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05-21-2015, 04:39 PM | #1 |
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straight pipes
Im so used to my old loud pioes but dont have money to buy pipes for my new vaquero. I was wandering how bad would it be if i ran my bike with just straight pipes. Take off the slip ons
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05-21-2015, 05:02 PM | #2 |
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I tried it once for kicks with no slipons, and with gutted pipes (which would act roughly equivalent to straight pipes). With nothing at all it was awful - not only painfully loud (in a bad way) but popped and backfired like crazy...I mean unrideable. The straight pipes were a little better but not much, the decel popping was still unbearable, sounded like a jalopy at the redneck Saturday night dirt races.
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05-22-2015, 01:10 PM | #4 |
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Straight pipes, yeah great idea, we don't have enough problem with the general public now.
Make all the noise possible and piss off more of them
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05-22-2015, 11:35 PM | #5 |
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I thought this thread might catch your attention Tim. .
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05-23-2015, 10:16 AM | #6 |
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It just never ceases to amaze me Bob, why so many people want to make obnoxious window rattling noise.
Is it a need for attention, a total disregard for others rights,the myth that loud pipes save lives or what? I will never understand it , but will never give up my soapbox either.
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05-23-2015, 10:26 AM | #7 |
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Not a fan of loud pipes either.
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belong on public roads.heck most racetracks don't allow excessively loud pipes these days as the neighbor complaints about noise have closed more then one track down.
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05-23-2015, 07:44 PM | #9 |
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Same... I bought a bike equipped with a stereo, and we don't even switch that on.
We've ridden once in a group through a crowded city center - behind a guy wearing a muscle shirt playing some random loud country & western music over his Voyager speakers & blipping his throttle unnecessarily... I was 3 bikes behind him & avoided making eye contact with anyone. It won't happen again.
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05-26-2015, 06:32 PM | #10 |
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"Loud pipes save lives" ain't true?
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05-27-2015, 12:42 AM | #12 |
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Agreed, just screwing with you. I owned a bike with pipes far too loud. Wasn't civil even leaving my neighborhood. Never again.
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05-27-2015, 06:16 AM | #13 |
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I like them blood squirting loud, it makes me feel like a real biker.
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05-27-2015, 07:45 AM | #14 |
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I have heard your bike Gerry, it sounds about as loud as a sewing machine
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05-27-2015, 08:46 AM | #15 |
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Never could figure out a saying my grandmother used to say, a stitch in time saves nine. Does that mean 9 sewing machine quiet bikes travelling together will be saved at the intersection because they could actually hear the horn beeping of the runaway bus?
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