Dr.Linda's Sportster with open drag pipes can set off car alarms. It's great. When we were in school (TAMU), she would ride past the parking garage and set off the alarms on all the little frat boy's beemers. Ahh, good times.
Dr.Linda's Sportster with open drag pipes can set off car alarms. It's great. When we were in school (TAMU), she would ride past the parking garage and set off the alarms on all the little frat boy's beemers. Ahh, good times.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I just moved into this house a month ago. I live on the corner of the main drag through town and a side street. There is a neighbor somewhere down my block (side street) that has a Harley Sportster. He has open pipes. He feels necessary to take off from the stop sign wide open through the first couple gears at 8:00 in the morning.
Idea - Wait at the stop sign. When he stops, step out and shake his hand. Introduce yourself. Ask nicely if he could chill. He might.
<--- Has flowmasters on the daily driver (bought it with them in place). I barely crack the throttle in the neighborhood.
Mine is keeping it's stock exhaust for as long as I own it. Every other rider I've met has told me almost immediately upon hearing it that I need pipes on it. Not gonna happen.
nicksta43 wrote: Mine is keeping it's stock exhaust for as long as I own it. Every other rider I've met has told me almost immediately upon hearing it that I need pipes on it. Not gonna happen.
And thank you for being one of the respectable few. I think eventually I might just turn the 10 into a track bike.......but that'll be way down the road and after I buy an MV. Then it might finally get a pipe. Akrapovics are salty though.
I'm about to the point where I wish aftermarket exhausts, car bike truck and especially Bro-Dozers, were illegal. And yes I have an FMF powercore4 on my WR250R, that's going to get replaced with a stock pipe as soon as I can get exup valve taken out of the one I have sitting on a shelf.
I have stock slip ons on all my bikes, The 1000 has a long tube header breathing through the stock cans. Its pleasing to ride and not obnoxious. I agree with the straight piped cruiser rant. Theres one shiny happy person on a Fatboy that I run into on the way to work that has to constantly rev his bike for some reason. RealMini; Why U mad bruh
My k1200s has a Leo Vince slip on with the baffle out and no catalytic convertor. Sounds great "to me" and no complaints from anyone including my neighbors. This bike is pretty much my DD, so they hear it a lot.
My Speed Triple has the factory option Arrow titanium exhaust..
911 has a GHL
C4 has magnaflows I think
95 Dodge dually with Cummins 4 inch straight pipe (oh berkeley gasp!) but the turbo is a muffler right? I do have a magnaflow muffler for it...just need to install, but not sure how effective it'll be
The baja bug has a tri-mil with a big muffler, but still sounds like ass. It's an ac vw though, so you really can't expect a lot of beautiful noises.
Have lots of other cars and bikes with aftermarket exhausts and the ONLY car I ever had a complaint on was the 03 Mach 1 with SL P loudmouth and yes it was too loud. I planned to swap it to a Borla, then the wife decided she wanted a new Wrangler, so the Mustang got traded.
That being said I do not go around raising hell in neighborhoods, revving at lights for no reason, etc. I try to be respectful of other people and their ears...even the ones in their little boring souless econoboxes.
nicksta43 wrote: Mine is keeping it's stock exhaust for as long as I own it. Every other rider I've met has told me almost immediately upon hearing it that I need pipes on it. Not gonna happen.
Thank you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
yamaha wrote:Grtechguy wrote: on the sport bike side, I have an obnoxiously loud slip on. I hate it.When my friend bought the(now mine) zx10 2 years ago, it came with a boom tube and a D&D shorty......the tube was unbearably loud, the D&D was almost as loud, so he put a stock can on it. At idle it sounds evil and is otherwise pretty quiet. Part of me still wants to sidepipe the e36 so I can lob fireballs at those stereotypical harley owners.....
Remember the Swift's sidepipe? That was fun for about a minute. Not the rhetorical "minute" kids use today but literally about 60 seconds. Then it was just obnoxious.
In reply to Bobzilla:
The door windows were removed from the e36 because it was too loud inside(running open header with a turndown)
ddavidv wrote: Equally bad, in my book, is having to follow these guys while on my metric bike, because every H-D on the road that isn't fuel injected is running gawdawful rich, in some misguided belief it will be faster. Makes my eyes water. It's noteworthy when I get behind one that's NOT reeking of unburnt fuel.
