I have owned my 2010 roadster for 2 years , admittedly the stock exhausts strangle the beast due to emission and sound laws , so my bike was fitted with tors . Ever since I bin a bit dissapointed with the sound , thinking the bike was still way to quiet ! I bin spending hours mulling other the various options and the associated expense . It was only in the last week or so that I had a revelation , I bumped into someone I know who's house fronts the main half mile drag outta my home town . This guy is a modded car nut who just like us are always looking for bigger and better and noisier! He asked me if I had rode by the evening before whilst he was on his front drive tinkering ? He then went on to say that he heard this machine coming up the hill and stopped what he was doing to see me coming on my rocket , as I passed him and continued accelerating he said the sound of the bike was absolutely incredible , a deep burbling growl that made the actual air around him vibrate nothing like it had he heard before ! Then the other night I went for a ride out with a friend who was on a GSX 1400 fitted with a full yoshi system . I had always been jelous of the sound of his bike !
I hadn't ridden with him since buying my rocket and when we stopped , he came over to me with a huge grin and said " that bike sounds absolutely awesome mate ! I can't believe it , when you came past me at full chat I was enveloped in a sound that made my guts vibrate , it was deafening ! " he likened it to the bass you feel at a live rock concert . Then it occurred to me that sitting stationary on the bike and revving , or even at full chat with the wind blast and crash helmet on , I have not been perceiving the sound of the rocket as others do . There is powerfully loud and there is obnoxious . The former , I think ? Is by far the best and for the forsee able future I am keeping my tors firmly strapped to the side of my Trump ! !