(25-07-16, 01:45 PM)misterjayb1 link Wrote: Those letterbox style number plates dont half rub the old bill up the wrong way..
They do look better on a bike without a doubt, and the one I've got has similar size letters to a standard plate, but obviously without the required space around the letters, so I wasn't even really taking the piss, but I knew that if I get stopped for one i'll get done for both so just put a standard plate back on.
It's not like I have to look at it anyway!
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
In a group of about six of us mostly with smaller plates and race cans, the one guy with the letterbox style plate was singled out, surrounded and then stopped by 2 marked police bikes.. Agreed they do look the part but not worth the hassle to me.. Currently have a 9x7 and a baffle in my Scorpion can. Old age is indeed a cruel thing :lol
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...
I Run a black widow link pipe and shortly can off eBay, had to balance the carbs though and still pops a d gurgles on overrun, with the baffle out it sounds ridiculous but not worth the huge fuel consumption and general hassle so I keep it in 90% of the time
I recon you could run no plate at all, well for awhile, snap the corner off the plate leaving just enough to bolt to the mount. When you get pulled explain to the copper that someone gave you a nudge from behind at a set of traffic lights etc.
Complete fabrication, I didn't make it up!
(25-07-16, 07:37 PM)Tubz1983 link Wrote: I Run a black widow link pipe and shortly can off eBay, had to balance the carbs though and still pops a d gurgles on overrun, with the baffle out it sounds ridiculous but not worth the huge fuel consumption and general hassle so I keep it in 90% of the time
My Moto GP can just never feels right to me, spluttering way to much for my sensitive hearing.
It's fully responsive on the throttle but my Quill exhaust just sounds so much more consistent and less overbearing on the ears, especially on motorway runs.
Tried the Moto GP can once out on the road without the baffle and people turn heads about 100 metres in front of you, you could literally wake the dead.
Totally legal with the baffle in though, whereas my Quill can is technically a race can so i bought an aftermarket baffle for it but it swayedtowards sounding like the OEM can so that came straight out, plus it breathes and runs better without it.
Once the carbs were balanced properly it has a nice but totally non attention seeking sound to it now.
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
MTC can fitted yesterday, sounds much better, living close to Cadwell, the old boys in blue tend to turn a blind eye..its not harshly loud, just nice! Will be getting stainless steel downpipes over winter. Maybe LED indictors and a double bubble screen, braided line already on rear brake (fz1000 blue dot?) will be fitted. On an S reg, 99, 17K clock, £500...just had to be around at the right time I guess!
