Stock pipes bike was a dog
i have nad straight and did not care for them
my se 2's are a little louder than i want but i am herd
had several close calls with stock Pensacola they Do Not know howe to drive
we have had several GW's knocked over in last couple years i owne a wrecker and get them

 

If I wanted a Gold Wing then I would have bought a Gold Wing.
The louder pipes do not save lives as everyone thinks. Then Gold Wing Drivers would be dropping like flys.

 

"Then Gold Wing Drivers would be dropping like flys."

They do that anyway, as soon as their pacemaker stops working!

 

Loud pipes are for the most part just, LOUD PIPES. It's more about the "look at me" factor, than anything to do with safety. Anyway, I think in the near future , new laws will be written and enforced that will be killing the loud pipe business, and i'm not really for that either............. JMHO

 

My use of loud pipes had nothing to do with safety.
My use of loud pipes had nothing to do with "look-at-me".

It's all about performance. Dam shame this narrowminded article left out such a big percentage of riders. Kind of insulting.





.

 

I've seen them scatter away from me before, more than once.
Coincidence? Maybe. But they looked like they were scared. I'm okay with scaring them. But as I said earlier, not the reason I run the pipes.

 

I have seen a lot of guys with "Loud pipes save lives" patches on their Sunday riding vests.

Not a single one of them was wearing an armored jacket, pants, gauntlets, boots, and full face helmet when they got back on the bike. Most of them are drinking at least a beer or two before riding as well. I have yet to see a dude on a Deluxe with fishtails wearing day-glo yellow either, and the guys with Short Shots don't have headlight modulators installed either. They don't really care at all about "safety".

In your car, with the stereo on, and the windows up, you're not going to hear the pipes until it's too late. I suppose they might help with people making left turns in front of you, but generally I don't buy it. I think it's an argument made up by the guys who blip their throttles for no good reason in parking lots, begging for attention, but don't want to admit that attention is what they seek.

 

Whatever dude! Get on interstate 95 in lower Fairfield county CT. rush hour traffic.

Then tell me that loud pipes aren't a safety feature.

 

Thats my reason more HP

 

Let's see here... stock MoCo pipes are abysmal. They look like ****, sound like ****, and perform like ****. I have a denim black Bones with black V&H Shorties. It runs better, it definitely sounds better, and looks a lot better.

I still find myself dodging idiots everytime I ride. The way I see it, if a person does a lane change, they cut me off because they are ahead of me. If they pull out in front of me at an intersection, it's obvious they are in front of me. The sound of my pipes come straight out behind me. I don't see the merit in the loud pipes save lives argument. I'm sure there are several incidents everyday that are avoided due to the loud pipes, but let's call it what it is, or what it should be. Freedom of choice.

What gets me is that people bitch about loud pipes on bikes, yet we never hear about potential legislation about quieting things that are worse. Ever try to talk on your cell phone at a stop light behind a bus? A garbage truck? The dump truck that just picked up a load at the construction site down the street? These things have much higher DB levels than my bike, and no, I don't use a cell phone when I drive my pickup. It just seems to me that the people who seem to be most annoyed by my bike are the phuktards in their cars yakking on cell phones. Imagine that.