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Big_island_rider
| Posted on Monday, August 06, 2018 - 03:14 pm: |
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All of my Harleys have stage 1 and HD slip-on mufflers so not really loud but nice rumble. Can get louder when I twist the throttle. Having said that they have helped me out from a bad situation. Car started to merge into my lane right next to me, I started to move over, saw his window open, grabbed clutch, dropped one gear just in case and revved the engine. That got his attention more than the horn (on the opposite side of the bike) would have. He pulled back over, looked at me realizing what he had done, waved and said sorry. |
Xdigitalx
| Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 - 09:04 am: |
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Low frequencies travel very far, they do not dissipate easily and travel in every direction, this is why u can hear the hip-hop beats 1/8 mile before they reach you and deep loud pipes can be just as irritating!! High frequencies have a more focused direction. Horns also usually have a button that requires a finger to press ... loud pipes are constant. (Message edited by xdigitalx on August 07, 2018) |
Mtjm2
| Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 - 05:22 pm: |
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Was on a group ride Sunday . My first just because it was a fund raiser to help build a house for a local wounded vet. I could here the 4 or 6 bikes in front and non from behind. The only time I heard the bike to my right rear was when he got beside me |
Aesquire
| Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 - 10:54 pm: |
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I took the Wileyco Ti muffler off a few years ago because the loudness caused fatigue on long trips, and the 'hood I lived in was quiet.... I'm going to put it back on, now that I'm out in serious deer country. ( drove 500 miles last night, from PA, through nowhere... and the only deer I saw were within a mile of my house... and several of them ) But I generally agree that loud doesn't help much, since the pipe is facing the rear, and loud enough to make a difference is loud enough to attract unwanted attention. It'a a compromise, and I've leaned both ways. I do, however have an anecdote. On ( redacted) expressway, I had stopped at a rest stop, and while getting ready to resume, I considered that I had good sight lines until a certain point on a curve a mile or so down the road, where, not coincidentally, there was a "no turn around" aka "cop hole", often used to radar a nice speedy curve. Cyclone, Wileyco muffler, Loud, good terrain acoustics... Hmmm. And I "had a feeling" that there was a State Trooper waiting ahead for me. I'm not a psychic by any means, but I've learned to listen to those little voices. ( unless they tell me to do bad things.... usually ) So I rolled out of the rest stop, accelerated through the gears, rolled the throttle to the stop, and just let it Sing The Song Of Speed though out the valley, bounced off the rev limiter, then rolled off, until I came around the corner at a solid 65, right on the limit. And, as expected, right there was a Trooper, aiming his radar gun, and giving me such a poisonous look, as he KNEW I had just trolled him on purpose. |
Ourdee
| Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 - 11:18 pm: |
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Shoggin
| Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2018 - 10:05 pm: |
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"and just let it Sing The Song Of Speed" So good. Just so dang good... |
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