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I'm not sure if I've grown tighter in my old age, or if motorcycle exhausts genuinely never used to cost so much back when they all looked like bean cans with drain sprouts welded on...

Leo Vince has announced their attempt at an exhaust for my KLE, and it looks good to me.
https://www.leovince.com/en-cn/product/ ... -2026-2026



There's just the one catch - it's 568€, or €592 if you want it with the black coating.
LV is no outlier at that price either, with Remus at €680, Akrapoviċ over €750, Ixil at €565, SC Project at €520-€570, GPR at €540, etc. etc.

Only Akra is titanium out of that lot, too.

So. When did stainless steel get so expensive, and do you still pay it?

Is that a full system, or just the end can?

mangocrazy wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2026 10:23 am Is that a full system, or just the end can?

Just the can!

I'm not looking at a full system, as removing the catalyst will definitely cause an engine light.

I looked at the Remus and HP Corse cans for my BMW GS, decided I quite liked the original after seeing the prices.

£350 for 2 S&S end cans 6 years ago, the power of Google tells me they go for £550 today.

That great bunch of lads do loads of cheap copy ones....

Whysub wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:10 am That great bunch of lads do loads of cheap copy ones....

Aye, and I'm certainly seeing the appeal. But they've not caught up with the KLE yet, too new.

For now I'm rocking an old Quill T3 on a link pipe meant for a cb750 hornet from said bunch of lads. It doesn't look terrible, but the can wants to point out more than I've allowed it to and everything is accordingly wonky, the can has a 54mm opening which needs an adapter to the 51mm link pipe so there's extra joins in there, and in general it's just a bit old school-looking.

Sounds nice though.

https://revtothelimit.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=412453#p412453 wrote:I realised that if you fit the silencer to the bike before tightening the link pipe, it allows the graphite gasket to take up some misalignment. Still not perfect, but it's close enough for government work.



We had this already, but the world needs videos these days.

I paid just under £500 for an arrow can for the wife's Honda Rebel. That bike was so quiet it was apologising for polluting, now it sounds like thunder with all of its 47bhp going straight through unsilenced

Speak to these guys https://grmoto.co.uk/. They do end cans for around £250. They do one for the other Kawasaki 451 twins so although the KLE isn't listed they might have a solution.

I have a full header and can set up on my Himmy and it's well built and standing up to off-road abuse. Saved a ton of weight too.

Taff wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2026 12:00 pm I paid just under £500 for an arrow can for the wife's Honda Rebel. That bike was so quiet it was apologising for polluting, now it sounds like thunder with all of its 47bhp going straight through unsilenced

I like Arrow exhausts too, but they've missed the mark on their offering for the KLE.
https://www.arrow.it/en/assembled/2022/ ... E-500-2026

You can choose:
High exhaust which prohibits use of side bags or even a top box rack because it uses the mounting point, plus they state you have to relocate the indicators but don't provide a bracket.
Low exhaust which totally misses the body line and so looks weirdly flacid.

I guess there isn't the demand that there was back in the pre Euro 3 days.

They've got to make back those R&D and tooling costs somehow, and if it isn't by selling at volume then it's got to be higher unit prices.

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2026 12:06 pm I guess there isn't the demand that there was back in the pre Euro 3 days.

They've got to make back those R&D and tooling costs somehow, and if it isn't by selling at volume then it's got to be higher unit prices.

It may be that demand is lower. There's certainly less of the auld culture that every bike needs to be obnoxiously loud, so I guess if you don't want loud then you're more likely to stay stock.

But even if I don't want obnoxious, I really dislike black painted silencers. For me it's a big sign of penny pinching, but it's now crept up to relatively large and expensive Japanese bikes.

I had a Quill T3 on my 955i Speed Triple, it was quiet at low revs but still sounded really good when you revved it.

I bought Arrow exhausts for my 06 Speed Triple 1050. £650 back in 2014 but that was for 2 silencers and link pipes

My 2010 Speed Triple has Arrows too, but they were a factory option that were on the bike when I bought it

Look on AliExpress

Mucho cheapiness

27 years ago I paid $700 for the Muzzy Meg on my ZRX11. These days, a used one sells for twice that as Rob Muzzy retired & closed the shop.
It's a tad melodious & even though it's stainless, it weighs a bit less than the full Ti Akro system.. probably owing to the dearth of internal gubbins to make it quiet (& I removed some of what little there was). There's no way in hell you'd get away with it in the UK. I did the kill switch on/off flip in a tunnel last month & the resulting BOOM!! sounded like a cannon... which pleased me greatly.

Not bothered on the GSXS, it sounds really good with the stock can, which to be fair is pretty much straight through with the silencing in the Cat I presume. No idea what it sounds like off the bike, but when riding it's a nice tone/volume. I even think it looks good, better than most aftermarket cans which is rare nowadays.

The stock can on my 1200GS is a massive twin exit hexagonal thing, but it looks fine on a massive bike. The cheap traditional styled cans look dead wee and nesh on it.

I would like a bit more noise, but the decent brand cans that are similar in size are all well over £600, some of the HP Corse ones are over a grand, just for an end can!