Well here it is: I don't get loud pipes. Yeah I said it and I mean it.
I hear HD's burbling along like they are moving a mountain and my Busa has more than twice the power and its pretty quiet mostly. Open her up and she lets out a roar, but why the noise when nothing is happening? I started my love for motorcycles as a 2-smoker. Those bikes needed back pressure in the exhaust so when you hears a loud bike you knew they were going to be slow! Yes, race bikes are loud, but they can get more air into the engine so they need to get it out. And most are designed for max combustion efficiency at WOT.
There is no proof that loud pipes are safer. In fact I have read several articles where they showed no effect at all on drivers attention. Let's face it, a driver who is texting wouldn't notice you if your pipes were stuck inside their windows! And the old lady (yeah, a lady my age) isn't going to bother looking behind her no matter what's back there.
Frankly, I love to slip out of my neighborhood unnoticed early in the morning, head to the back roads. Then people hear a wolf howling in the woods as I open her up. Something cooler about stealth. So I don't get people who say "I need a new exhaust, something loud". I can see "I need a new exhaust, something that adds power" or "something that is lighter".
The really fast guys are slick. They don't show off, image is secondary to real performance. It's sort of like those old westerns. The fastest guy in town was never looking for a fight. Guess if you are the fastest, there's no need to try and prove it?
I hear HD's burbling along like they are moving a mountain and my Busa has more than twice the power and its pretty quiet mostly. Open her up and she lets out a roar, but why the noise when nothing is happening? I started my love for motorcycles as a 2-smoker. Those bikes needed back pressure in the exhaust so when you hears a loud bike you knew they were going to be slow! Yes, race bikes are loud, but they can get more air into the engine so they need to get it out. And most are designed for max combustion efficiency at WOT.
There is no proof that loud pipes are safer. In fact I have read several articles where they showed no effect at all on drivers attention. Let's face it, a driver who is texting wouldn't notice you if your pipes were stuck inside their windows! And the old lady (yeah, a lady my age) isn't going to bother looking behind her no matter what's back there.
Frankly, I love to slip out of my neighborhood unnoticed early in the morning, head to the back roads. Then people hear a wolf howling in the woods as I open her up. Something cooler about stealth. So I don't get people who say "I need a new exhaust, something loud". I can see "I need a new exhaust, something that adds power" or "something that is lighter".
The really fast guys are slick. They don't show off, image is secondary to real performance. It's sort of like those old westerns. The fastest guy in town was never looking for a fight. Guess if you are the fastest, there's no need to try and prove it?