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[another Allan]

I had one of our host's 'goldie' silencers fitted to my Watsonian trials-type 625 Bullet when I bought it. It was ludicrously loud! No amount of bending the tangs on the removable baffle made any difference. There was the expected bass boom, but over that was a harsh, staccato bark with high-frequency harmonics. An after-market larger baffle may have improved things, but I sold the 'goldie' on Ebay and fitted the original silencer which came with the bike. It is full of baffles, and is still very loud at large throttle openings (but inoffensive at town speeds.) I suppose the size of the bangs from the 625 has a lot to do with it. I'm sure that the silencer I'm using at the moment is strangling the engine at higher revs, so I need to try something different. What do the 612 owners have to say on this subject?

[davep]

thank you gentlemen for you responses I think I will attempt Norms solution to the problem

[Graham43]

You could use the original Electra silencer - too quiet for me - even my neighbours complained that they could not hear me coming so that they could hide.

[Paulk]

My solution was to weld one of the mutes (vw type as sold in the ex section) to the cup shape baffle mount - after chopping the bendy baffle tube off. So ending up with a sort of copy of the Norton Commando peashooter - ish.