Posting for a friend, he's looking for some advice for a milder sounding exhaust. He's strongly considering picking up a new softail slim, and will be doing a stage one immediately. He loves the sound of the V&H monster ovals on my street glide, and absolutely hates loud obnoxious exhaust (his words not mine) such as V&H bigshots staggered. I tried telling him the big shots arent that bad when your riding it, but he's convinced he don't want anything that loud. Any advice from those with stage 1 with a quieter exhaust would be greatly appreciated. Slip ons, full exhaust systems, whatever you've got that's not stock and not really loud we'd appreciate any and all input.

 

He could always look into the Screaming' Eagle slipons, but they're not much louder than the stock mufflers.
.. and you're right, the Big Shots are nice and mellow at cruising speed.
They only bark when you want them to...

 

Sounds is very subjective. What might be too loud for one person, might be just right for another. His best bet is to go to a local bike night and listen to as many exhausts on bikes similar to his as he can.

 

I was gonna say just stay stock...plenty quiet. Screamin Eagles a close second.

 

Supertrapp Supermeg 2:1 is about as quiet as they come IMO.

 

2:1 reinharts?

 

I'm running stock mufflers with stage one right now. Liking it. Mine are 'pre cat' though.

 

My Rush are mild while crusing, but loud when U get on it.
IMO U need longer pipes if U take long trips. at least to the rear axle or more.

Even though my pipes aren't too bad the noise from the staggered pipes get to me after 7-10 hrs in the saddle per day because the front pipes ends right at my ear.

I love the sound and quality of the Rush pipes and would only change them to longer pipes to get the noise to the rear more.

If I do change out what I have I'll be looking at the Bassini Road Rage ll's 2-1 in the long version really hard. I like the looks of them and they are not as loud as the D&D - FC's.


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I just put on the Rush slipon's with the 2.5 inch baffles. Pretty loud idling, really loud under acceleration, and moderate when cruising.

I would love to try their quieter baffles, because this is borderline too loud.

 

I went from big radius to the fatcat. Huge difference in sound.