The abbreviation for decibel is "dB", in case someone needs to know that.

 

The jam session starts at 8:00. It's pot-luck, so try to bring something that everyone will like. Everyone who's going to be here likes loud pipes to go with their Nachos (or whatever). My guitar amp has been on the fritz for a bit, so don't be surprised if I improvise my solos with revving my bike and chainsaw if a swift kick to the head doesn't wake my amp up. I might even do an NFA-compliant solo with one of my full-auto weapons just for poops and giggles. Did I mention that I live waaaay out in the country, and that to be "out in front of" my house you'd either be more than half a mile away where your drumming probably wouldn't even drown out the cicadas, crickets or bullfrogs, or actually on my property?

If I were a less welcoming sort though, and you set up your gear just to prove a point that I can be bugged by noise, which certainly, I can be, I promise I won't write my Congress-critter and ask them to pass a law making your point-making scheme illegal. Instead, I'd talk to you first to see if we couldn't come to agreeable terms about your attempt to prove a point against me on my own property, and if we couldn't, I'd just eject you off my property the way I would any other unwanted trespasser.

I realize it was an attempt at light-heartedness to make your point, but loud pipes on public roads is hardly analogous to trying to make a point by trespassing on private property and drumming me and my family into oblivion. Either way though, I would never call cops or law-makers to handle for me what any grown man should be able to handle himself, that being, a simple and fairly trivial dispute between adults.

Blues

 

Sound like my kind of brother.

 

Nice bike ..

 

Definitely some excellent points have been made in this thread- for both sides of the "loud pipes" issue. Obviously a heated topic with some! Whether you ride with stock pipes or aftermarket pipes, I think we can all agree that common sense and ultra-defensive driving abilities are a riders best assets. Safe travels fellow H-D riders!

 

Loud pipes may or may not save lives, but they sure as hell save my libido 'cause at 63 yrs old, I still get a woody every time I hear 'em!

 

Yeah, it's rather funny that motorcycle noise is the big issue. I think with all the other issues in the world, those of us that like loud pipes can have them. It's part of what makes a Harley a Harley, in my opinion. If you want a bike that makes no noise at all, a company called Honda sells them, you should check them out. Otherwise, stop your griping about loud pipes.

 

I don't think that most here are against loud pipes but trying to make the point to go easy on the throttle if the situation should warrant it.

You know, like rolling through a neighborhood or in town or a db just blipping the throttle just to hear the pipes and to bring attention to themselves.

A Harley isn't a Harley if it doesn't make that sound that we all (most) desire, it's just there is a time and place for everything.

 

For those that are fine with that noise, I do agree, time and place for everything. But there were some on here equating loud pipes to being some kind of moron...that they won't ride with guys with loud pipes due to noise, those are the ones i am talking to. They should go get Hondas cuz we don't need them.

 

Who clearly has brain damage from a motorcycle accident years ago....

You want to drive on roads maintained by the government, with a license issued by them? There are two fundamentals, wear a seat belt or wear a helmet, really simple, doesn't hurt.

Clearly you missed that "ask Gary Busey" was sarcasm because his brain damage from his helmetless accident is very obvious.