Whats the point of having loud pipes if you screw in ear plugs so you can't hear them?

 

Just means they can justify getting louder pipes that way .

 

They block the wind noise more than anything.
You can still hear your pipes.
Most people think it's the pipes that cause the ringing in your ears after a 500 mile day.
It's the wind noise, not the pipes.

 

Are your pipes pointed up into your face? No.
The wind is. As Silverbill said, the wind is the problem, not the silky sounds of the violent sounding pipes. The pipes are behind you and pointed at your pals following you.

They must not make pipes that sound super loud or I would own them.

 

What they said^^ It is the wind noise that bothers me on a long ride. I think the reason it bothers more than the pipes is because of the higher frequency of the wind noise.

 

i'm half deaf so it doesn't matter. i would recommend that if you like hearing you should wear hearing protection, but i like to hear when i ride my bike too. i believe there are earplugs that only drown out the harmful sounds , but i'm too lazy to research it. plus it's more fun when someone proves you wrong anyway.

 

To let other people know you're coming

 

hey mug it's the wind noise that causes hearing loss not the pipes, bet that bright light and then getting dark all the time confuses a lot of people too.

 

something tells me 2kids has never ran 10-12 hours straight on a hiway.

nomsayin?

 

Because the rining in my ears doesn't go away...