I'm another one that likes the fact my bike is so quiet. I've had loud bikes before, and eventually you just find the noise tiring; particularly on long trips. It might be fun for a short blast, but try doing several hundred miles and the increase to your fatigue levels is noticeable. Not to mention the damage potential for your hearing.
A very broad and uneducated reply, as there must be H E L L of a lot of morons out there then, a lot of them motor sport professionals who advocate loud pipes on bikes for traffic awareness.
Calling someone a moron because they simply have a differing opinion to yours is... well... moronic :grin:
A loud pipe would be a waste of money for me as I wear earplugs and do all I can to quiet any wind noise. I will admit I do like the sound of some sportbikes with pipes but not on mine anymore. Some bikes just sound like crap with aftermarket pipes. But to each his own. Ride on.
Loud pipes as a safety thing is a complete red herring.
I've been riding motorcycles for 30+ years, mostly with the sport bike crowd. I've never known anyone who put loud pipes on their bike as a safety measure. Not one.
Granted, in specific situations -- say to announce yourself to the texting millennial swerving around in daddy's Canyonero -- being loud can be beneficial. But this amounts to what, .01% of your riding time? The other 99.99% of the time you're waking up every baby and old man in the neighborhoods you're driving through. But that's okay because it's all about you, right?
The grand irony here is that the loud pipe crowd thinks they're being cool announcing themselves to the world and anyone within half-a-mile. The world, myself included, for the most part thinks "what a douche."
A very broad and uneducated reply, as there must be H E L L of a lot of morons out there then, a lot of them motor sport professionals who advocate loud pipes on bikes for traffic awareness.
"A very broad and uneducated reply" contradicting "a lot" of "professionals" who's ego-driven opinion on the matter has no scientific evidence or basis in fact. I'm of the opinion myself that one needn't be particularly educated to recognize that a fanciful, self-serving claim made without any supporting evidence is just self-aggrandizement. And, yes, in point of fact there ARE a h e l l of a lot of morons out there. Comedian George Carlin pointed out that the "average person" isn't all that smart and half of people are dumber than THAT.
Moron was definitely the wrong word to use. Too pejorative.
When I was a kid and got my first bike, I had to take the muffler off to see how loud it was.
Only much later, after learning how damaging loud noises can be to your hearing,
and how annoying they can be to the population in general, did I start to favor quieter pipes.
I still like a deep, low pitched, throaty exhaust sound, but don't care at all for pipes that are loud
enough to exceed the pain threshold.
I fall under the category of "it depends". If you're just putting pipes on to be loud and draw attention? I'm not a fan of that. It's like the people who constantly blip their throttle. Get your bike tuned or stop looking for attention (the latter is the most common).
Now, if it's the byproduct of performance upgrades? OK...that's a bit different then. My CB is running OEM and likely always will. It's a commuter for me. But my Victory? I did cams, intake, timing wheel, FC and drag pipes. But I do run baffles and I don't get on it around houses or during normal "sleeping" hours.
Bikers are individuals and have individual tastes. Some like loud, some like quite. To criticise another for their personal taste is not in the spirit of being a biker. We look after our own. We are family.
I feel very disappointed that a fellow biker should degrade another because of his individual taste.
As someone said, when I was young............
Now I don't like to cause the immediate neighbors any avoidable discomfort so my GPR Deeptone is run with all baffles in. Having said that, I have a neighbor who is rides a Harley & he makes enough noise for all of us put together.
The other thing in this land is the matter of avoiding unwanted police attention. If they stop you for any reason, they are likely to check everything including noise level.
So, I like it, but I rarely let out the noise.
I have the baffle in my Leo Vince Corsa. It's loud enough to sound cool and get noticed, but much less loud than without the baffle. I rode for a week without the baffle and I got tired of the noise. I'm sure the neighbors are happier this way too. I've always found Harley pipes to be too loud, and seemingly in violation of noise ordinances too. But that horse is out of the barn.
I am an advocate of louder pipes. The stock pipe on the 2014 CBR500R was wayyyyyyyyyyy too quiet especially in heavy traffic near Seattle. Almost hit on a nearly daily basis. I put a Leo Vince slip-on and I can see people looking around for me now. Plus hi-viz yellow Scorpion helmet and hi-viz Joe Rocket jacket help too.
I feel the same way. I almost got run over 3 times in 2 weeks. I got the same Leo Vinci GP Corsa Slip on and dont have the baffle in.
Offtopic, I see black soot stains near the muffler clamp and along the bottom of the muffler. Like maybe wet soot drained down along the exhaust pipe. Have you noticed the same? or did I do something wrong while installing it? I can also smell gas in my garage if I rev it.
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