My 2012 Street Bob, with about 2500 km's, started to make a really nasty rattling noise when I started it.  I thought it was from the exhaust somewhere and couldn't locate a loose bolt etc...

I dropped into Harley Heaven to get it checked out... Ooops - a crack about 3 mm wide, just near the active exhaust valve, the whole way around the diameter of the pipe has appeared!

Hahahaha! Yeah I know - it's just a stock exhaust... On the serious side, a replacement could be about 1 month away, as they are on back order in the US.

+1 

You shouldn't have to wait that long.

 Wonder how many more faulty exhausts are out there?

Two Problems with that statement.

$22000,hardley top dollar for a bike these days.

Premium motorcycle..........Very debatable........

+1 hmmm

They are a Premium Motorcycle in my eyes.....................................

Yeah you can spend more, but 22k for a bike is not chump change. I bought the same bike, id be pissed if my 22k bike shart its muffler.

there was a similar post recently but it was after market gear

Man you have every rite to be pissed off,not only for the failure of the exhaust but also for the piss poor service from the Dealer.

How many sets of pipes would be laying around in the shop ? or even just weld it to keep you on the road.

Yeah shit does happen but It doesn't matter if it's a $5,000 or a $50,000 bike you shouln't have to put up with any Failures.

An aftermarket pipe would be cheaper than the original,but being warranty & the Dealers inabilatey to be able to sell non genuine parts I doubt they will go for that.

Go back and push them for some sort of result to keep you on the road.

Hope they sort it for you and Quickly

Cheers Brett.........

 My 2010 fxd had a similar problem, similar Kms. That was 2 years ago. Shop welded it as temp measure.

I decided to keep the welded pipe, even though a new one was offered. 2 years and 16000 km later it's still good. I didn't want the hassle of replacement doing the same. Many others had reported the problem at the time, clearly a design / manufacture fault that was never fixed properly.

 if you have a look at the first picture at the weld spatter on the exhaust valve housing it looks like its been welded/repaired before? shorley there quality control is better than that lol and that probabaly explains the discoluration/blueing of the pipe in that area.