You Know Your Exhaust's Too Loud When...

[Lou Girardin]

50 metres. Fucking amateur!

Did I say 50? I really meant 150 metres, with earplugs in and being deaf and with a 747 overhead and Suzanne Paul yelling from the pillion seat.

[Wolf]

Did I say 50? I really meant 150 metres, with earplugs in and being deaf and with a 747 overhead and Suzanne Paul yelling from the pillion seat.

Suzanne Paul? Whew, any thing that can be heard over her... We're not worthy. We're not worthy.

Hehe.

The worst my TS ever got was the day I dropped it and ripped the pipe free of the muffler so the exhaust gases (and noise) were venting out of a short curved pipe affixed to the front of the engine. When I fired it up (of course I stalled it when I dropped it), the noise was physically painful. I rode it up the road and passed under the Whitiora bridge which reflected a lot of the sound back at me from the left and above - it sucked to be me at that moment. Compared with that, all the cracks and leaks that gave the TS its "distinctive" sound were inconsequential.

Looking back, the amount I spent on muffler bandages for that bike I could have bought a decent second hand exhaust from the wreckers. (and missed out having my coffee halfway ready by the time I arrived at my mates' house...)

[strayjuliet]

Geez it all sounds very much like my car at the moment. The trouble is i can't sneak anywhere, not if i take the car that is.