Morning all,

I don't think the brand of pipes would make any difference to the Police.  So removing the name plate wouldn't make any difference.  It's the noise they would be concerned about.  I recall discussions on other forums about the V&H quiet baffles, I seem to remember people saying they lower the noise slightly, but not that much.  That's also been my experience with installing quiet baffles on other  mufflers.

Short Shots are just plain loud and scream to be pinged by the police (its one thing I agree with too, not that I'm a conservative old fart, but the 'wannabes' that use them have buggered it for the rest).  Even Screaming Beagle pipes can be loud, but not so much that the cops will target you.

Ditch them and just about any other exhaust will outperform the shit shots for street riding 

Thanks Postie...Good info. I'm not too concerned about performance as the bike has plenty of balls for how/where I ride it and it's tuned properly. Got my hands on some stock pipes too just in case!

I’ll provide some less subjective and more factual feedback based on experience using v&h big radius exhaust, which is slightly longer and slightly less obscene than the short shots

Well said FB.

Thanks Fatbat! Good feedback...

I’ve had a few bikes, a few harleys, modified to various stages with cams, bigger bore cylinders, higher compression etc which impacts exhaust choice all the more. Everyone has their favourite pipes and thinks theirs is the best. It’s hard to have everything, the right performance, sound and look all of which is subjective to people and the bike, its mods etc 

https://www.serco.com.au/product/8551-ss-106-5771-tapered-slip-on-muffler-kit-chrome

have kromeworks slip ons on my dyna [ no idea of engine internals/mods] and it goes well for me.looks stock which i like,sounds nice too [ in my opinion...lol]

Picked up a defect on my street bob earlier this year with big radius pipes on. lucky i had a standard lowrider exhaust that i put on to get the defect off. the inspection cost $200. Here in adelaide if you put the pipes back on that you were defected for its an on the spot fine i think the cop said $450 then another $200 to get the defect off again. They also told me my bars were too high even though they are standard bars for the street bob. I had them pushed forward so it wasnt so cramped with a passenger. Bars have to measure 280mm from the top of the seat to the bottom of the grips so i just had to rotate them back until i got that measurement. I think this is a pretty dumb safety rule because technically you could have higher bars and just rotate them back until they were 280mm. You may have to sit on the passenger seat to ride your bike though. I love the sound of harleys with loud pipes but if you have modified your bike and go through an inspection you may find it very costly to put everything back to standard to get the defect off. In south australia we dont have to have an inspection every year to register our vehicles so to a certain extent you can get away with some mods but in other states i am surprised when i look at bikes for sale how they are getting them registered.  

Loud & proud buy a jappa if you want to be quiet lol 

or a bmw