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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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3 reasons...
reason number one
reason number two STUPID SHEEPLE and cell phones...
reason number three
I live in Arizona; I have to contend with Elk, Deer, Javelina, bears and Antelope, not to mention the occasional Sidewinder and the ever elusive Jackalope
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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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Funny you should post this topic, Stephen - from the responses it seems all us musicians are questioning the conventional wisdom of loud pipes.
I think once your hearing starts to decline, your ears become more sensitive *and* you realize that hearing isn't an "infinite" thing. I hate the idea of going deaf in my 60s.
Between helmet wind noise and those damn Longshots (even with modified baffles) at highway speeds, sometimes my ears ring after a ride.
I'm quite jealous of the guys I see riding by on BMW and Honda touring bikes - quiet in the wind....but I'm not about to blow $30K on a bike that I'll have to mod to fit (ever notice how most Goldwing riders are short....?) and nothing looks better than a big V-twin.
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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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Well I can tell you on my first long distance trip that took me through the mountains to the west coast of Canada (B.C.) the Yamaha Seca 750 that I fixed up ended up with Vance and Hines pipes. Not screaming loud, but loud enough, it worked better than nay deer whistle I have ever seen. It saved my life three times scaring wildlife away (deer, Elk, Moose).
So the factory quiet is not for me. Strait pipes would get me big tickets up here and p** off all the neighbors.
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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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i have read the comments here and everybody has their own beliefs, I agree with you completely. I do not like a quiet motorcycle but don't want to be silent. I have the cobra drag pipes with baffles and I love them. when your at a red light they are quiet enough for you to talk to other riders and not have to yell but when you get on them they open up and make a sound like you can only find on the old school bikes. just pure tone of horse power.
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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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Ride behind someone with obnoxiously loud pipes for 50 or more miles and you will know how others like riding behind you. Last long ride I was on there was a guy riding some sort of Kaw or Suzuki with drag pipes w/out baffles. They were obnoxious, loud and popping on decel. He thought they were cool but no one did. No one wanted to ride behind him and he didn't want to ride in the back. I'll just say it made for an unpleasant ride that should have been a great ride.
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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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davej wrote:
Ride behind someone with obnoxiously loud pipes for 50 or more miles and you will know how others like riding behind you. Last long ride I was on there was a guy riding some sort of Kaw or Suzuki with drag pipes w/out baffles. They were obnoxious, loud and popping on decel. He thought they were cool but no one did. No one wanted to ride behind him and he didn't want to ride in the back. I'll just say it made for an unpleasant ride that should have been a great ride.
Yep - the other thing is that municipalities are starting to pass restrictive bylaws limiting noise - a posh neighbourhood on the outskirts of the GTA (great place to ride through, right by Lake Ontario) passed a law in 2012 years ago limiting noise from bikes to 92 db when idling. Lots of people have been fined as a result.
Just found this on Amazon:
https://www.designengineering.com/category/catalog/dei-cycle/motorcycle-exhaust-pipe-wrap-kits/titanium-exhaust-wrap-lr-technology
Arrives next week - going to wrap my Longshots baffles as I discovered in another thread that doing this would lower the tone and get rid of some of the "blattyness". Hope it helps.
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Re:Why so loud? 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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I like a nice warm tone, nothing too loud but pftt pftt pftt, just doesn't do it. For the "loud pipes save lives" thing, maybe, but my concern is always someone pulling out and passing on a 2-lane so just doesn't apply. Beyond that I believe riding alertness will do much more than pipes will.
But let me offer this.
As per usual I let my Harley guy ride first from our breakfast place to tennis - about a 20 minute ride along a rather busy section of highway. He gets a new Ultra. Setup stock I follow him a couple times and he's constantly getting cut-off. "F..K THAT", he says and aftermarket's the exhaust. In the following 20+ times afterwards we ride the same patch of road ... not once! I will say though he's not the best rider at defensive driving (tail gates, blind spots, ...) but the pipes did the job!
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