keeping it quiet
Tourer
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 321
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From: Carol Stream, IL
try this ... I have 3 in my house. All bedrooms have it ... we take it everywhere and anywhere. Works like charm and you cant hear anything else once your ears get used to them.
Road Captain
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 686
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From: Niceville
So is the OP supposed to buy each of his neighbors one of those?
Also, unless your bike is setting off car alarms as you ride by, it ain't that loud.
And as far as neighbors in Florida do I have stories. . . But the statute of limitations hasn't run so I'll be quiet.
Also, unless your bike is setting off car alarms as you ride by, it ain't that loud.
And as far as neighbors in Florida do I have stories. . . But the statute of limitations hasn't run so I'll be quiet.
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Connecticut
To the OP. If it's the 5 month old baby you're worried about, can you roll the bike out of the driveway far enough where it wouldn't wake him/her?
Road Captain
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 662
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From: Kelowna, BC, Canada
OP,
We also just had a baby (he's 11 months now). I do the same as everyone else seems to be saying. I get on all of my gear. Get on the bike, start it, and ride of not much above idle. Once I'm a block away, I ride like the wind.
I'm hoping my kid will find the sound of my bike soothing at some point. But he hasn't woken up to the sound of my bike yet, and it's got a stage one with loud pipes.
We also just had a baby (he's 11 months now). I do the same as everyone else seems to be saying. I get on all of my gear. Get on the bike, start it, and ride of not much above idle. Once I'm a block away, I ride like the wind.
I'm hoping my kid will find the sound of my bike soothing at some point. But he hasn't woken up to the sound of my bike yet, and it's got a stage one with loud pipes.
Ultimate HDF Member
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Republic of Texas
If it is the stock exhaust ---it is quiet. Push it to the end of the driveway. If it isn't stock. Reinstall stock exhaust---it will sound like a honda.
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Road Warrior
Joined: Jan 2010
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From: South Jersey
I would just start it up and ride easy out of the neighborhood. unless the bike is obnoxiously loud nobody should be complaining.
Years ago I lived in a neighborhood with all duplexes. They all had a narrow alleyway between them. A guy down the street had an old Ironhead Sporty that he kept parked in the alley. He's start that beast up at 5:30am and it would be popping and backfiring. Sounded like a shotgun going off. The guy would be revving the crap out of it to try and keep it running. sitting in between two houses, that thing echoed thoughout the whole neighborhood. I would just lay in bed laughing my A** off, I'm sure there were neighbors that wanted to shoot him.
Years ago I lived in a neighborhood with all duplexes. They all had a narrow alleyway between them. A guy down the street had an old Ironhead Sporty that he kept parked in the alley. He's start that beast up at 5:30am and it would be popping and backfiring. Sounded like a shotgun going off. The guy would be revving the crap out of it to try and keep it running. sitting in between two houses, that thing echoed thoughout the whole neighborhood. I would just lay in bed laughing my A** off, I'm sure there were neighbors that wanted to shoot him.
Road Master
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 1,209
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From: Orange County, NY
nabors = neighbors
tempararly = temporarily
quit = quiet
adishion = addition
mite = might
steal = steel
barley = barely
To those getting on my case for being a "grammar ****"..........I believe this goes much farther than just poor grammar. The incorrect usage of an apostrophe is one thing...but seriously?
And you people who say "it doesn't matter how he types, we get the point", you're part of the problem with this society.
Unless the OP is deaf.................. then I will continue doing this
