Finally got my MTC single can and got it fitted. Quite the job compared to my previous bikes!

They sound great, but one question - are these considered road legal in most countries? They are *loud* Even with the db killer in place.

Has anyone been pulled over with these on?

Now, I always thought the can was loud too, but after asking others who were following, they said not.

I think it sounds louder on the bike, than off it, if you understand me. And the induction noise with the DNS filters makes it seam louder still.

But easily passed a UK MOT.

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They certainly sound loud at 5.30am.

My bike always backfired a lot on the over run with the standard pipe but now even with the AIS blanked off livestock bolt and passers by are looking out for the gunman.

Not really suitable for greenlaning where you want to be as discreet as possible.

Still sounds ace though

I feel safer knowing people hear me coming with my MTC,
plus it means the wife knows when to get the kettle on !

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Yeah mine knows to brew up when she hears me coming up the hill 5 mins before I get in!

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Ok, couple of months with the MTC single now. It's still loud!

I don't suppose anyone has fitted some different db killers off of ebay in theirs or something? I've got the stock ones in but they are still way too loud for offroad riding. There is no surer way to get paths and roads blocked off than to make lots of noise

I will do the MOT test today (Sweden) with MTC single can and dB killer. I dont think it will pass.... Its to loud!

Has anyone any suggestion how to make it more silence?

I went to MTC to pick up my can. When I fitted it I also thought it was far too loud................so I went back to them and they gave me a 'pepper pot' plate to fit between the link pipe and the silencer. Now it was far too muffled and stifled...............................so I went back to them with the bike and less the 'pepper pot' plate. I illustrated just how loud the can was, some quick revs in a warehouse!.
In the end orf the can is a tube. They took this out and I could see that it is swaged up to fit at the mouth of the silencer and then narrows down to about 25mm. It is about 250mm long and the end is blanked. The last 75mm of the tube is perforated and it is this part that allows the exhaust gasses to escape out of the silencer.
They basically chopped 25mm off the end of this pipe and reblanked the end. I tried the can again and still too loud, they chopped another 25mm off and now I was happier.
To sum up the pipe allowing gasses out has perforations for only25mm of its original length.
I was not too bothered about having this shortened so drastically as it would be easy to enlarge the holes or add more.

Hope this makes sense and is of some use.

Steve D

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This sounds completely different to my pipe. Got an Oval single Stainless MTC. I'm not too bothered about the noise level as I'm in the land of V-twins but it would be good to know I could lower the noise if need be. The only thing that comes out of my pipe is this (pic). Doesn't sound anything like what you've got.

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That looks completely different to the two ones I got from MTC a year or so ago. They had mesh grating instead of solid metal for the cylinder, and the one that was supposed to be more quiet had a plate at the top of the cylinder in the pic, instead of being open, but still mesh around the cylinder