Ok let me tell you guys a story...

In 2004, I bought a set of standard Carbon Can Co. stainless steel exhaust from CCC (with Simon Cope at the helm)...
see pic below:


I run those cans for 2 years, and I was using my bike every day, to work and back and every weekend running approx 12000 miles on these, then at the beginning of 2006, Simon gave me a free complimentary set of carbon sleeved stubbies so I packed my stainless steel cans and sent them to Kev in Australia when he still had his blue XT, (see pic below) he had some special connecting pipes for them and fitted them to not one but 3 bikes the blue 04 one, and 2 orange an 06 and an 08 and he is still running them at present date, SIX YEAR LATER, and neither me nor Kev have experienced any problems with rivets and the manufacturing of them.



A couple of years ago, Kev remove all rivets, then he completely gutted out all the old padding out of the cans and replaced the padding with new clean one and re-riveted the cans, and still they are going strong.

And this my friends goes to show how good the quality of the original CCC exhausts were.

Since Simon Cope was in charge of CCC we have NEVER had any returns, any complaints and not even a single can failing in construction. EVER.