Your Motorcycle Exhaust is Not Big Enough
Motorcycle exhausts can be works of art — just take a look at an early-2000s KX125 — but this one is uniquely bombastic
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Telling a man “it’s not big enough” is an easy ticket to a bad reaction. In an age of growing and overwhelming acceptance we’re told constantly that, in fact, size “doesn’t matter,” but we all know that’s a falsehood. We’re talking about motorcycle exhausts, of course!
In the world of motorcycle exhausts, there is intense competition among brands like Arrow, Akrapovic, and Termignoni to create the best products for a variety of bikes across multiple disciplines and categories.
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But, from Italy, there is another contender, from ‘Carma Special Parts,’ shown in a YouTube video from Carmagheddon (perhaps you can see where the name of the ‘exhaust manufacturer’ came from). The company’s first, erm, product has been fitted to a 2008-spec Yamaha R6, and it really is pure fucking Carmagheddon.
Being a 600cc inline-four-cylinder with a conventional firing order, the R6’s engine does the singing for itself, so Carma’s choice has been to stand out visually.
The video details and explains (in Italiano, ovviamente) the construction process of the exhaust, before it is mounted to its host. Or, perhaps, it is the host of the R6, such is its enormity.
It seems fair to say that Yamaha’s MotoGP project has not been the inspiration for this design, the Iwata factory having run a single, slash-cut side-exit pipe almost exclusively since the final part of the 2014 season, and has rather taken a more maximalist approach instead.
We reckon it’s great, and could even act as a kind of crash prevention mechanism — once the pipe touches the floor, you’re about to crash. On the other hand, it could be a crash provocation mechanism for the same reason, but we’ll choose to focus on the positives.
Image credit: YouTube/Carmagheddon.