Hadn't thought much about this before. But you are 100% correct.
Around these parts, lots of guys on full dressers cruising up and down the coast. They are obnoxiously oblivious to what they are doing and what is going on around. I regularly get stuck behind some small group of them doing 5 under the limit, completely oblivious that they are holding up traffic behind them. It's one thing to do that in a camper trailer that can't go that fast on the mountain roads and that isn't going to get run over by anything but semi's. But no matter how heavy your Harley is, it still doesn't have a cage.
SWMBO finally comprehended my sentiments about Harley riders one time she was at a gas station. Group of those same road-tripping dressers all stopped and proceeded to park 3-wide by the pump. Not deep. WIDE. She tried to drive past to the exit, but there was no space. Honked to get their attention to move one of their bikes, and they got pissed at her.
NSFW: http://youtu.be/Hi4qVd6E_Ec
Woody wrote: Sometimes, you just need to prove to the world that you are the most badass CPA in the entire subdivision.
I saw the transformation in person the other day. There's a guy that lives about 1/2 mile east of us in a nice suburban ranch style house. 2 car garage, well manicured lawn and a newer econobox dd. I was driving by one day and noticed a harley sitting in the driveway with it's blappity-blap "idle". Out from the garage struts a lanky guy wearing some sort of black head band...bandanna thing, a sleeveless shirt and fingerless gloves. I was roaring with laughter and had to sit at the stop sign in front of his house for a moment or two before I could drive away.
On a related note I was in the local gun shop a few days ago picking up some .22 l.r. for the wife's pistol and noticed a .44 magnum Desert Eagle with a huge scope on it. I turned to the stranger next to me, pointed to the compensation device and said, "Look, it's the Desert Eagle, small wang edition!".
He didn't laugh.
Fingerless gloves sealed the deal
In reply to The_Jed:
Wait, you found .22lr ammo.......
In reply to yamaha:
Yeah. The wife found it posted on the store's facebook or something and asked me to snag some while she was at work. I grabbed the last of 4 100 count boxes. They had boxes of 500... for $65.
Ouch, sad to see gouging is still occurring
On that note, I walked into the most local motorcycle dealer to look at helmet sizing(a harley dealer), and saw nothing but people decked out in HD and Affliction apparrel(affliction earns an instant "Douche" rating from me).....they had only one type of full face helmet(a E36 M3ty one at that), and the rest were those stupid bump caps. I was in there for 20 minutes and didn't have a single person ask if I needed help, and was ignored when I asked. Must have been because I'm not having a midlife crisis or not a CPA.....there were a few old people sitting on bikes making noises though, just like south park episode.
I see the appeal - you get to dress up like a pirate, not just on Halloween, but any time you feel like it, and broadcast a big ol' look at me. 
In reply to oldtin:
ROFL!!!! When I start to see flintlocks being worn, I'll really be concerned. 
nicksta43 wrote: Mine is keeping it's stock exhaust for as long as I own it. Every other rider I've met has told me almost immediately upon hearing it that I need pipes on it. Not gonna happen.
Another hearty thank you. I also bet your one of the 5% of HD riders who has a real helmet not a bandana or a piss pot and probably wear a real jacket as your skin isn't made of Kevlar like most HD bad asses
RealMiniDriver wrote: You guys act like the crotch rocket stunta crowd is berkeleying perfect. I get Yoshi-piped asshats screaming past my house at eleventeen million RPM.Even in Milwaukee, where Harleys are abundant, for every "open piped" HD, there's a screaming douchebag crotch rocket. STFU, already.
I’ve been all over the country, including through Milwaukee and I'd say when it comes to bike's the break down is like this:
75% HD
25% Everything else
Of that 25% everything else I'd say I see:
80% with helmets, 20% without helmets
95% with real / stock exhausts, 5% with something loud and obnoxious. Also when it comes to the loud ones, they aren't too bad at lower rpm, only at high rpm when they are thankfully gone from sight and sound very quickly.
70% ridden in a safe, normal way, 30% going like a bat out of hell (see above for gone quickly though)
99% ridden in single file, 1% passing each other
With the HD's I see:
10% wearing a real helmet, 30% wearing a piss pot, 60% so berkeleying hard arse that they don't need a helmet, the ground needs one to protect itself
25% wearing decent clothing, 75% with Kevlar skin that will grind away the road surface as they slide along laughing at that pillow soft concrete that trembles before them.
