Loud Pipes
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From: Sulphur, LA
Loud Pipes
I have a little rant! In a lot of magazines I’ve been reading especially anything put out my Harley there is a big bitch about loud pipes. Here’s my take on this, first I keep reading about the H.D. rider firing his bike up at 0600 and waking the neighbors. This assumes we all get up at 0600 and we live next to lazy neighbors that don’t work. Tell your neighbors to get a job! Second all the young folks have flow master or some other type of after market mufflers on their cars and trucks, but I don’t hear much about them. Lastly you have all these spike headed, blue, red, orange, green headed idiots look like their mom slept with a peacock, driving down the road bumping their base with so called music that spills profanity all over the neighborhood and no one does anything about them either. So brother’s rap out them pipes, can I get an Amen? Disclaimer This does not necessarily express the views of my neighbors [align=left] [/align]
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From: Ashby, Ma
RE: Loud Pipes
I love the tunes from my bike's exhaust!! They're not louder than a rock concert, but they're louder than stock and I like it that way.
Don't forget how loud the dump trucks, buses and even deisel pic-up trucks are. They're all MUCH louder than my bike and spew all sorts of **** into the air.
Bikers can be an easy target and some of the boring sheep of out society love to push that old style biker "out-law" image and even some cops still have that head-set.. not many but some.
ILOVE MY LOUD PIPES!
LOUD PIPES ROCK!!
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RE: Loud Pipes
I go to work at 5:00 am...don't ride the harley all that often because I'm only 4 miles from work and don't like shutting it down before its good and warmed up....but when I do, I take it really easy riding through my neighborhood and all the way through town. I know the Vance and Hines pipes on my Ultra are loud.....no point making any enemies if I don't have to. Now during the day I don't mind letting them rip and even setting off a car alarm or 2.
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From: santa rosa ca.
RE: Loud Pipes
i love makin noise i got load a$$ pipes and a load a$$ stereo so i can here it over my pipes even at highway speed [sm=icon_rock.gif]
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From: Columbus, Ga
RE: Loud Pipes
I like my Pythons and I guess they're loud enough to wake the neighbors, but I gotta ask - what about the neighbors who work at night and get home in the wee hours and climb in bed. Don't they have a right to sleep, too.
Just a thought.
Hack
Just a thought.
Hack
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From: Sulphur, LA
RE: Loud Pipes
[align=left] Well I actually made the post in jest; I have D&D Fat cats with the quiet baffles, still gives the V-Twin sound and don't raise the dead. But I really do find it funny that the complaints are we're bad neighbors, like all Harley riders are up at the crack of dawn and the rest of the world is asleep. My neighbors are up and around about the same time I am. They seem to make as much noise as me just in different ways. Then of course there is the LOUD PIPES DON'T SAVE LIVES! Because the cagers don't hear them What? If they don't hear them then they're not a bother. As I pass someone my pipes are loud for about 10 sec then I'm gone. I think most folks can handle that. Last year at the Hog chapter MDA ride we rode through town and the streets were lined with people. The folks were out there twisting their hands like they had a throttle; they loved it when the bikes revved up. Man talk about rolling thunder,there were several hundred of us. Anyway I know it's very controversial, but the arguments really make no sense. Also I was a police officer for 11 years (now I work in a refinery, talk about noise) anyway in my 11 years on the street I never wrote a single loud exhaust ticket to a bike. So I still say rev em up!
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ORIGINAL: btefft
I like my Pythons and I guess they're loud enough to wake the neighbors, but I gotta ask - what about the neighbors who work at night and get home in the wee hours and climb in bed. Don't they have a right to sleep, too.
Just a thought.
Hack
I like my Pythons and I guess they're loud enough to wake the neighbors, but I gotta ask - what about the neighbors who work at night and get home in the wee hours and climb in bed. Don't they have a right to sleep, too.
Just a thought.
Hack
They are just whining because they don't have a Harleyusing sleep as an excuse.
90% of the time it's the wife nagging him to"do something about it" ....yeah right
There are people out there that complain, if its not your bike - its your dog - your lights- your lawnmower-your RV is too big. they WILL find something, so I save them the trouble, then ignore them. they think I'm a jerk and everything works out fine. I sleep great I just wish I heard bikes more often.