Exactly, :

Ok, is that enough

 

FOR THE INTERNET CHALLENGED: This means it is a joke or meant in humor. This means you gotta be f#%king kidding me:

 

Thanks guys. I appreciate all the lively input. I think my biggest thrill is just sitting on a well made traditional American product put together by honest folks in a basically honest company.

Try to find that anymore, as the government nationalizes our biggest corporations as we speak.

Well, gotta go. My wife just pulled up on her computer Rush slip-ons web site's w/ its cool audio clips. I'll be damned if she can one up me. Xmas is coming.....screw the recession.

 

I get a good amount of pleasure knowing my bike is no longer EPA compliant or legal in California.

I'll do just about anything to **** off Californians.

 

...easily amused I guess...

I think 99.99% of the bikes owned by those who frequent this site are not...

That's because right now to be Cali-EPA good sucks. No R&D has been done by HD, or the aftermarket, to allow Cali-EPA goodness on new or nearly new bikes without have a neutered bike.

The market would respond to that sort of regulation if it were everywhere, we'd adapt, it'd be fine.

 

I'm embarrassed to say how long I kept my stock mufflers, but I didn't want super loud ones and there seemed to be no in-between. I heard a bike at a gas stop one time that had just the sound I wanted, but the guy was having an argument with his girlfriend about whether she should be wearing shorts under her chaps and I didn't want to interrupt to ask what his exhaust was. I finally took a chance and got some DynoPower mufflers that looked just like stock on the outside, but had all steel baffles on the inside (for $85 including shipping!) and the sound is near perfect, not too quiet, not too loud, not tinny or metallic sounding. The mufflers have over 80K on them now, and the sound has not changed.

 

So as long as you put a smiley face after your insult that's ok. Calling a guy gay and a f'n poser is rude. Smiley face or not. That's all I got. No more comments from me on this subject.

 

your only punishment is never knowing the joy of dropping a gear, gunning it half way through a tunnel, letting off the throttle and breathing fire on the metrics behind you

 

Personally, I like my stock pipes. They have a nice rumble to them, and seem to have gotten better sounding as I put the miles on them. That's why I bought an Ultra, it has everything I wanted on it. I'm the only person that rides a Harley at work, and when the other guys crank up and then I do, you know it's a Harley, stock or not!

 

I have to say that I think about half of the H-Ds I hear are too loud, or at least loud without the right tone IMO. Just yesterday I was behind a Deuce that sounded like it was passing gas every time the guy lifted the throttle. Volume without quality sux...kinda like some of the kids back in my HS days putting duals and glass packs on a six-banger or even a V8 w/o headers (me and my friends were exhaust note snobs, I guess). It's just noise without the right note, but then only my bike has to please me. That's just a long-winded way of saying it's all about what you like-forget the rest of us.