Okay, preliminary review time!
I only had a little time today to take a few basic pictures and a video. Pictures are uploaded at :
http://www.eden-cabal.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6&pos=1(i haven't inserted them into this page yet as they appear pretty large and i'll need to crop them).
Short version : very very happy with the sound.
Took about 20-30 minutes to swap out my old stock tapered exhausts (also pictured in the same archive) for the Trident ones.
They look well made, Stainless Steel (not Aluminium as i originally put) and have a really nice shine to them. I'll take more detailed pictures when we get a bit more sun but suffice to say everything fit together smoothly and with no fuss (baring in mind i'm an amateur at this kind of thing).
Firing up the engine and good gods is it loud!
Not ear aching loud, but certainly loud enough to hear you coming (and probably a bit too loud for my quiet neighbourhood). still it's probably comparable to any number of after market sports cans out there and from my weak memory louder than TORS.
The sound is gorgeous, a real deep tone that doesn't make it sound like any old Harley out there but rather emphasises the characteristics of the Triumph engine, injects it with steroids and gives it some grunt.
most importantly (to me) it doesn't sound like its farting, but has a real roar when you get it going.
Peter is kindly sending me an additional set of baffles which will fit inside the existing ones to quiet them down a bit - I purposefully went for something a little outside of street legal for a first run and with the additional baffles they should bring the volume down to a more social level without (hopefully) losing any of that beautiful tone
this means in short there will be three baffle configurations. No Baffles (which i havn't tried yet, i'll give that one a go when i have a little more space - i assume that'll rock the nuts off my ears), the current baffle (which is aftermarket can loud, depends on your definition of loud of course) and acceptable to most places i would imagine apart from particularly quiet neighbourhoods and hopefully this additional baffle which will bring it down to a more 'social' riders level.
the baffle looks like it's removed by a simple allen key type affair, will take pictures when i get a chance.
In short i'm very happy with them so far (i keep on going to the garage to check the sound), they will be 100% perfect if i can bring the volume down a few steps towards legal (at which point i won't worry so much about riding around Birmingham).
Once i get the additional baffles through and a bit of sun i'll take some pictures and some better audio for you to listen to.
(i'll post an updated link once i upload the video that i've taken)
