Installing a rear wheel mat..

Well, I was not happy with the thump of my bull, so had bought a big mat after seeing lot of bullets making thunderous sound with a mat installed. The shopping list also included a bracket to hold the mat and also couple of drills on the mudguard.
Mat: Rs35
Drill: Cost Rs30
bracket: Rs35


Got back home all excited, fit the mat and took the bike for a short ride. I swear the exhaust noise made every head on the roads turn and look at me. Initially I felt proud, however, after couple of kilometers I kind of felt guilty of causing this ruckus with such an outrageous noise :)
So took the mat off! This was some 1 month back.

Yesterday, being a Sunday, I again thought of installing it back. Opened my toolkit, removed the old, smaller mat and fastened the mat that had a silly picture of a tiger( why not a cat!!).

But this time I was wise. I wiggled the silencer sideways away from the mat so that the mat hardly obstructed the silencer's line of exhaust throw so as to reduce the intensity of sound. Happy with the home work, started the beast and ripped the throttle - the grunt was cool.

Today, 19th July, started off to office and as I had imagined, people could just not not turn their heads on hearing the thump :) I had earlier decided to switch to a Goldie but now am too happy with this inexpensive solution!!

With the onset of the monsoon, it also provides quite good utility of protecting the splash on the pillion.