I also have a tiger 1050 & i have to agree i do prefer the original exhaust, although it is abit on the quiet side.
Yeah i know you can get the TOR exhaust which looks the same but is louder & gives you abit more power, but do i really want to fork out £240 just to make it noisier?
As for the original looking ugly,i don't think it looks any uglier than some of the pipes you see stuck on the outside of some sportsbikes. The Triumph exhaust fits in close to the bike & looks part of the bike.
If i did get an after market exhaust though,from what i've seen so far,the SC pipes do look the best.I quite like the look of the oval pipe on their web site.
http://www.sc-project.com/triumph_tiger_1050_e.htm
Jez

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