A fine collection of mid-seventies J&R silencers. These were made and sold as a result of the general environmental awareness including the Less Sound-More Ground movement of the time. Fine on trail bikes and street bikes but also required on racebikes where they were not universally appreciated, races are supposed to be loud!
MotoGP agreed with that view, allowing open pipes on the racebikes when the formula changed to fourstrokes in 2002.
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Hi where did you get these J&R silencers? I am interesed in buying some thanks
I just googled J$R Silencers out of curiosity since the last time I checked a few years ago, this was the only thing I'd ever googled and got zero hits. My brother and I worked after school at J&R stuffing silencers. Ron Fry was the owner and a motorcycle racer. We went to high school with his sons which is how we started working there. We ran the little mufflers on our mx bikes long before they were required. I love the sound of four strokes but when the two strokes took over they screeching noise they make was painful and made non-riders hate bikes. We moved away and I have always wondered what happened to the business and the Fry family. I had hoped to find a couple original J&R's for my Rickman Metisse TR6C but no success.
It is nice to see a few of the originals in the picture. We made them in a lot of inlet diameters to fit on all kinds of bikes. There were two inner core diameters depending on the inlet size. They were light, simple, easy to repack, inexpensive, and they did lower the noise level some, better than the other brands. Although J&R sold the same mufflers with other brands stamped on them so other companies could claim theirs were better. Good times!
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