http://www.americantrails.org/resour...tionnoise.html


Here's a couple of tid bits from them....

Based on its opposition to excessive motorcycle noise, the American Motorcyclist Association recommends the following:


* All motorcyclists should be sensitive to community standards and respect the rights of fellow citizens to enjoy a peaceful environment.


* Motorcyclists should not modify exhaust systems in a way that will increase sound to an offensive level.

* Motorcycle retailers should discourage the installation and use of excessively loud replacement exhaust systems.


* The motorcycle industry, including aftermarket suppliers of replacement exhaust systems, should adopt responsible product design and marketing policies aimed at limiting the cumulative impact of excessive motorcycle noise.

* Law enforcement agencies should fairly and consistently enforce appropriate laws and ordinances against excessive vehicle noise.


* The motorcycle industry and the safety community should educate customers that excessive noise may be fatiguing to riders, making them less able to enjoy riding and less able to exercise good riding skills.




Louder pipes is fatiguing? Well I'll be damned...

Personally, I enjoy the loud rumble of my scoot. It does NOT fatigue me.

If you rap your pipes in the early morning and wake up your neighbor, or rap you pipes at a stop sign or red light saying look at me, look at me, you probably also duck walk at that same stop sign. You are a Poindexter.

Common sense. I just don't care for some organization that has pull and spends money to tell me how loud my bike should be...

 

The AMA can SMD.

 

Agree with/you re: using common sense (and also common courtesy). Too bad there are so many self-absorbed douchebags out there that don’t get it, act like fools, and bring the attention of The Man to all riders.

When I first put the V&H High Outputs on my SG I did find the sound fatiguing - my ears would ring after less than 100 miles. I installed the quiet baffles and now I don’t have any issue. Obviously this is a subjective thing cos your tolerances won’t be the same as mine.

 

I like loud exhaust but not the annoying douchebag low libido compesators twisting the right grip like a phallus.

 

next they'll be saying only 5% of all riders have loud pipes and we'll have questions about wearing a 5% patch on your cut* .




*btw don't do it . some 1%ers might not get the joke .

 

Needs to be a joke to get first.

 

AMA...

 

Blah blah blah

That's the sound my pipes are making right now.

 

Yup....

LMAO

 

AMA may have reached it's pinnacle of usefulness.