2 Strokes Down Under

I took the old girl for a ride yesterday to my local coffee shop. Just tucking into a nice pie and a guy sitting at another table said is that your Suzuki? He then said well it sounds to loud and that he was a motorbike mechanic. This is the second person that has said its loud for a two stroke. I have brand new baffling in both mufflers. Are they correct or am I just doing something wrong?


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Curious indeed - that any bike should draw comment about noise. Maybe it was a sound they were not use to rather than the sound level.

If there are no obvious leaks and the baffles are fitted I can't see why the exhaust should sound loud. I'm not familiar with the GT185's baffles but they might be missing fibreglass mesh wrapped around the baffles.

The other possibility is that there has been some surgery performed to the internals of the pipe. But I can't see even these types of mods producing unsolicited comments about noise.

If it's too loud, your too old!


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Ha ha
What was the packing like around the baffles? You may want to pull them out and check if it's an issue. The other thing is to check how qualified your friendly advice source was to make such a judgement - ie how many other GT185's has he heard to compare it too...... Personally I wouldn't worry about it - just make sure there are a couple of Harley's around and you'll seem as quiet as a church mouse......

I think they just didnt like the noise, plenty of very noisy 4 strokes now and a packed 2 stroke muffler shouldnt be terrible really...

Plenty of open pipe Harleys around here that are bordering on painful to be too close to. Different levels of cultural acceptance.

Cheers for your comments. Got a good laugh. Maybe he was a bit precious. I have brand new baffling in both mufflers. Not sure what else to do. But She does sounds beautiful to me. [emoji1]


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