Hitchcocks Forum

Just saw this Woodsman on a Honda site; lovely.

Maybe in a couple of years I might change my mudguards and exhaust to this; I’d have to save first....

That's very much like the look of my own 350, including a similar colour (but mine's Riviera red).

I think it was in the old customer's bikes section on the previous forum.

Seeing the 1956 version of the Woodsman inspired me to do this to my first Electra-X

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Yes, that’ll do thank you

My 350 Electra:

There is something about the Woodsman exhaust, it's just a shame that some of our hosts' offerings make such a naff job joining the exhaust port stub onto the main pipe. I think some of the more recent ones have a smoother transition.

I think I'd be a bit concerned about the weight of that longer silencer on there too, the standard 350 Indian shorty will go straight on and not be too loud.

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So your saying that even though that is a longer silencer, it will be noisier than the standard 350?

Actually, my bike came with an Indian home market silencer, which weighs half a ton and restricts the engine.

Now I've done the Edinburgh Trial (well, in truth, failed to get much of it done) I might fit the reverse cone megaphone, which is even lighter, or the Goldie.

John,

I don't know if our hosts' silencer is louder or quieter than the 350 Indian shorty, what I am concerned about is the extra weight of of Mr H's silencer, particularly with it being that far back, the effects of vibration, etc.

Wheaters,

I assume you're going back to a low-level pipe for a Goldie loudener, if not there is a mini Gold Star silencer available which looks OK on a Woodsman pipe, though I think you'd have to look beyond our hosts' lists to find it. I have used one, it's a bit on the fruity side but not too bad.

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My Goldie is full size and empty so it isn't much less noisy than the megaphone - the mega is much lighter, too.

Just remembered that the OE low pipe has the 1. 3/4" OD adapter welded on the end, the present Woodsman pipe is 1. 1/2" so might just keep it as is. I'm certainly not buying any more silencers for this bike - there's four in my garage already - plus one which is a universal "shortie" chrome muffler...now there's an idea.....