Remus full system....

[Schtum]

......can it really be road legal?

I fitted it a couple of weeks before we went off to the US for three weeks. When I got back I didn't ride for a week so I'd been off the bike for about a month. I've been using it to commute all this week because my car is off the road.

It's a full Remus system with a titanium Revolution can. The can is stamped with an E mark and it's still got the baffle in. That makes it legal......well nominally legal at least. But the sound when you wind it on is pretty damned loud, to say the least. Maybe it sounds a bit louder to me at the moment because I've got the panniers on, but the mechanic in the VAG specialist which currently has my Golf up on the ramps said he heard me coming from the other end of the industrial estate, tonight.

So can this glorious sound of tearing calico on an open throttle between 5K and 8K really be anywhere near being road legal......?

 

[ssi]

H'mmm yes I know what you mean.

I have been riding with a Remus titanium end can on the standard headers for a while and the sound was good.

I have just added the headers and with a K&N filter it now sounds really nice once over 4000rpm.

Is it legal. I don't know as I think bikes have to pass an MOT on sound values which don't depend on the stamps on the exhaust. It is stamped as legal but is the end can legal only on the standard headers.

Any one know ?

 

[yellofello]

I often wonder this too. Mates say they can hear me from miles away...and thats with an ipod in the ears too.

Have to say though, does sound sweet. One of the nicest motorbikes sounds out.

 

[118118]

......can it really be road legal?

I fitted it a couple of weeks before we went off to the US for three weeks. When I got back I didn't ride for a week so I'd been off the bike for about a month. I've been using it to commute all this week because my car is off the road.

It's a full Remus system with a titanium Revolution can. The can is stamped with an E mark and it's still got the baffle in. That makes it legal......well nominally legal at least. But the sound when you wind it on is pretty damned loud, to say the least. Maybe it sounds a bit louder to me at the moment because I've got the panniers on, but the mechanic in the VAG specialist which currently has my Golf up on the ramps said he heard me coming from the other end of the industrial estate, tonight.

So can this glorious sound of tearing calico on an open throttle between 5K and 8K really be anywhere near being road legal......?

Just got my first gs last friday tea time and by 10.00pm the full Remus system was fitted. God it sounds good, dont know what next door thought!
300 mile round trip on Saturday, and still came home with a big grin. best £500 every spent on top of the £10,000 for the bike but i dont think about that!
9 years on sports bikes and even a 35 year old loves the GS. am i old before my time or is it just the way forward?

 

[Dave T]

9 years on sports bikes and even a 35 year old loves the GS. am i old before my time or is it just the way forward?

Well.. I'm only 32 and loving mine, so that must make me REALLY old before my time !!!! Remember, it's not what you ride, but that you ride!!! Enjoy it, and ride safe. A nice exhaust is on my list of 'things to do'.

Dave T.

 

[Schtum]

Could you children please stick to the point......

 

[Dave T]

Could you children please stick to the point......

OOps.. sorry
Dave T

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

I suspect it may have something to do with how the exhausts are 'tested' in order to qualify for an 'E' mark / BS stamp or whatever.

The exhaust may well be designed to be quiet enough at a given rpm that is required by the test procedure but that doesn't mean it has to be quiet throughout the rev range.

My BOS system would seem to bear this out, low revs are nice and quiet but crack open the throttle fully and above 5k revs it is transformed and if you take the 'db killer' out

FWIW for a silencer to be 'road legal' it does not require any form of 'E' mark / BS stamp or whatever. What it must NOT have however is a stamp along the lines of 'for race use only'. As far as the MOT is concerned it should obviously not have the 'for race use only' stamp on it but, other than that, it is down to a subjective evaluation by the tester as to what he/she feels constitutes 'too loud'.

Did that keep to the point Schtum?

Andres

Andres

 

[Schtum]

FWIW for a silencer to be 'road legal' it does not require any form of 'E' mark / BS stamp or whatever. What it must NOT have however is a stamp along the lines of 'for race use only'. As far as the MOT is concerned it should obviously not have the 'for race use only' stamp on it but, other than that, it is down to a subjective evaluation by the tester as to what he/she feels constitutes 'too loud'.

Not quite ol' chap. The conditions that you've stated satisfy the MOT testing regulations. I think you'll find that Construction and Use Regulations still require an exhaust can to have the E mark or a BS AU193 stamp or be an OE can bearing the manufacturer's name. Just another little anomaly in our wonderful Road Traffic Laws.....

Did that keep to the point Schtum?

Almost.......

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Not quite ol' chap. The conditions that you've stated satisfy the MOT testing regulations. I think you'll find that Construction and Use Regulations still require an exhaust can to have the E mark or a BS AU193 stamp or be an OE can bearing the manufacturer's name.

As ever, I stand corrected

Andres

 

[Dellis]

I suspect it may have something to do with how the exhausts are 'tested' in order to qualify for an 'E' mark / BS stamp or whatever.

The exhaust may well be designed to be quiet enough at a given rpm that is required by the test procedure but that doesn't mean it has to be quiet throughout the rev range.

My BOS system would seem to bear this out, low revs are nice and quiet but crack open the throttle fully and above 5k revs it is transformed and if you take the 'db killer' out

FWIW for a silencer to be 'road legal' it does not require any form of 'E' mark / BS stamp or whatever. What it must NOT have however is a stamp along the lines of 'for race use only'. As far as the MOT is concerned it should obviously not have the 'for race use only' stamp on it but, other than that, it is down to a subjective evaluation by the tester as to what he/she feels constitutes 'too loud'.

Did that keep to the point Schtum?

Andres

Andres

Andres,

The MOT tests for the condition of the system not its legality.

Cheers
Dave