Triumphrat

kballowe · 03-26-2006

All of my bikes have aftermarket exhaust. Between jetting and fuel injection maps and baffles and such, I thought (maybe) it was time to have just one bone stock.

So - how many of you out there have stayed with the factory exhaust?

Does it help or hurt fuel economy?

If I stay with the factory exhaust, is there anything else that I should be doing? K&N filter maybe, or AI removal?

Someone tell me what a Speedmaster sounds like with drag pipes
:hihi:

DP525 · 03-26-2006

Being the cheap arse that I am, I still have the factory exhaust. But....I removed the rear baffles. The folks at Triumph made the Bonneville so quiet I could not hear the engine over the wind noise above 40 mph. I don't have a tach so this was clearly a problem. So I yanked the rear baffles and now I can hear the exhaust at all speeds but it is still not obnoxiously loud. I won't be competing with the HD's in waking napping children and setting off car alarms.

CarlS · 03-26-2006

My wife is running TOR's on her T100 which, while louder than the stock pipes are certainly not gonna get her noticed by LEO. This are Triumph silencers. I ran stock pipes for several months; but I had removed the rear baffles and drilled out the remaining baffles. At least it sounded like a motorcycle.

DJ · 03-26-2006

I've got stocks on with the rear baffles removed, sounds better, but not much. I've got MotoTwin SS on order.

tba-golfer · 03-26-2006

I am standard stock no jetting nada. Got my eyes on some Triumph short slash pipes on E bay, but if the price is not right I intend to keep THAT part of the bike standard for a few thousand miles. Hey, they're chrome already!

iandel · 03-26-2006

G'day,

I have stock. I have heard D&D's & Whitneys and they are both too loud for me. I may go foORE's after I hear them. I like the stealth aproach. Also I know that if I have noisier pipes I will ride faster and I tend to ride fast enough already. :-D

CADIstari · 03-26-2006

Absolutely bone stock exhaust..... for now anyway... leaving for work at 4:30am keeps me a little skittish....

Nice, Sunny 40-something° day... won't be long now for "regular" riding!!

Be safe!

jreagan · 03-26-2006

My T100 is untouched. I enjoy the sound it makes and it seems to have enough power to haul by fat rear-end down the highway just fine. Heck, I still have the AI installed! The only thing I added was the Triumph backrest and a Dart flyscreen.

Dave_S · 03-27-2006

I am still all stock, but hopefully will have a shiny new set of Predators put on sometime soon.

PAAS · 03-27-2006

My T100 is stock as far as the exhausts/motor are concerned. Can't tell if it has any effect on fuel consumption as I have nothing to compare it with - I typically get around 125 miles before switching to reserve. I will put on a pair of MotoTwin's SS reverse cones if I ever find the £375 required burning a hole in my pocket - not very likely any time soon.

It's quite nice to ride a legal bike after 3 years on a loud Ducati with Termis, not that I ever got hassled by the Police - just the neighbours!. I'll admit it sounds like a sewing machine and the rustle from the valvetrain is louder than the exhaust - ridiculous. If I ride parallel with a car on a multilane road at anything above 40mph I can't hear my bike above the roar of the car's tyres. I've got an AI kit but not got around to fitting it yet.

Paul.