I have the long TOR's, and have been told by other members here that they are pretty loud in the company of some Specialty Spares, D&D's, and the like, but I don't know. I don't want for anything louder, I do know that. Quiet is a luxury I would take any day, if I could get the same performance and fuel economy. (I put my stock pipes back on for a week, and the fuel economy went south.)
I think it takes a while for the pipes to "season in", too. Last year at the Georgia Rally, when I went off road on the Cherohalla, I knocked a chunk of carbon out of the right side pipe, an area about the size of a half-dollar (seen one of those lately?), and best I can recall, it took another year (roughly 10k miles) for that area to carbon over again. That one silver spot inside that pipe really stood out and reminded me of how fortunate I am that the get-off wasn't any worse than it was...but I do think that the sound of any pipe is going to change somewhat as it carbons up inside.
I lost a heat shield in Georgia this year, off of the same pipe (don't ask), and though I notice it every time I see it, I really have not had any "inquiries" about what those silver hanger tabs are there for....and it certainly is not worth spending a lot of $$$ to replace the pipes for.
I like them. I think they sound just like TRIUMPH intended.
Like the hot-rod she is.
