MOTAD ON FORUM

[motad_uk]

Motad is now on the forum- not of course to sell- but to be available to give tech advice and support on exhaust matters

sorry for taking so long to wake up and join!

Ian McDonald

[JamesH]

Welcome Ian - nice to have a proper Exhaust company here....would you guys consider doing a Yoshi style 4-1 for the 750??
Similar to these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yoshi-Style-4-into-1-exhaust-system-HONDA-CB750-SOHC-CAFE-RACER-CHOPPER-BRAT-/390964761131?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item5b0750d22b&vxp=mtr

[Trigger]

Welcome Ian. I think Motad must conform to a BSI standard and British rules of some sort James.

[motad_uk]

Welcome Ian - nice to have a proper Exhaust company here....would you guys consider doing a Yoshi style 4-1 for the 750??
Similar to these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yoshi-Style-4-into-1-exhaust-system-HONDA-CB750-SOHC-CAFE-RACER-CHOPPER-BRAT-/390964761131?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item5b0750d22b&vxp=mtr

For our sins- we made the uk Yoshimura for the distributor David Dixon (sadly missed!) in the 80s- they were dreadful !!-  losing mid range power bigtime. Piper made a similar system which was just as bad.

not so pedantic about noise as we were- but would not be happy putting our name to this- just not enough volume to get reasonable power and noise levels

[JamesH]

Fair enough. There must be an opportunity though for a decent looking 4-1 system for the 750. everything I've seen to date just looks a bit bland..?

[AshimotoK0]

This Forum just gets better and better . Big welcome Ian

AshD

[motad_uk]

Fair enough. There must be an opportunity though for a decent looking 4-1 system for the 750. everything I've seen to date just looks a bit bland..?

up for doing something different- with so many people restoring them to original (and then not riding them as they have spent so much money- I regret selling that mint k2 for £330 all those years ago! )- I am up for suggestions. Only downside is that any "proper" system needs perhaps 40-50 hours of work on development and preparation for manufacture so we need to sell around 20 to cover these costs

[Green1]

Welcome Ian
If you Design something better looking than the standard Motad I'm sure you would easily sell 20 on this forum alone.

Mick

[hairygit]

Something better looking than your current generic silencer for the CB750 F1/F2 would be great. Something with removable baffles maybe, so we can make them a little less restrictive, without drilling holes in the end of the current silencers to stop them stangling the top end power:))

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[Johnwebley]

Fair enough. There must be an opportunity though for a decent looking 4-1 system for the 750. everything I've seen to date just looks a bit bland..?

up for doing something different- with so many people restoring them to original (and then not riding them as they have spent so much money- I regret selling that mint k2 for £330 all those years ago! )- I am up for suggestions. Only downside is that any "proper" system needs perhaps 40-50 hours of work on development and preparation for manufacture so we need to sell around 20 to cover these costs

any chance of replica CB500-4 ,HM 323 pipes? I am sure there may be a reasonable market.
hopefully -))))

[ka-ja]

welcome Ian,
                     It is a pity that performance related exhausts seem to be the domain of foreign makers, something with style with variable baffles would go down great guns with us cafe builders, I think they would sell!

[AshimotoK0]

We did ask David Silver via myself about the 400/4 pipe issue and so it's great you are on here to answer any questions. I think we all appreciate that to replicate such a complicated ( but beautiful in my eyes) system down to an affordable price must be a real challenge. Do you ever do headers double-skinned or is that too complicated /expensive?
I had a Motad on my KZ650B1 back in '85 and it worked great and low noise levels. Apart from when my 3 year old son filled the silencer with pebbles  . Bought a CB750K7 for 50 quid about 3 years ago that had been left under a tarpaulin outside  for so long that the frame had rotted out so you can imagine how bad the bike was I called it the 'Monster from the Swamp' ..Named  after a  little feature in 'Button Moon' ... don't ask !! . The PO had fitted a brand new Motad to it before abandoning it but this cleaned up so well that I sold it on eBay to a guy in Cyprus for 90GB and he was well chuffed with it, so chroming must have been decent! Is your chroming done in the UK? We are always on the lookout on here for decent chromers either here or abroad.

Cheers .  AshD

[matthewmosse]

Good to have you on the forum. I have have a few motad exhausts fitted to my bikes. I found the after sales support excellent when I bought a second hand incomplete system off ebay. I even have an old neta system in the shed off my cb550. they do last. I think a collector box / down pipes combo that accepted a variety of silencing packages might go down well.

[UK Pete]

Welcome Ian - nice to have a proper Exhaust company here....would you guys consider doing a Yoshi style 4-1 for the 750??
Similar to these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yoshi-Style-4-into-1-exhaust-system-HONDA-CB750-SOHC-CAFE-RACER-CHOPPER-BRAT-/390964761131?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item5b0750d22b&vxp=mtr

For our sins- we made the uk Yoshimura for the distributor David Dixon (sadly missed!) in the 80s- they were dreadful !!-  losing mid range power bigtime. Piper made a similar system which was just as bad.

not so pedantic about noise as we were- but would not be happy putting our name to this- just not enough volume to get reasonable power and noise levels

Hi Ian and welcome to the forum, the yoshi copy pipes available now from other countries sell well for example carpies (steve carpenter in the USA) yoshi copy so i dont think the power drop in the mid range puts people off, surely the way forward is to build a pipe that people want, sometimes looks and noise win over power gains
pete 

[Norniron]

Fair enough. There must be an opportunity though for a decent looking 4-1 system for the 750. everything I've seen to date just looks a bit bland..?

up for doing something different- with so many people restoring them to original (and then not riding them as they have spent so much money- I regret selling that mint k2 for £330 all those years ago! )- I am up for suggestions. Only downside is that any "proper" system needs perhaps 40-50 hours of work on development and preparation for manufacture so we need to sell around 20 to cover these costs

If you wanna do something different,how about some nice swoopy headers in polished stainless for the 550F