De-Cat Exhaust on Road Trips / Touring

[sdiori]

I've got some trips planned for the summer (>1K miles) and the only thing I haven't done to my bike is replace the stock exhaust.

Bren Tune, servo flap modified already.

For those of you who have toured with with a de-catted exhaust, is there any drone?

I wear a Shoei X-14 with ear plugs.

Thanks for your feedback!

[Magicrat52]

Couple of years ago I took my de catted gen 1 through Portugal and Spain.
3500 miles, it was rather obnoxious, ran rough at slow speed's through rural villages.
When I got home I fitted a standard system and it was a much nicer ride all round.

Swapped it a year later for a gen2, I’m very pleased with that so far, no plans to mess with it other than fitting a SC projects can

[Antares]

Not for me, done many multi day trips, sometimes 400+ miles in a day, never an issue... WITH EARPLUGS... without? Oh god no... With earplugs a decatted XR with stock endcan is just about right where you can enjoy the sound, it's fairly calm at motorway speeds without droning, and insanely fun when getting a move on. Headers + endcan? even with earplugs is too much imo.

You should ride with earplugs anyway, wind noise is the hearing killer regardless of helmet not the exhaust.

Also I have ran it with headers + intake baffle removed, that was too loud when giving it beans, as I said, just headers + stock endcan is about the sweet spot.

[sdiori]

Originally Posted by Magicrat52

Couple of years ago I took my de catted gen 1 through Portugal and Spain.
3500 miles, it was rather obnoxious, ran rough at slow speed's through rural villages.
When I got home I fitted a standard system and it was a much nicer ride all round.

Swapped it a year later for a gen2, I’m very pleased with that so far, no plans to mess with it other than fitting a SC projects can

Thank you!

[Crosshairs]

I've also done over 20K  touring miles  with a decat and never had an issue. .. with the Bren tune, it runs better than it did stock
With decent ear plugs you won't have any concerns

[Antares]

The biggest thing that can get annoying (and only if you're not in the mood for it) is the crackles from Dynamic when in a bit of a stop and go or "on and off" throttle traffic, but simply knock it to road and they'll stop, though I'm not even sure Gen 2s crackle even with headers.

[Winger]

Ditch the exhaust system and the TUV approved fuelling and you will have a completely bike on your hands.

[sdiori]

You guys are awesome. Thanks for the feedback.