I probably already know the answer to this. 
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.
It's starting to bug the crap out of me.
Owning Harley = WOT because 700lb motorcycle with 80hp.
The loud pipe thing I'm not sure. My favorite is when someone has to keep bliping the throttle at a light on their fuel injected lectra glide because fouled plugs or something.
Small penis, deaf ears, and no brain matter between the ears.
hey ... loud pipes save lives .... don't ya know ?
and with 80hp that 2 blocks takes a freaking week
I ride with a guy who has a 1977 Harley (bunch of letters go here) and it's really unique.
It's stock, there's no skulls or tassels and it has a nice exhaust sound.
It's not all Harley riders, just the douchebags that need the screamin' eagle pipes to prove how manly their bike is.
I doesn't go fast or handle well so it had better be loud.
It's also the WOT thing. A guy in my neighbourhood has loud pipes but you hardly ever hear him coming or going because, evidently, he doesn't feel like pissing anyone off.
It depends if you buy a bike because you enjoy the experience, or if you buy a bike to try to show off for the sake of attention from everyone else.
Yup, it's basically an Attention Whore Detection Device.
I've got a guy that goes by my house with his open pipes all throughout the summer at 6:10am every workday. It's so hard resisting the urge to wait for him and stick a shovel handle in his spokes.
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.
It's a shame...they aren't terrible bikes, but the LOOK AT ME crowd has completely ruined them for the rest of us.
Sometimes, you just need to prove to the world that you are the most badass CPA in the entire subdivision.
open pipes (at WOT) make me understand "Easy Rider" ... in a way the producers never intended 
My brother used to live a block or two off of A1A in Daytona. He said for Bike Week no one slept due to all the open piped bikes in town.
I used to ride Buell's. We had some cross over from the unmuffled pipe crowd due to Buell's using Sportster motors at the time. We tended to ride a bit faster so guys quickly picked up on the benefits of stealth when you didn't want the attention of law enforcement. Then the stock pipes would find their way back on the bike to avoid unwanted attention. The stock pipes were much quieter and the motor made a 100hp with them on.
nocones wrote: Owning Harley = WOT because 700lb motorcycle with 80hp. The loud pipe thing I'm not sure. My favorite is when someone has to keep bliping the throttle at a light on their fuel injected lectra glide because fouled plugs or something.
FYI, the 883 Sportster puts about 38hp to the rear wheel. Later ones with the more aggressive cam put around 42. Not sure about the 1200.
I have a guy that goes by my house with this berkeleying riced out civic, with no muffler, wide open, with all 120HP screaming........oh wait wrong thread.
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.
And then theres the straight pipe mopeds. Loud, and they take forever to get past your house.
At least with the sportbike guys you know that they will only be riding by your house a few times before they wad it up.
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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.
And most sportbikes around here have pretty quiet exhaust......hell, I passed my friend with the zx10 on saturday at WOT and he claimed he only heard the noise from my brakes and chain. Even with E36 M3ty aftermarket cans, they aren't as loud as what this thread is talking about.
EVERY, I repeat, EVERY Harley owner in my area has straight pipes......and they are much much more of the problem. Oddly enough, they seem to be involved in more fatal accidents too.....
Open pipes are like giant chrome wheels and smoke stacks. Small penis men looking for attention.
RealMiniDriver wrote: You guys act like the crotch rocket stunta crowd is berkeleying perfect. .
Sportbikes weren't mentioned in any of the previous posts.
on the sport bike side, I have an obnoxiously loud slip on. I hate it.
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.
I'd like to re-iterate the OP's post, but just with "motorcycle" in place of "Harley."
And i see cars getting tickets for loud exhausts. Yeah, ok.
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.....
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