only when pulling in the drive at 3:00 am and my wife was expecting me back at 11.

 

If your lookin' for stock pipes there no shortage of them, everyone has at least 1 set stashed in the garage....lol heck, I'd sell ya a pair, fairly cheap...? hehehhe

 

I just took out the competition baffle on my pro pipe and modified it to become a standard baffle (cut the nozzle off and welded a end cap on)...much better, I can now ride with out ear plugs. Have a look at changing out the baffle

 

I hear more and more bikes running stock exhaust around here, but the % is still fairly small. I rode a 2010 stock Heritage for a day a while back and could not stand the sound of the bike. I could not hear the exhaust, just engine clatter. I liked the bike, but those pipes would have had to go. I run SE's on mine, so I'm into the LOUD pipe deal. But, if I wanted a Honda, I would have bought a Honda.

 

I am, I live in Maine. "The way life should not be." Thanks to a recently revised state law regarding loud exhaust noise, pushed through the state goverment and effective July 12th this year, at the behest of a group called MECALM. Remember the name, they will be coming to a state near you in the future.

 

My bike came wth Python 3's. When I bought it I asked the seller for the stock pipes since I come home from work at midnight and figured the neighbors would get pissed. Now it's 2 months later, the Python 3's ( which I love the sound ) are still on, no complaints from the neighbors. I asked the cop that lives a couple housed down if he hears me, he said no problem. Our bedroom is right over the garage and the wife doesn't even hear me. I just try to be quiet and it seems to work.

 

No I have never wished that one. I even pulled the baffles out of my MB pipes to make them louder LOL! If it's too loud than your too old LOL!

 

If you want your V&H pipes a bit quieter (2-3 db.), try adding the V&H quiet baffles. I did and am not sorry. My bike is still louder than stock, but has a much more pleasing tone and is no longer ear splitting loud.

 

If you think that's "the way life should be", that's cool, you're where you need to be... but you wouldn't be happy in Ohio...we're not big on restrictive legislation, and for the most part, the boys in the Statehouse understand that...

Down here it's loud pipes, no helmets, and CCW permits to protect our happy asses and our rights!

 

I'll have to venture my opinion that people who can only hear loud pipes if they're behind the bike have a serious hearing problem...or are in denial because the "loud pipes save lives" idea just doesn't fit their personal agendas...

My best friend lives a few blocks away from me, and my property runs from the street in front of my house to the other side of the block and the street that runs BEHIND my house, which is where my garage is...

I can stand in my driveway by my garage, and hear my friend heading to my place while he's at least 2 blocks away from the FRONT of my house...

And that's with a little hearing loss from flying in helicopters in the Army back in the 60's...

Just sayin...