aftermarket Trumpet

["Jonathan Schulster" <Schulster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Collected and fitted the Triumph 'sports exhaust' yesterday. Less than 10 mins to fit (two bolts - be careful the one on the rear peg is a 'tight' 12mm; dont use a 13mm!).  As someone else pointed out, it is 2-3" shorter than the stock pipe, which improves the look with the pannier bags fitted (the pipes are 'dropped', via a bracket off the pillion peg, to allow the hard bags to be fitted - the pipe then extends past the rear wheel too far).
The sound is a deep, soft growl; hardly louder in town that the stock pipe, but makes a lovely howl above 5000 revs.  It is much quieter than the equivalent CF race can on the T509/595/955i series (I had the low level one).  At least the one delivered here (Aluminium wrap) has no 'stamp' to indicate that it is a non-road legal can.  It has a huge 'Triumph' badge on the outside also.  I would be surprised if the bike didn't pass straight through the road certification (TuV) test with this pipe on - it is extremely inoffensive, to the point where anyone looking for a 'loud' race can would be best advised to try a different brand.
Just guessing from 'hand weighing' the original, it saves about 2-4kg in weight as well.

Jonathan



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