I made lollipop baffles for my long shots to quiet the nasty back rattle they made. I wouldn't have taken the baffles out myself but they were out when I bought the bike. I don't wind it up going through my neighborhood, don't really wind it out anywhere except getting on the freeway. Sitting at a light I don't constantly rev it either but dont see the point of being quiet just so the cell talkers can hear their conversation. Not making any apologies for what I have. Personally I love the sound of Harleys baffled or otherwise.

 

your bike cant possibly be that loud while idling....

mines loud, but im not going to shut it off so the car next to me can hear. They do have a automatic window button.

I hate how ppl hate on crotch rockets. They are all loud rockets and harleys alike.....hell, i hear stupid little two stroke scooters ripping around boston, those damn things are loud. Anything louder than a stock 4 wheel'd vehicle will make car/truck people angry and annoyed. Its life people, you need to deal.

 

I love them too...but in their place. I also grew up wrenching 60's musclecars, and lots of offshore racing type boats with rows of big blocks and Captains Call exhausts that you'd open up when out there and REALLY make noise.

There's a time and a place for everything..and the jerk that loves to crank their right wrist while duckwalking their bike through stop and go traffic on main street in downtown quaint areas just to "...look at me everyone...LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE" needs to be kicked sideways off their bike and have that hollow pipe shoved up their ****, or my size 13 boot crumpling the pipe so it's sounds like a crushed kazoo.

And while I'm my Jeep at a stoplight and you pull up next to me and crank the throttle....no I'm not talking on my cellphone and can't hear it, maybe I'm listening to my stereo at a normal volume and can no longer hear my music..but I'm stuck hearing your noise. And oh yeah I l love to hear metal music too..so I'm not too old (reply to prior poster in this thread)...but I'd rather keep hearing whatever is on MY radio, NOT yours as you impose your so called music on everyone in a surrounding 5 block radius.

Gotta love the small % of peeps that insist on ruining it for the rest of us.

 

I hate screaming kids,barking dogs,loud music,loud pipes on cars,trucks and bikes! Damn noise drives me nuts,unless I'm making it

 

Deep mellow tone is where it's at, IMHO.

~Joe

 

I hear ya....2 things I hate:

Crying babies
bitching women

~Joe

 

I'd rather hear loud bikes go by instead of the a$$wipes that let their dogs bark all night long

 

like I said I don't do that stuff. Idle at the lights, don't lane split so I wouldn't be sitting next to your open window except in the next lane, and generally short shift thru town. Can't speak for the rest of the Harley crowd but the folks I ride with don't do it either.

 

Some chick passed me on the Intersate yesterday on a V-Star 650 with straight pipes... Holy freagin ****.....Another guy rides with us with a V-4 Magna with straight pipes....

 

If my loud pipes are annoying someone in a car or truck, then "I" know "they" know I'm there, and will hopefully avoid me, making me safer......

There's limits to everything in life, and there will always be those who feel the need to push those limits, my Fat Boy has Cycle Shack slip-on's, and they also have baffles in them. They are loud, but not what I consider obnoxiously loud. I do have neighbors, and I try to respect them. If I take off early in the morning I don't start the bike until I'm dressed and ready to roll, I don't let it sit and idol at all, when I come home I pull into the driveway, turn it around and shut it off right away. I also don't get on the throttle until I'm out of the residential neighborhood, I wait til I'm out on the county highway where there's few homes and mostly all business establishments.....but that's me....