10-06-15, 09:20 PM
I had an RXS100 when I was 17 (mid90s) sometimes we would take the baffles out (mates and I) and go for a blast up the lanes near the Severn Bridge making maximum noise. One saturday we did this and I bungee the baffle cylinder to my topbox (horrid rickman thing). When we go to the end of the run, the baffles were lost, we went back to see if we could see them to no avail.
Fearing a colosal bollocking from my old man and being a skint student, I elected to raid his joinery store. I located a piece handrail-dowel a similar size to the baffleless exhaust chamber and drilled the middle through with a 3/4" forstner bit. Installed with lockwire, it was reasonably quiet. A few days later as I rode into college with a friend behind me the now charred and embered 'baffle' came flying out and hit his bike!
Deciding that a charcoal baffle was just not long lived enough, I then got one of those sardine tins and bodged it in again with a drilled hole to 'reduce' the volume.
Knowing that if spotted by my dad, the police or the MOT guy I would be tumbled - and long before ebay - I spent a few weeks wondering how I was going to fix the issue.
I then went in the local bikeshop, who was having a bit of an autojumble, amongst the tat was a pair of silencers for either a T500 or a GT500. I spotted that the baffles looked a similar diameter; 'They must be right I thought', in an teenage brainwave that makes me cringe now, taking no measurements I asked the old boy at the counter if I could buy one of the baffles, at first he was reticent, but caved in when a fiver was produced (they would never sell part of a decent system for a classic 2 stroke now!). I bought the baffle and when out to my RXS, it sloted straight in and his mechanic gave me a bit of steel wire to retain it. Stayed there until the bike fell to bits (at 49,000 hard miles)
A whole load of stupidity and teenage idiocy and yet it all worked out okay....
Fearing a colosal bollocking from my old man and being a skint student, I elected to raid his joinery store. I located a piece handrail-dowel a similar size to the baffleless exhaust chamber and drilled the middle through with a 3/4" forstner bit. Installed with lockwire, it was reasonably quiet. A few days later as I rode into college with a friend behind me the now charred and embered 'baffle' came flying out and hit his bike!
Deciding that a charcoal baffle was just not long lived enough, I then got one of those sardine tins and bodged it in again with a drilled hole to 'reduce' the volume.
Knowing that if spotted by my dad, the police or the MOT guy I would be tumbled - and long before ebay - I spent a few weeks wondering how I was going to fix the issue.
I then went in the local bikeshop, who was having a bit of an autojumble, amongst the tat was a pair of silencers for either a T500 or a GT500. I spotted that the baffles looked a similar diameter; 'They must be right I thought', in an teenage brainwave that makes me cringe now, taking no measurements I asked the old boy at the counter if I could buy one of the baffles, at first he was reticent, but caved in when a fiver was produced (they would never sell part of a decent system for a classic 2 stroke now!). I bought the baffle and when out to my RXS, it sloted straight in and his mechanic gave me a bit of steel wire to retain it. Stayed there until the bike fell to bits (at 49,000 hard miles)
A whole load of stupidity and teenage idiocy and yet it all worked out okay....