Loud pipes save lives?

[JPaganel]

If the pedestrians hear you i think its a plus they don't always look where there going. 

People routinely get run over by trains. A train is this damn loud thing that travels on a fixed trajectory. Oblivious people are oblivious.


Look, if you like making noise and annoying people, own up to it. Don't pretend it's somehow a safety feature.

[charleygofast]

Where I work, a train passes by about 100feet from our building,  sometimes 20 times a day all types some like the Amtracks, are goin full tilt boogie. You'd have to be deaf/blind , wasted, or have a death wish to get run over by one. (two 19 yr olds did die this year on purpose here) They are f-n loud and I'm usually wearing ear plugs... On the loud bike issue...I like to hear my motor and I drive it by sound and feel (and the speedo) not so much by the tach...that comes from riding dirt bikes forever I guess. I.m sorry but the stock exhaust setup just didn't do it for me. I've never had anyone complain about my FJ being too loud. I think it sound awesome. (I.M.O.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Charley.

[JPaganel]

Where I work, a train passes by about 100feet from our building,  sometimes 20 times a day all types some like the Amtracks, are goin full tilt boogie. You'd have to be deaf/blind , wasted, or have a death wish to get run over by one. (two 19 yr olds did die this year on purpose here) They are f-n loud and I'm usually wearing ear plugs...

Exactly. And yet, people get run over by trains. A loud bike ain't gonna do much.

On the loud bike issue...I like to hear my motor and I drive it by sound and feel (and the speedo) not so much by the tach...that comes from riding dirt bikes forever I guess. I.m sorry but the stock exhaust setup just didn't do it for me. I've never had anyone complain about my FJ being too loud. I think it sound awesome. (I.M.O.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Charley.

You wanna have a loud bike, fine. So long as you don't run it under my windows. And I find your rationale perfectly acceptable. You like it, and that's it.  It's the guys that say they do it for safety that annoy me. They want to be loud, but they also want to pretend like it's a necessity, not just them entertaining themselves.

[movenon]

For what ever it is worth loud pipes also can attract LEO's attention.  Also I would rather be able to hear my engine.  When I repacked my old Cobra mufflers it felt like I picked up some power in the mid range that I ride in most of the time.  No numbers, just a seat of the pants feeling.  I personally don't like overly loud pipes.
George

[ken65]

None of my bikes have noisy exhausts but my old honda has a noisy front brake and if i want to alert any pedestrians that i'm coming,
a couple of light pulls on the lever and everybody snaps their heads to me.

[mikedastonfj1100]

Billy, have you seen that South Park episode? If you haven't you should, it's  here somewhere on the forum.

It perfectly sums it up for me..

Exactly my thoughts too, Pat.
My wife and I took a drive to the Mississippi River today, and at one of our stops, the usually "Harley" group pulls in, and one of them idled for several minutes longer than the rest, revved, shut down, restarted and revved again, almost to announce that he had "arrived"!

WHY?

Any time I have ridden with our Rally riders, the engines shut down at the moment we reach our destination.

I don't know, maybe we are not doing it "right"!?!?!?!


brum, brum, brum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FAGS!

hahahah...:-)... Wow... That's hilarious... I rev once in a rare occurrence...but not obnoxiously... Fags:-).... Funny:-)...

[JPaganel]

The South Park episode is called "The F word".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsRY0lqCYSQ

[mikedastonfj1100]

The South Park episode is called "The F word".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsRY0lqCYSQ

I remember that episode... Made me laugh the first time I saw it:-).... That episode never get old:-)

[mikedastonfj1100]

I remember a year or so ago I threw a kids lifejacket at a guy haulin but down our street on a newer raptor 700 atv... After that he didn't speed down our street or in the neighborhood anymore... Found out a month ago he moved away.... It was like everyday he was doin like 70 mph+ day and at night.... So one day I hide behind my truck waitin for him to fly by... Like clock work he came flying by so I timed it right and all he saw was something orange goin past the front of him almost hitting him in the face:-)....

[mikedastonfj1100]

I didn't want to hit him... I just wanted him to slow the heck down... There are little kids on my street that like to play street hockey...

[simi_ed]

A buddy of mine who has a couple Ducs has a t-shirt that says "Loud Clutches Save Lives".
Zwartie

My thoughts exactly!

[giantkiller]

My custom chopper has loud pipes. And tons o torque about 5 ftlbs.more than my 1350. But I tried to keep it as quiet as possible around residential or anywhere that would be disrespectful. On main street bars, crowds of loud people, music, late. I let it snap. Liked spinning the 250 at about 20 mph. Anyway I got pulled over almost instantly. Cop said mostly because he wanted to look at my bike(happened 4 times so far). I told him I was just showin off. He said. "Unfortunately when you have illegal exhaust you shouldn't be doing it on main street at night. If you want to let err go, go out there and do it." He said making a sweeping arc with his arm at the residential area. He really liked my chopper didn't give me a ticket.  Anyway I like the way it sounds. I like the way any piped bike sounds but you have to respect. Others and keep it quiet when appropriate. (I have a piped, cammed, intake, power commander. Raptor 700. I hate that it's loud. Have quiet cores, still loud. But it makes so much more power )

[novaraptor]

Back in the mid to late 70's in Las Vegas, the push was on to get the police to stop ticketing harleys with straight pipes. The reason they wanted straight pipes was to get the extra 2 or 3 horsepower out of the engine. Not a word was said about saving lives. When I returned in the mid 80's, it was all about "saving lives". So now, mostly the cops leave the loud motorcycles alone, but some people on scooters and mopeds say that they get tagged alot because they run modified exhaust to get a little more power. Do loud pipes save lives? Well, yeah, sometimes. For instance, if a bikers ol' lady is "entertaining" someone and she can hear the ol' man on the bike coming home from two blocks away, then yeah, probably a life or two has been saved. Mostly, I think it just pisses the cagers off toward all bikes.

[Bminder]

I think the South Park episode says it best.

[~JM~]

I have had more close calls with cyclists & pedestrians while riding my FJ than any other bike that I own. My FJ is mostly all stock with the original quiet exhausts. The bicycles are the worst. They don't hear me coming & move over to the center of the road.

Most of my bikes have an after-market or modified exhaust. I've often been able to rev the engine to warn someone faster than I can hit the horn. Whenever I'm in tight traffic I rev my bike up every once in a while to make sure that other drivers are aware of my position. Now Harley type of loud is just obnoxious & uncalled for. I don't understand how they can get away with being so loud. They are as bad, or more, than my 2-stroke MT/CR-250 with a DG chamber on it.