10% of them with a normal exhaust, 90% with berkeleying loud pipes blipping, farting and shaking the windows for blocks around. And unlike the far far fewer sports bikes with loud pipes they are a)loud all the berkeleying time and b) accelerate slow enough that you have to put up with it for long enough to grow a decent beard.
50% ridden in a normal safe fashion, 50% ridden like they own the road. Often 2-3 abreast going 0-10mph below the speed limit. This happens in town or out of it. An especially bad case was a group I came across in the Colorado mountains on a twisty road with no passing. There was a huge long line behind said douchbags including me with a trail, a guy with a pop up and a truck. Pull offs were not used because they are too important to have to get out of peoples way. Also if you get within 50' of their rear tire and they notice they go batE36 M3 crazy as if your nudging them along.
I admire HD as a company adept at parting people from large amounts of cash. I hate the effect that owning an HD has on 90% of the owners who suddenly loose are concept of the laws of physics, common decency and any intelligent or socially acceptable behaviors. I'm sure away from their steaming piles of donkey crap they are normal, well-adjusted people, but it's like Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when they step into the garage for a ride.
Adrian_Thompson wrote:nicksta43 wrote: Mine is keeping it's stock exhaust for as long as I own it. Every other rider I've met has told me almost immediately upon hearing it that I need pipes on it. Not gonna happen.Another hearty thank you. I also bet your one of the 5% of HD riders who has a real helmet not a bandana or a piss pot and probably wear a real jacket as your skin isn't made of Kevlar like most HD bad assesRealMiniDriver wrote: You guys act like the crotch rocket stunta crowd is berkeleying perfect. I get Yoshi-piped asshats screaming past my house at eleventeen million RPM.I’ve been all over the country, including through Milwaukee and I'd say when it comes to bike's the break down is like this: 75% HD 25% Everything else Of that 25% everything else I'd say I see: 80% with helmets, 20% without helmets 95% with real / stock exhausts, 5% with something loud and obnoxious. Also when it comes to the loud ones, they aren't too bad at lower rpm, only at high rpm when they are thankfully gone from sight and sound very quickly. 70% ridden in a safe, normal way, 30% going like a bat out of hell (see above for gone quickly though) 99% ridden in single file, 1% passing each other With the HD's I see: 10% wearing a real helmet, 30% wearing a piss pot, 60% so berkeleying hard arse that they don't need a helmet, the ground needs one to protect itself 25% wearing decent clothing, 75% with Kevlar skin that will grind away the road surface as they slide along laughing at that pillow soft concrete that trembles before them. 10% of them with a normal exhaust, 90% with berkeleying loud pipes blipping, farting and shaking the windows for blocks around. And unlike the far far fewer sports bikes with loud pipes they are a)loud all the berkeleying time and b) accelerate slow enough that you have to put up with it for long enough to grow a decent beard. 50% ridden in a normal safe fashion, 50% ridden like they own the road. Often 2-3 abreast going 0-10mph below the speed limit. This happens in town or out of it. An especially bad case was a group I came across in the Colorado mountains on a twisty road with no passing. There was a huge long line behind said douchbags including me with a trail, a guy with a pop up and a truck. Pull offs were not used because they are too important to have to get out of peoples way. Also if you get within 50' of their rear tire and they notice they go batE36 M3 crazy as if your nudging them along. I admire HD as a company adept at parting people from large amounts of cash. I hate the effect that owning an HD has on 90% of the owners who suddenly loose are concept of the laws of physics, common decency and any intelligent or socially acceptable behaviors. I'm sure away from their steaming piles of donkey crap they are normal, well-adjusted people, but it's like Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when they step into the garage for a ride.
Quoted for truth........can we nominate an edited form of this for "Say What" ????
Full face helmet, gloves, good leather boots are always worn. I'm still in need of a good jacket, my leather one doesn't breath at all. Saving pennies for good one.
Quoted for truth........can we nominate an edited form of this for "Say What" ????
AMEN!
In reply to nicksta43:
I'm in the same boat, I am saving for a good riding jacket(armored), boots, and gloves. Those are all on my xmas wants list if I don't happen to buy them for myself by then. After the bar shake I got sunday, I also need a steering damper......
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