhaust is supposed to be. Horrah

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[.Chris.]

Almost looks like a really poor attempt at copying the stacked twin exhausts off something like an RGV/RS250.
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[mysterious_rider]

I prefer it.
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[stevo as b4]

Who exactly cares, and why is OP being so over sensitive about it?
If your in the market for an 899 or it's successor, then you'll still buy it with the slightly ugly new exhaust too. Ruin's is a bit of a strong word, and too PMT for my liking.

As mentioned in thread, anyone who can afford the cost of a new 959 and wants to own one, will also stand the cost of a full racing Termignoni system or similar.

The only way Euro 4 can ruin a bike is in terms or drivability. And even then if you want to pay out for a cat delete system and re-map or aux ECU fiddler, then it can probably always be sorted out at a cost.

[Alex A]

I am deliberately exaggerating the sh*ts given.

Yes it can be sorted. But it's obviously not what Ducati wanted to do, or it wouldn't look so much of a bodge, and they wouldn't keep the under-belly exhaust in the US. So it's there to meet regulations, which just ends up costing the customer more to put 'right'.

You're also at 1299 money with the 959 + full system. And the 1299 includes a free £2600 exhaust at the moment.

[Llama-Farmer]

Aftermarket exhausts will still be belly collectors like the original 899.

It's to pass Euro 4 test in the state that it leaves the factory, what happens afterwards Ducati care not.
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[RhynoCZ]

I like the EURO 4 version, looks a bit more classic (90's).
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[Pigeon]

Fingers crossed the US conversion is simple to do, because damn, that's fugly.

[andys675]

yes it's for real

and no they won't cost £3600 as they're cans not a full system, but that'll depend on whether they're made by termi or akrapovic
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[The Bike Dork]

Totally agree. I hate euro 4 - the cans look and sound horrible now. An after market silencer is practically mandatory now!

[Andy_Pagin]

Is it just me? or do those cans...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4105/34803149433_376c1d34ff_z.jpg
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