When I first had my Comet in 1956 it had a Burgess Silencer which by 1967 had fallen to pieces.
I bought a pattern one in Mansfield which had very poor Chrome and had it re-plated.
This was fine until about 10 years ago when I blew out the rusty baffles onto the TT Course in the Isle of Man.
It was then VERY noisy but the chrome still looked great.
I bought a second hand much quieter one from Tony East in the IOM to get home, but brought the old one back as a spare.
The Comet has seemed for many years to have been rather gutless and very reluctant to rev much above 60 in 3rd, but I did not notice a significant reduction in performance after fitting the quieter silencer in the Isle of Man - thought the problem was probably worn cams which was a puzzle because the lift etc. looked OK.
About a year ago the Tony East one was looking tatty, so I bought a new silencer for a very good price from Armours. This was of very good quality, but very noisy, so I put my old chromed, but empty one on to try and found that the bike went much better and was not much more noisy than with the Armours one. The Comet however was transformed and would easily go to 70 in 3rd with my noisy old silencer. To be fair the performance with the Armours one may have been better than the Tony East one, but I only tried it for a very short time and even with ear plugs it was painful for me to ride with it due to the noise. I had a word with Armours who said that this was their normal Vincent straight through silencer.
So I sold the Armours one to a friend and it seems OK on his Rapide, but what is the best silencer solution for my Comet, which will give good performance, be fairly quiet, be good quality, and not cost a fortune, please.
Matty
I bought a pattern one in Mansfield which had very poor Chrome and had it re-plated.
This was fine until about 10 years ago when I blew out the rusty baffles onto the TT Course in the Isle of Man.
It was then VERY noisy but the chrome still looked great.
I bought a second hand much quieter one from Tony East in the IOM to get home, but brought the old one back as a spare.
The Comet has seemed for many years to have been rather gutless and very reluctant to rev much above 60 in 3rd, but I did not notice a significant reduction in performance after fitting the quieter silencer in the Isle of Man - thought the problem was probably worn cams which was a puzzle because the lift etc. looked OK.
About a year ago the Tony East one was looking tatty, so I bought a new silencer for a very good price from Armours. This was of very good quality, but very noisy, so I put my old chromed, but empty one on to try and found that the bike went much better and was not much more noisy than with the Armours one. The Comet however was transformed and would easily go to 70 in 3rd with my noisy old silencer. To be fair the performance with the Armours one may have been better than the Tony East one, but I only tried it for a very short time and even with ear plugs it was painful for me to ride with it due to the noise. I had a word with Armours who said that this was their normal Vincent straight through silencer.
So I sold the Armours one to a friend and it seems OK on his Rapide, but what is the best silencer solution for my Comet, which will give good performance, be fairly quiet, be good quality, and not cost a fortune, please.
Matty