Maybe you aren't cut out for this type thing as your reaction is rather pedantic and childish.
It's rather insulting to say that, it's your opinion. In general it applies that if there is no response to information there is no common ground, either the information is invalid, not important or not necessary. It's a self cleaning mechanism. Only information that is responded to has a value. It keeps the forum clean in a way.
This is a social media forum (a lot less like Facebook, more like reddit). As such, it is a place for people to communicate about a topic. Except unlike in real-time (in person), there is a different protocol.
A forum is a place where people discuss, not an automatic reply to questions like google or FB.
This forum increases in value as a knowledge base over time.
If this is really your opinion I don't understand why your thread on the bomber is full of questions since most information is readily available on many other threads on this forum.
Hi. I'm really sorry, but I didn't see your initial response. I'm new to both these forums, and to using Tapatalk to view them, and it's possible that I haven't fully mastered how to keep 'up to date' with all topics.
More importantly, myself and my wife have spent the last 5 days fighting a particularly nasty (for me, anyway) bout of Covid, meaning I haven't felt like checking in to forums as much as might do normally, nor typing much.
As a newbie (to both Honda CBs and this forum), I'm very appreciative of ALL advice, but equally aware that electronic communication is not a perfect medium - Sometimes there are perfectly plausible reasons for a lack of a response, which don't always signify disinterest or discourtesy.
Point taken, hope all is well.
To be honest, I hadn't compared them with factory ones. I will do that now!
Did you ? The original K0 mufflers do have two mounting brackets instead of one, like yours. The shape of the cone at the rear of your mufflers is a little different than the ones I know, that's why I thought these where aftermarkets, however, difficult to say.
If the sound you hear comes from your exhaust system, the tension due to heat expansion is probably the reason. One way to check this is to loosen the nuts of the mufflers just a bit (I always replace them with lock-nuts). I don't tighten the lock-nuts completely, but not too loose either. This way the expansion of your mufflers can find a way to relax. You could also loosen the clamp bolt between header and mufflers a bit, to give some movement room. If the mufflers are overdetermined, the force due to expansion will result in cracks around the bracket bolts, or even worse, just where the header sticks in the muffler. The after-market mufflers and headers are a too tight combination due to the clamp structure.
Thats also the reason why one-piece mufflers for the K0 are always cracked and replaced at some point in time.
