Exhaust note

**avgas** · 30th December 2004, 20:54

well lets see, i used to love the rumbles of a nice singles, twins never did it for me (not a big fan of helicopters landing), love 2 stroke screams.
Have to agree on the triples - the best sound so far (wot about a 2 stroke triple???)
Fours.....well.....they can sound winey, F1 style ring the guts out.....but when i found a ZXR, its exhaust is bridged, so it doesnt quite sound like a 4, twin or a rotary. And mine has a Laser Exhaust designed for a ZX9R, so its music to my ears
Sucks sitting at 100k, doin 6K revs (no more no less) going deaf - stupid harmonics

**Mongoose** · 30th December 2004, 21:00

Man would be telling porkies if he did not admit to liking the sound of his own bike, so Guzzi on full noise or full over run, does it for me.
Trumpy Hurricane, now that is a totally different noise, have spent many an hour following one of these, magic sounds.

**Sensei** · 30th December 2004, 21:09

My Speed triple was great sounding but kept blowing up so have to listen to a full Ti system with genuine Tri oval Yosy Muffler on my 03 GSXR1000 life's tough but getting use to it with help from 165HP

SENSEI

**Motu** · 30th December 2004, 21:28

Originally Posted by wari

At the cemetary circuit on Boxing Day I was impressed with the exhaust note of one of the BSA B31's ... it sounded real sweet and was obviously tuned to perfection.

What bikes are out there, that you love to hear the sound of their exhaust ?

I always had open pipes on my B31s,never used a muffler at all,although ran a slash cut with the M20.At one stage I was running some weird cams I never found the timings for with a megaphone,shit that was noisy,had the whole BaaaBaaaBaaaBaaaaaaa bit when you backed off,I couldn't get enough of the sound,but I don't think my neighbours were too impressed when I had an early start when doing shifts.

My XLV750 sounded glorious...to me,but apparently just sounded like a couple of XR250s to bystanders.

Gotta say,Tridents are the best sounding bike ever made - I always made my wife ride in front so I could listen to her bike....

Best bike I have EVER!!! heard? The MV's when Ago came over,you could hear those things all the way around Puke,a totaly animal sound,like nothing I've heard before - and Ago's shifts??,I've never heard anyone change gear like it.

**scumdog** · 30th December 2004, 21:33

Man, changing down when two-up on a long down-hill on my 'S' gives me goose-bumps, SO cool eh!!

**TwoSeven** · 30th December 2004, 21:53

Honda did an inline 6 cylinder 250 that I like the sound of - it was built for the TT.

**Monsterbishi** · 31st December 2004, 07:09

Add me to the list of people that love the sound of the TL1000's...

**F5 Dave** · 31st December 2004, 10:30

This is going to sound crap but I always recall the sound of a redlined XJ550 with a 4 into1 screammming an ethereal wail. That’s all they are good for though.
A lot of people remark on my YZF with the V&H pipe.

I like my GasGas flat out.

Better still is a V Twin NSR500V. Sounds like 2 angry CR250s & man do they boogie.

**Juan** · 31st December 2004, 10:45

would agree about the 250 Honda 6... awsome

my F4 is rather nice!!!

2003's Moto gp Ducati was spine tingleing

**gav** · 31st December 2004, 11:07

C'mon hasnt anyone got any sound bites posted so we can hear some of these?
Heres a new Norton
Norton
Or how about a 1957 Guzzi V8?
Guzzi V8
or Mike Hailwood on the Honda 350?
Hailwood Honda 350
Ago !!
Ago!!
You can find more here, turn up your speakers !!!!
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Sounds.htm

**crazylittleshit** · 31st December 2004, 11:22

SP1 Followed one up to wanganui on sunday sounded great.

P.s I love my scorpion pipe.

**betti** · 31st December 2004, 11:34

any big suzook 4 with an unrestrained pipe and nicely tuned sounds bloody
awesome, but ive gotta admit to a soft spot for big ducati's with termi pipes, just wouldnt want to own one!

happy new year to everybody, only 25 days til my bike gets here!!

**Mongoose** · 31st December 2004, 11:36

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

This is going to sound crap but I always recall the sound of a redlined XJ550 with a 4 into1 screammming an ethereal wail. That’s all they are good for though.
A lot of people remark on my YZF with the V&H pipe.

I like my GasGas flat out.

Better still is a V Twin NSR500V. Sounds like 2 angry CR250s & man do they boogie.

Four into ones ALWAYS sound like you are ringing the bejeeezes out of them. In days gone by it was a sure way to attract Mr Plod and make him believe you MUST have been speeding.

Wonder how I know these things

**moko** · 31st December 2004, 13:27

Recently best sounding bike was the CBR600-wheeled XL500(!!!) run by a local bloke with straight-through pipe,whole bike was totally outrageous,it was on Ebay and I thought"neat" no-one bought it then I saw it on the road and I was kicking myself,overtook me a week later and I`m stil regretting not following the guy and asking "how much?"
Prior to that I saw a yoshi CB750 owned by a Persian(as they were known then) back in 1975.CB750 was hot-shit enough back then let alone 4-1(never even heard of them until then) and mag Wheels(truly exotic,think that far back they cost about the same as the bike)mind-blowing sound at the time.Then there was the guy on the GT750 Suzi with the race expansion chambers that did a "fly-by" of a local Kawasaki dealer`s open-day and had the un-divided attention of absolutely everyone,heard the bloody thing coming for about 2 minutes before he went a-holing past,not even close to legal.