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Yes, it's deliberately like that, it's a low friction material to kind of provide 'lubrication' between the rubber grip, and the throttle housing. Allows the throttle to always snap closed when you release it. In fact there should always be enough of a gap between the two to not need this, but...

By the way - tip for you if you do it. The MT07 has an internal splice in the wires for the pass button, but the 'standard' Yamaha switchgear may have it external to the cluster. This means you have less wires on the bike side than you have in the replacement cluster. You need to solder both...

It's possibly older riders that dislike it. There is a default set of controls that almost all bikes ever made use, so those of us who have owned a few bikes are completely used to the controls being in the same place. Yamaha in their wisdom swapped them on the MT07. It's like someone switched...

Seems a bit messed up when the pipe you use on the road has to be swapped for a quieter one to use on a racetrack.

Yeah, do it. Mine is so much better to ride with proper controls.

The law is usually pretty precise - as far as I know, there is no specific legal distinction between a road and a track pipe, the legislation that I mentioned would work something like as follows; - The manufacturer submits the pipe / design for testing by the certification agency. - The agency...

Horton lane in Epsom? Last Monday? Nah. I've never been to Epsom.

I think there is legislation on DB levels, and some of it is EU-wide, so the same probably applies here. The problem is enforcement. It seems in the UK the testing process isn't very clear - our yearly checks (the MOT test) don't seem to be very specific, although the tester can fail the...

The opposite is more relevant - if it's legal, he can't tell you to put it back in. It's grey on volume, there doesn't seem to be any specific limit on decibels. However if the exhaust is type approved and you take the baffles out and increase the volume, (which we know it does), it's illegal...

Right. And are they road legal?

Do you mean the baffle is out for the mapping/flashing, then put back in, or that the baffle has to stay out? Is a pipe without baffles ever going to be legal?

It's an Aprilia SR125 Motard (or retard, as I call it). They do a 50cc version which apart from a sticker is visually indistinguishable, and there's also a pair of Piaggio Typhoon models (50/125) which are identical apart from graphics. It's a piece of shit though. 50mph top speed (but I am a...

Confession time. I still have one of these, on SORN, in my garage.

My MT03 used to pop and fart on the over run, that was quite amusing. There's a stupid thing you can do on a bike, where you shut the throttle, leave it coasting in gear, hit the kill switch but leave the engine turning over, then after a second or two, switch it back on, and it will backfire...

Just to clarify the above - I'm not saying there's anything wrong with an Akra or other aftermarket pipe either. Although the sound they make doesn't appeal to me any more than the standard exhaust, I can understand why people say they like it. It's the deliberate making of an infernal racket...

Yes, I like most mechanical noises - bikes, cars, planes, I totally get it. I'm not objecting to loud noises. A superbike makes that howl because it has a huge engine, chucking out 150+ bhp. An Aston Martin sounds amazing because it has a V12 under the hood. A baffle-less MT07 (or any other...

You're absolutely right, and a lot of noise isn't by any means the only way to misbehave on a bike. I have to say though, I seriously doubt your exhaust makes anyone smile. If it's got no baffles, it might just be that you set off an epileptic fit.

Might have a look. My wife 'discovered' Aldi about 3 months ago, and thinks it's wonderful. I keep finding oddly named versions of our usual food in the cupboard, but so far it has all been perfectly edible. I'll ask her if they have bike gear in ours. Ref gloves - have you ever used...

It's not always the noise that is so obnoxious, it's the way the noise is used. A blaring exhaust on its own isn't any more annoying than say a jet flying overhead, but it seems that riders with very loud exhausts find it hard to resist the temptation to use them as a battering ram. It's like...

Interesting - I hadn't really thought about the look being a factor, but now you mention it, it makes sense. I'm glad to see almost unanimity on the noise as well, I was half expecting my grumbling about superloud pipes to piss people off. It seems we're half and half between 'stock OK but too...