Hello All.
New to the forum. So hello! out there!
Just bought my CB1100 and love it. However first mod is exhaust. It seems a bit quite and want to increase my presence on the road for safety.
Any mod suggestions to make the exhaust loud?
Thanks!
Howdy and welcome to the forum. Have no experience on the pipe to help you, I like quiet, but many here have modified their exhausts from cutting or drilling a stocker to a slip on to a full system.Some should be along shortly with suggestions. Guess it depends on how LOUD you want it.
(08-14-2017, 04:51 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ] Howdy and welcome to the forum. Have no experience on the pipe to help you, I like quiet, but many here have modified their exhausts from cutting or drilling a stocker to a slip on to a full system.Some should be along shortly with suggestions. Guess it depends on how LOUD you want it.
Thanks The Ferret!
Im driving around the city so loud enough for car drivers to have increased awareness. T
G'day, James, and welcome to the forum. Forgive the dissenting note, but I'm not at all sure increasing the exhaust noise of your bike does the slightest thing to increase drivers' awareness of your existence.
But there are options. Staintune offers a slight increase in volume. Two Brothers; Yoshimura; Delvik; Arrow all make slip ons and at least one of them offers a removable baffle to increase the noise.
(08-14-2017, 07:32 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I like mine quite quiet 
And Welcome James
Welcome.
And if I may, on the subject of "loud enough":
The sound of a motorcycle is "good" when:
a) It does not annoy those present that do not ride the said motorcycle.
b) The level and modulation of the sound suggests that all mechanical components are in perfect working order.
It is "bad" when either of the two conditions above is not fully satisfied.
Those that design motorcycles pay as much attention to the sound of it as they pay to the "fit and finish" - it is, after all, what sells motorcycles.
It is not unconceivable that some two-bit after-market motorcycle gear vendor might stumble on a design that will produce a "better" sound than the original designers, but I have yet to see one such. More likely than not, they just produce something that is louder and annoys those that do not ride the motorcycle more.
(tis just a long way to concur with the "I like mine quite quiet
" statement made already).
I like my quiet exhaust on my CB1100, a nice change from the other bikes I've been riding the past 40 years.
At the Southern Ontario meet I compared stock 2013 exhaust to a staintune, Wyvern, and stock 2017 in a video series. It's in a thread here and on YouTube. It'd be a start, all were done with the same phone, from the same distance in the same environment. Good luck, I toy with the idea of changing the exhaust from time to time but there are leather jackets to collect, track days/bikes to pay for, vacations and excursions to plan and execute, the sound of my exhaust keeps falling lower and lower on the priorities list I may never get to it...
(08-14-2017, 05:24 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]G'day, James, and welcome to the forum. Forgive the dissenting note, but I'm not at all sure increasing the exhaust noise of your bike does the slightest thing to increase drivers' awareness of your existence.
But there are options. Staintune offers a slight increase in volume. Two Brothers; Yoshimura; Delvik; Arrow all make slip ons and at least one of them offers a removable baffle to increase the noise.
What a wonderfully polite way to put it! I doubt I'd show the same restraint. But as I learned in kindergarten: "If you don't have anything nice to say..." well, you know the rest : )
(08-14-2017, 05:24 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]G'day, James, and welcome to the forum. Forgive the dissenting note, but I'm not at all sure increasing the exhaust noise of your bike does the slightest thing to increase drivers' awareness of your existence.
But there are options. Staintune offers a slight increase in volume. Two Brothers; Yoshimura; Delvik; Arrow all make slip ons and at least one of them offers a removable baffle to increase the noise.
With all the traffic noise most drivers have their windows up. They also have the air conditioning fan on, the radio or cell phone on, and are easily distracted by everything going on around them or in the car. Making more noise is not going to help.
The onus is on you to remain alert in traffic. If you rely on others to do that, you are going to get hurt. It's like Dodgeball, but the balls are a lot heavier because they are made of steel and glass.