If loud pipes save lives imagine what learning to ride the thing would do.
Most of the loud pipes crew are the same ones taking left hand turns at 1 mph needing 3
If loud pipes scare you to that extent then I suggest you bring your playdough to keep you all comfy and safe or better yet stay off the roads if a loud noise can cause such a reaction.I don't know about others, but when I'm in a car and a loud bike comes up on me, it's not only startling, but it scares me almost to the point of jerking the steering wheel. In my opinion, that's not a life saving endeavor for the biker.
That true....with an asterisk. 1) Cool is in the ear(s) of the beholder. 2) True HP gains with a true performance exhaust usually require re-jet for carbs, or re-tune of the ECU. Slip-ons can change the note, but only have minimal HP gains; if any. I have one son in the "louder the better" camp, while the other one the "quiet OE" camp.Loud pipes sound cool and create more hp. That’s all they are for.
typically the tickets given out around here to dirt bikers are for lack of spark arrestors. Loud off road pipes rarely have them.It was very annoying camping at Glacier National Park listening to the Harley riders go by. Forest rangers give out tickets around these parts for loud dirt bikers. Somehow it’s ok to run straight pipes in National Parks though.
I could care less if someone rides without a bucket. They want to be organ donors fine by me as long as I don't have to pay the hospital bill.Up here in Canada the guys who say "Loud Pipes Save Lives" are the same clowns who lobby government to allow them to ride without helmets!
unless you're talking about ATV users, every province has a helmet law. Alberta is no longer helmet free.Up here in good ole Kanada we will all pay for fuk sticks that end up hospitalized because they didn’t wear a skid lid.
Yep...distracted driving, and the simple act of people using cars as an appliance (point a to b, no real feel or finess involved) is the biggest thing.Whilst loud pipes may not save riders lives, I find the average phone immersed pedestrian soon realises that you are there once you blip your throttle, oh the fun I had when I lived in the UK and had to ride into London, the numpties that want to play chicken with the flashing green man while I was riding a very loud V-Twin 1600......... nowI go for the most quiet pipes I can find.