Coffmans is a winner today. As usual great compilation. Sorry for the late views, I've been away for 8 days and had shitty wifi. I had to sit on a balcony to get a nice connection and since I was in the resort area it was loud af and didn't hear anything. Good vid 👍 Btw, weather is getting nice and should be taking out my bike this Saturday.
Got a CBR500R and tested 4/5 different exhausts, use the Ixil Hyperlow without the DB-killers, it sounds beautifull, all the others exhausts have simmilar sounds but this one is different and clearly the best
Whats with every bike under 600cc today sounding like a gutless little 125 four stroke? Look up CBR400. They sound like a 600 or more with their standard exhaust! The Ninja 300, R3, CBR00, CBR300, they all sound muffled and little :( Such a shame emissions laws came in and ruined everyones fun.
But they don't sound gutsy. They all sound muted and dull, no matter what you seem to put on them :/ Two guys i know have mid size bikes. One has a standard CBR 400 and the other has an R3 with a full akropovic system. The CBR sounds so much better. It sounds like an 800, where as the R3 still sounds like a lawn vacuum :( It's such a shame cus I really love small/mid range bikes. I doubt I'll ever own anything over 600cc myself. Maybe a VFR800 at a push, but thats another sound completely. The after market cans just don't seem to enhance modern engine sounds that much. The tick over and high revs are the saddest sounds though.
They're all four strokes, but they're completely different engines. Cbr250/400/600/1000RR all have 4-cylinder engines and therefore high revs, where as the single R's have 2-cyl.
try recording the sound when you're 3-5 meters away from the bike... the sound you get from recording directly from the exhaust is useless... and half the sound is scratched out
All this has done is convince me that I'm better off keeping the stock exhaust in place on my 2016 CBR500R. Sure, it sounds like a sewing machine in stock form, but none of these exhaust options sound like anything even remotely close to what I'd call "good." I'd rather not hear the exhaust AT ALL if the only alternative is something that sounds tinny and farty at the same time.
As someone who rode with it stock for a year, then put in an akrapovic (took out baffle), the stock sounds like shit, and upgrading the exhaust is well worth it. The sound in person is much nicer, and the videos cant do it justice. Akrapovic with baffle sounds exactly like stock, so make sure you take the time to take out baffle before assembling it.
