Recommended Exhaust Modifications for Sound

I have TORS on mine and I love them. Just enough bark and low rumble to feel good but not waking up the neighborhood at 6 am. I too am happy with the existing power and I was very glad the former owner put up the bucks for them. Recently, my dept at work all went out to lunch. I took the Roadster while everyone else rode together in a car. I was ahead of them at a light and one guy said it didn't matter if the window was up or down, the whole car rumbled with that low frequency purr the lovely triple puts out My last bike was a Vulcan Meanstreak with V&H Longshots. Sounded great for about the first year, but it got old pretty fast soon after.
 
Buffalo Soldier, I may have a very good option for you... a used and in excellent condition set of a very high quality slip-on set up that were made in Australia called Mad Dogs:

These are very, very sweet sounding at speed, a low, throaty, refined growl and they add very little to added performance #s. Their configuration is quite similar to the pre-Roadster models, the Standards and Classics, a three into one into a two & one. The question is can they can easily be retrofitted for a Roadster? Their original cost ranged between $1200-$1500 over the years when they were manufactured and distributed (up until about 4years ago, I think), depending on the exchange rate between our dollar and the Aussie dollar. Extremely fine build quality! I want to upgrade to the Carpenter Racing Brute system, so I will make an attractive deal on these...
 
I'm not in a spot to spend a bunch on new pipes right now, so when I bought my R3T, I bored out the baffles and CAT's using a carbide hole saw and an unreasonable number of hex extensions. Took longer than I'd like to admit, but the beast sounds much, much better and has a ballsier sound at idle and going down the road. Run a gear out, and the bike is pretty intimidating sounding. I worked with @HansO to get a tune using TuneECU for the new set up. Whatever you do, adding pipes or not, do yourself a favor and re-tune. It is staggering how restricted the bike is stock. You think the throttle is neck-snapping now? Just wait until you drop a decent tune in and open up the secondaries. Unreal for a bike this size, or for any cruiser, honestly.
 

Its a different bike eh!
 
Glad that has worked out for you
 
HansO said:
Glad that has worked out for you
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I have the terribly British named TORS (Triumph Off road Silencers ) and am more than satisfied with the sound and stock look of them , a nice triple sounding purr when cruising, and sounding not unlike an early triumph twin at idle, for $A400 a good quality option ,also I am a genuine Triumph option fan everything on my R3T is genuine Triumph,
 
I took the baffles out of my D&D slip ons, and I couldn't put them back in fast enough.
It sounded like a diesel trash truck that the exhaust system fell off!! Will never take them out again!!
Just my opinion. But I do like the sound with the baffles in you can tell it's running at 60mph clutch in,hearing protection, and full face helmet.
 
Like so many other things about our motorcycles, the appreciation for the tone, timbre, cadence and level of sound emanating therefrom is 100 percent subjective in accordance with the user, listener or critic of the source.
 
TriumPhil said:
Like so many other things about our motorcycles, the appreciation for the tone, timbre, cadence and level of sound emanating therefrom is 100 percent subjective in accordance with the user, listener or critic of the source.
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All true, my friend; however, some sound like ***n' Hip Hop!!!
 
I think the stock pipes are a good bit more restrictive of a design than the TORS or the D&D slip-ons, so removing the baffles from them doesn't give that diesel pusher sound. It rumbles and has an aggressive note at speed, but doesn't sound loose or chaotic. Just lower and louder than stock. To each his own, though.
 
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