Sound Quality And Fruity Exhausts

[fixitsan]

And we wonder why Cops and the general public don't like us, noisy hooligans that we are.

My TDM came with standard and a on a whim I went for the Scorpions. My first impression came on a run into Edinburgh, while filtering, when all of a sudden i noticed people started to be much more aware of me.

My KTM was the same when it had it's almost open pipe exhaust. People just seemed to be looking for me when they could hear me coming. Following the self destruction of that can I went back to standard quiet on the KTM, and now I'm aware that people can't hear me coming at all.

 

Of course, personal safety is based on  the rider's responsiibility, and their ability to read the road and not take risks, we shouldn't assume other people have seen us, but instead assume people have not heard or seen us when we're riding.

 

I used to think loud exhausts were antisocial, I still do in fact because open pipes are too much, but having experienced the clear demonstrable benefit of generating more noise I'm now in the fence.

 

Sadly the times are changing, and noise checks are expected to be introduced quite soon, on the MOT test