I've come to the conclusion that in order to live through urban commuting I need to be heard. Thanks for posting this - it helped me decide what to do. I ended up taking a long punch and popping eight 1/4" holes around the circumference of the pipe through both plates. It sounds good (which is of course a matter of personal taste). It's not as loud as your modification, but loud enough to draw attention, and it was only 15 minutes of work.

Thanks man just followed these instructions last night and it came out great. Everything was exactly where you said it would be and I was back in the road in 3 hours. Great info it really helped me out.

I’m just about to do this to mine. Figure it sounds just as good as any slip on and it’ll save you hundreds of dollars! Thanks for the video !

Thanks for the Video - I used to own a TL1000S and I did a similar mod to the stock pipe (except that I only had to grind away three welds on some bolts that held the exhaust cap and then tighten up those bolts again with some locktight cutting away the baffle). I'm very familiar with that sound - pretty much identical. Music to my ears. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

My advice is to buy some after market slipons, and save the factory pipes. Buy a slipon where baffles can be added if needed.

@varmit670 Yeah i used to dyno in Vstroms when they first came out. Man it's the best thing you can put on these bikes. They become a big enduro with immense torque and power. The blimp the do, is due to the emissions tuning they to these bikes. I drove one that had,titanium acrapovics', k&n, geared and Power commander usb3 tuned. WOW-that's all i gotta to say. Love these bikes.

To enhance the sound of mufflers, the outlet tube can also be opened with a large, sharp bar. Additionally you can separate the pipes by closing the union of the exhaust pipes of each cylinder and it will give you a helicopter sound.

3:02 "I've done cut the end of the pipe off"

Thanks for the video, appreciate your knowledge and skill.

Excellent video, now, i supouse you ger a little more dB after this mod, how much increase?, just an aproximate value.

Great video Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the video. Do you have a Power Commander? Did you need to adjust your maps after?

Thanks for the upload

Sounds Great thank you

Great video, thanks, my 07' is going in 4 valve service etc. I want to put a power commander on as well as K&N air filter, I sometimes ride bike long distance touring, is a "little loud" prohibitive for 8-10 hr. days "2-up"? I guess some guys cut off left exhaust, and cap and put expansion chamber style on RH side and it makes monster torque. Thanks again and YES! vid did help!

show de bola muito obrigado fiz na minha e ficou top demais

nice job but to what purpose?

You should hear the sound of gpr.

I really want to make my Vstrom loud enought that I can hear the exhaust while riding, but I worry that it gets too loud. When I ride my moms Vulcan 900 with cobra pipes on it it gives me a headache after a half hour or so.

same result with no exhaust