aceofspades im behind u all the way!!! i leave at 530 am and im running drags i only idle about 30 sec but the whole time there aimed at my neighbor who cant seem to take care of her property( i.e. taking trash out to curb, mowing grass, etc) even worse shes living there on the taxpayers dime. i give her a full blast whenever i leave getting into the motor hard.

 

I have drags with lollipops installed. I move my bike out of the carport and start her. Run it for a few seconds and take off slowly. No complaints yet.

 

Stick a sock in itWhen my neighbors train their dogs to not bark all night and in the wee hours of the morning. Then I will worry about how loud my pipes are. I let it warm up and leave, don't rev it or anything, but I am also not worried about it.

 

That all depends on how freekin COLD is it. Granted it's certainly not cold right now, but when I start my bike in 20 degree temps, she's gotta have some time to warm up! If not, it will just stall out.

 

Yea, we all grow up eventually!!!

I don't leave til 830 for work now, so don't worry so much about the pipes as everybody is either already gone, or at least awake. Last year, when I had to be in at 6 am, I would roll the bike out into the street before firing it up. Nobody ever complained, and I went out of my way to keep it that way.

 

It all depends on where I have my bike parked. I don't have a garage, unless you consider by basement my garage and my sliding glassdoor the garage door. So I either have to parkit on the roadright in front of my house orpull itout of the basementwhenever Itake it.I leave for work between 6 or 6:30 AM. All my neighbors are cool with me about the echoeing coming out of the Bassani's cause I tend to start it and leave ASAP (letting the choke slide in by itself as I ride)if I'm parked on the road.Italso helpsthat I forewarn them by putting the bike out on the road with the cover on it, so they know I'm taking it in the morning. Heck, one neighbor, (the one that gets all of the echo from when I pull out of the basement in the mornings), says he uses the start up of my bike and me leaving as his alarm clock. If I have to leave directly from the basement, I need to pull the bike out, start it, and let it warm up a bit due to having to ride up hill through wet/dewey grass. I'll be as courteous as possible....remember, treat others as you would want to be treated.

 

I figure it this way, I'm not nearly as loud and obnoxious as my neighbor with the texas ironhorse slammer with the 111 S&S and rhinharts or his roommate's springer with the pythons. I am courteous as I live at the dead end of the street but I do let mine warm up.

 

I have V&H Pies on my Nightster and leave between 4:45 and 6 depending on how long it takes me to get up. LOL! I start it in the garage with the pipes facing the house, warm it up, and just cruise nice and easy down the street. I have asked my neighbors and they have all said that they don't even hear me.

Trae

 

4 out of 6 of my neighbors are riders so I don't worry about. Sorry that doesn't really help you any, but it helps me. [8D]

 

Open the windows to your house, blast your home stereo to drown out the noise of your bike so your neigbors will blame your loud stereo and not your bike.