has anyone seen my baffle?

[Lucky]

remember this:?

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It seemes that durring the construction i used the materials i had at hand, including aluminum rivets...  see where this is going?  :D

I noticed it was loose the other day & very loose this morning, i figured i'd take care of it when i got home...
Labor day, almost no traffic, a twisty enough road to work & i rolled on the throttle.
hmmm that baffle must really be loose, it's getting louder, but i'm having way too much fun to stop...  ;)

I get to work after a great ride, get off the bike, & whoa! no baffle at all!
i've got this pic in my head of it tumbling end over end, tink! tink! tink! down the road..  hope there was no one behind me.., lol

i think i saw it on the ride home i'll look again the next couple of rides back & forth to work.

made a new one when i got home using STEEL rivets this time!  ;D ;D ;D

--Lucky

[ps2/bikevision]

ive lost several spark aresters off my dirtbikes over the years must be somthing about the heat, ive tried rivets, self tapping screws and even wire wrapped through the hole. nothing seemed to work till i started to weld them in.

is that rust i see on your center stand?

[Lucky]

is that rust i see on your center stand?

Yeah, but the whole bike has been cleaned & painted since then.  these shots were from when i first got it...

[YellowJacket!]

I can see that baffel puncturing one of those big dump truck tires on those trucks that are always driving through there.  Boy, that would be an almost instant flat tire.

David

[h2olawyer]

The hole that would put in a dump truck tire would probably require a boot to patch - if it would even be repairable.  Gotta keep those tire techs busy doing something more than replacing tires.   :D

H₂O

[Lucky]

3 passes now, no sign of it.
i made a new one last night anyway....

[82dasvision]

Maybe you should tie a rope on this one.... ;D
  Dave

[Rick G]

In '66  I test rode a TR6c  Triumph , (the c is for competition)  It had a set of high pipes down the side of the bike . The customer had spent a great deal of time fabrication a Siamese connection (like our Y pipe)  so that he could  use a Krizman spark arrester on the bike . I scooted down the road , not very far , but far enough so that I could wind it up , with out the shop hearing me.
Everything went well , until I returned . The spark arrestor was GONE, and so was the Siamese connector . It had blown right off the bike  and I didn't even hear it. I got royally chewed out  and the part that pi**ed me off, was that the guy didn't even thank me for doing the proof of concept on his design !!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(There was no way to run two cylinders through that arrester , with out blowing it off the bike!!! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

[Rick G]

Lucky , I don't know just how far it would have flown , but I've been keeping my eyes open , but I'm "baffled" as to where it went! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ::) ::) ::)

[YellowJacket!]

Heard the FBI was investigating  a strange automatic weapon silencer that was found along the road......

;D

David