Has Anyone Ever Had Their Exhaust Randomly Snap!? I went…
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Has Anyone Ever Had Their Exhaust Randomly Snap!?
I went three years without a bike as I grew my barbershop, and finally picked up an 07 street bob two days ago. Yesterday when I was cruising the highway, I heard a “bubble popping” sound I had only heard once before when my el-Camino had its pipes come loose from the headers. I look down and I couldn’t beleive my eyes. One of the bikes pipes randomly snapped clean in two.
My guess is heat / cold shock but I’ve never seen or heard of this happening before! Anyone else ever have a suprise exhaust snap!?
\*\*\* I DID NOT PUT THESE ALUMINUM FOIL PIPES ON THE BIKE!!!! Just clearing that up because I don’t know much about them. I was just stunned after multiple years of riding that a pipe could just snap!
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I went three years without a bike as I grew my barbershop, and finally picked up an 07 street bob two days ago. Yesterday when I was cruising the highway, I heard a “bubble popping” sound I had only heard once before when my el-Camino had its pipes come loose from the headers. I look down and I couldn’t beleive my eyes. One of the bikes pipes randomly snapped clean in two.
My guess is heat / cold shock but I’ve never seen or heard of this happening before! Anyone else ever have a suprise exhaust snap!?
\*\*\* I DID NOT PUT THESE ALUMINUM FOIL PIPES ON THE BIKE!!!! Just clearing that up because I don’t know much about them. I was just stunned after multiple years of riding that a pipe could just snap!
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Highway, two days into the Street Bob, and that bubble-popping sound. That's a miserable way to mark the end of a three-year break. It reads like the same failure as the El Camino headers letting go — a joint or a weld that was already tired and finally snapped under heat and vibration. Glad you looked down before it turned into a drag. Was it a clean break, or did the pipe just separate and hang?
