Short or Long Silencers

Glenn Harman said:
Hi Steve. I like the idea of removing the longs innards. I will try the shorties with cats removed, with the aim of getting those longs sorted too. I too fancy a 750, get a lock up garage that the wife doesn’t know about!
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I have a factory decat and the factory longs with the front absorption silenced section replaced with straight through pipe and to me (and others who have heard them) they have a wonderful sound without being excessively loud. Obviously you can get these made at the factory or a third party company in this configuration. The bike sounds as it should without turning this beautiful machine into a visual abomination by strapping those horrid stumpy silencers on.
 
BritTwit said:
Can't we all just get along?:p
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Don't you read the news, We can't agree about anything in this country. I vote for a clean break with the "longies", none of this endless talk of how the short pipes will suffer in the long term, no TT winner ever had long pipes in the good old days, and I say while you "longies" are Put Putting around obeying the Euro 20 dicktats, I'll be roaring to financial ruin with bleeding ears. :cool:
 
thesixthelephant said:
Don't you read the news, We can't agree about anything in this country. I vote for a clean break with the "longies", none of this endless talk of how the short pipes will suffer in the long term, no TT winner ever had long pipes in the good old days, and I say while you "longies" are Put Putting around obeying the Euro 20 dicktats, I'll be roaring to financial ruin with bleeding ears. :cool:
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I'm not certain, but I think that was a NO!:D
 
I had the de-cat x pipe fitted with the short open silencers on my MKII at 500 miles, but have recently had a pair of bespoke silencers made by Harrison Performance (Check out the photo's on Facebook) Excellent work by Alan, and I think a much better sounding exhaust note.
 
patchy-man said:
I had the de-cat x pipe fitted with the short open silencers on my MKII at 500 miles, but have recently had a pair of bespoke silencers made by Harrison Performance (Check out the photo's on Facebook) Excellent work by Alan, and I think a much better sounding exhaust note.
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Thanks, I will have a look.
 
patchy-man said:
I had the de-cat x pipe fitted with the short open silencers on my MKII at 500 miles, but have recently had a pair of bespoke silencers made by Harrison Performance (Check out the photo's on Facebook) Excellent work by Alan, and I think a much better sounding exhaust note.
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I've had a look, they're lovely. How long did they take and what did they charge if you don't mind me asking?
 
patchy-man said:
I had the de-cat x pipe fitted with the short open silencers on my MKII at 500 miles, but have recently had a pair of bespoke silencers made by Harrison Performance (Check out the photo's on Facebook) Excellent work by Alan, and I think a much better sounding exhaust note.
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Can you post a couple of pics here for us non-facebookers ?
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My original approach to Alan at Harrison Performance was to have the standard long silencers altered by removing the restricted internals and to have larger bore straight through silencers, but the internals are a series of baffle chambers which would be a lot of work to remove. The bespoke silencers were made within a few days to my basic design, using my original standard silencers as a template. They were then fitted and tweaked to the bike at his workshop. They were a fraction of the cost compared to the short open silencers.
 
patchy-man said:
My original approach to Alan at Harrison Performance was to have the standard long silencers altered by removing the restricted internals and to have larger bore straight through silencers, but the internals are a series of baffle chambers which would be a lot of work to remove. The bespoke silencers were made within a few days to my basic design, using my original standard silencers as a template. They were then fitted and tweaked to the bike at his workshop. They were a fraction of the cost compared to the short open silencers.
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8/5 is a fraction! :D
 
BikerBore said:
For me it would be long open silencers and it will be soon for mine when it comes to the first service.

Shorties, don't do it! :D
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OK to resurrect an old thread and also to point out the mistakes others have made, I've just had my bike in for it's first service and had open long silencers fitted which is the only correct option for a 961 Commando :D
 
BikerBore said:
OK to resurrect an old thread and also to point out the mistakes others have made, I've just had my bike in for it's first service and had open long silencers fitted which is the only correct option for a 961 Commando :D
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Balderdash !

You sir are beyond help.

Behold, a gentleman’s exhaust pipe:
Short or Long Silencers
Short or Long Silencers
 
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thesixthelephant said:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/cate...--Boat/Harrison-Performance-1343479885761207/ click the link and scroll down. they look well made. But they are NOT shorties:p
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Personally I don’t like the way the reverse cone is slightly angled down, but ‘to each his own’.

Harrison Performance certainly seem to know their stuff!

They don’t seem to have a web site, are they one of those that assume everyone is on Faceache?

Can anyone tell me where they are located?
 
BikerBore said:
OK to resurrect an old thread and also to point out the mistakes others have made, I've just had my bike in for it's first service and had open long silencers fitted which is the only correct option for a 961 Commando :D
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Well said sir! The clue is in the name. Long peashooters are Commando. Stumpy silencers are more Manx and Dominator.
 
Fredvincent said:
Well said sir! The clue is in the name. Long peashooters are Commando. Stumpy silencers are more Manx and Dominator.
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The stock pipes are indeed long, you’re quite right there... but peashooters they are not! The long factory pipes do not look ANYTHING like the original peashooters !

The closest to the peashooter that I’ve seen is the Thiel Motorsport pipes I’ve shown above.

All jesting aside, the Thiel pipes are actually somewhere between the shorties and longies in terms of overall length. They sound fabulous (even Rob and Paul at the factory said so unprompted). And they just look right.

Highly recommend.
 
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