I didn't think anybody would know what I was talking about, surely nobody under 40! So, if you remember Ultra-Man, did you have Johnny-Socko too? So, I think that too many years of breathing through their eyes as children and combing their hair with strangled magpies have so affected Japanese muffler designers as to foist these abominations they call mufflers upon us. Wasn't there a recent Kawasaki with 4 of these beasts ala the CB750 rendering it somewhat like a refugee from a Rodan movie?