I'll expound a bit - I'm the friend in question.
I'm well familiar with the backpressure issue (although more theoretically than in practice - in fact my bike runs like the dickens with wide open pipes), but it's not the problem I'm trying to solve. This thing is loud - not loud like midlife crisis loud - loud like Germans invading Poland loud. Trouble is, I've moved to a lovely town full of hippies, yoga classes, farmer's markets... I wouldn't make it half a mile before I was beaten with daisies and hung by hemp rope from the nearest tree.
So here are my thoughts: 8" universal baffles would fit in the end of these pipes - I could wrap with glass and hope for the best, but how much of an effect can I expect this to have? Alternatively, I'd love to have some pipes made to extend from my tt's up and around my rear tire at 30' or so to which I could mount some proper (albeit short) mufflers. Any pipe builders in the community? I'm comfortable doing most mechanical work myself, but metal fabricator I'm not.
Other options?
Alex
I'm well familiar with the backpressure issue (although more theoretically than in practice - in fact my bike runs like the dickens with wide open pipes), but it's not the problem I'm trying to solve. This thing is loud - not loud like midlife crisis loud - loud like Germans invading Poland loud. Trouble is, I've moved to a lovely town full of hippies, yoga classes, farmer's markets... I wouldn't make it half a mile before I was beaten with daisies and hung by hemp rope from the nearest tree.
So here are my thoughts: 8" universal baffles would fit in the end of these pipes - I could wrap with glass and hope for the best, but how much of an effect can I expect this to have? Alternatively, I'd love to have some pipes made to extend from my tt's up and around my rear tire at 30' or so to which I could mount some proper (albeit short) mufflers. Any pipe builders in the community? I'm comfortable doing most mechanical work myself, but metal fabricator I'm not.
Other options?
Alex
