Well, I finally got round to fitting the PipeWerx de-cat link pipe and silencer, and boy am I glad. To start with, the standard item looks a bit drab, doesn’t it? I mean, you might have thought that the SP version of the MT-10 might come with something a bit flasher looking out of the factory, exhaust-wise, considering how trick the rest of the bike is, but no. So reason number one for going down the Pipe Werx route is purely aesthetic. Reason number two is aural; the bike wasn’t quiet, but there wasn’t much of an exhaust note – it was a mixture of induction noise and engine rumble which, if I’m being brutally honest, didn’t set my world on fire. Reason three was weight – I know how bulky and heavy the standard systems tend to be, with their exhaust valves and their catalytic converters. And reason four was to see if the power and the throttle response felt any different with an aftermarket pipe.