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Good Morning i just have a question to clear the air between the wife and I, I currently have a 2008 RK with stage 1 Air Filter and DNA full exhaust 2 into 2 pipes. I love the sound , the wife doesn't she says is too loud, I told her is cheaper to leave it the way it is. She says i should i go back to the OEM pipes (GRRRRR) i told her i would have to re tune the bike ($600) +/- , If and only IF i was to considered going back to OEM pipes will I truly have to retuned the bike?
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Oct 12, 2022, 10:58 AM
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Buy your wife earplugs. Even my Screaming Eagle Street Cannons were too loud for my wife, so she wore earplugs. But, to this day, she didn’t know I installed them in place of the OEM slip ons. I told her they got louder as they broke in.
Thank you!!!!
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I hope you can talk her into keeping it as-is. I don't have to have the loudest bike in town, but after being used to the sound of a good exhaust on my last bike, the initial miles I've put on my new bike with stock pipes while waiting on the HPI lead time have been pretty painful. I absolutely hate the stock exhaust.
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Joined: May 2012
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From: Carlsbad, CA
Buy your wife earplugs. Even my Screaming Eagle Street Cannons were too loud for my wife, so she wore earplugs. But, to this day, she didn’t know I installed them in place of the OEM slip ons. I told her they got louder as they broke in.
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Good Morning i just have a question to clear the air between the wife and I, I currently have a 2008 RK with stage 1 Air Filter and DNA full exhaust 2 into 2 pipes. I love the sound , the wife doesn't she says is too loud, I told her is cheaper to leave it the way it is. She says i should i go back to the OEM pipes (GRRRRR) i told her i would have to re tune the bike ($600) +/- , If and only IF i was to considered going back to OEM pipes will I truly have to retuned the bike?
The right kind of loud. (Whatever that means)
On the highway the wind is louder than the pipes.
Last edited by Highway Handler; Oct 12, 2022 at 11:57 AM.
