Meanest sounding exhaust

MichaelB wrote;

Yea, kinda, sorta. Sooner or later I seem to miss all my Nortons which is why keep coming back.
What is it with these things anyway??????????

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After owning my first Norton for 15 years, I managed to be Norton free for about 11 years, but one ride on my friends 920 Commando, and that was it. I had to have another one. And here I am. They are addictive. :twisted:

This topic reminds me of when I was riding my 72 dunstall with the 2 into one into 2 again megaphones. I had a buddy who lived on a farm in the country but the house was right beside the hiway. I liked visiting him because you could really open her up going there. I should add he wasn't a farmer, he drove a logging truck. Anyway I must have been doing about 100 mph when I started slowing down (mostly by down shiftin) and by the time I dumped her into 1st gear to turn off the hiway and go down the steep gravel road to their driveway and scoot the 50 yards into their yard I no sooner shut my norton off when about 5 or 6 people came bursting out of the farm house all in a dither. As it turned out several of his loggin truck driver friends were over and they heard me comin and were arguing over who's loggin truck was comin. Some of em got up to go to the side window to see and settle the argument but by that time I'd gone by the window and into their yard. It was then they all came running out into the yard in disbelieve to see me and try to comprehend that all that noise had come out of my little snorton norton! It was definitely one of those fine moments.

The dunstall tuned exhaust had that beautiful drawback sound when ever you let off on the throttle and that's what tricked them into thinkin it was a jake brake on a big diesel engine.