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Notice all the pedestrians getting their shins sliced up just looking at those mufflers.
Yes I believe the shin slicer was later displaced by the full on pedestrian slicer front mudguard mounted number plates. Technology marches on and waits for no man.Notice all the pedestrians getting their shins sliced up just looking at those mufflers.
Me too.Great video, I can’t wait to see the scans turned into metal.
Uh, what?
It's a seam not a razor blade.
Did you even look at the video? If you're worried about the dangers of a muffler on a motorcycle you are in the wrong dang hobby.
Yes, I watched the video carefully.
I take notice you consider the seam craftsmanship harmless. Please respect that some people (even m/c riders) think otherwise. The Norton factory may have thought likewise.
It's antisocial to mock about opinions you disagree with.
-Knut
I see AJD just posted a description of the Manxman silencer on the NOC. Since she has the actual silencers, I have to defer to her description. According to her they have seams on both the outer and inner edges and the left silencer has some kind of spacer to clear the brake plate. It seems like making a completely accurate Manxman silencer may not be as simple as turning a standard silencer on its side. On the other hand, except for absolute authenticity types, it seems to me that you could make a reasonable facsimile of the Manxman silencer by turning a standard silencer on its side. After all the inside seam she refers to is barely visible. As for the differences in the interior baffling, I just don't think that's worth worrying about.Hi Bodger
I got flamed by AJD on the NOC when I made the same comment about them being the same as Dommie silencers albeit rotated through 90 degrees. Obviously the Manxman one was the original design but it would make sense for Norton to utilise it on later (Dominator) models if it worked. The other upside to this is that there is a much larger (and already existing) manufacturing capacity for Dominator silencers so utilising the same silencer with two mounting options would make remanufacturing a more viable option.
What is HSE and what’s so dangerous about having the seams out? It was just a styling choice I’m guessing.
And to think that I missed @Hobot...well guys, I do read all your comments on this forum, and I can asure you that the Norton Manxman 650 silencers other wise known in the USA as muffers , were made special for the Norton Manxman 650 only, And are no were like the dominator smooth look silencer of 1957 on to 1971, And are shorter and fatter and have two inside baffels one inside the other and a end cone that looks like a mushroom shape cap and made from thinker steel and then welded down both sides, this is were you get these seams, and then angeled two each other is a big long triangel welded mounting bracket that fits to the inside of the passanger foot rest and on the left side has a one inch spacer on the inside of this bracket to space the silencer off, from the rear back plate brake drum to stop this fouling on the brake drum, and I have all the part numbers for this machine, and some are not the same as the 650SS, there where parts on the Norton Manxman 650 that was not fitted to the later 650SS but both motorcycles are very good machines even on todays roads, and can give some modern motorcycles a run for their money and anyone that owns one of these machines, tends to be a proud owner of them has there a fine motorcycle to own now I hope this may help some of you,