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

[vifferman]

1. You have to coast with the clutch in, whenever you see anything that looks remotely like a policeman.
2. Your progress down the road is heralded by a symphony (or is that, cacophany?) of car alarms going off.
3. Dogs run away, whimpering, tails between their legs.
4. Everyone turns to see what's coming down the road.
5. There's a spate of "unexplained accidents", involving cars running into each other, and the drivers report, "Everything suddenly went blank for a few seconds."
6. Even though it's raining, you stay dry, due to the sonic bubble around your bike.
7. Your fillings vibrate at 7000 RPM.
8. The engine misfires, due to cavitation in the fuel lines.
9. When you arrive at work, people ask, "Are you OK?", because of the evil grin on your face.
10. Your partner suspects you are having an affair, because you look like have a naughty secret.

[JohnBoy]

my favourite saying when i brought my new exhaust was "loud pipes save lives"..... lets just say i feel very safe on my zed!

[The Tazman]

Nice one Vifferman

Volume and the note are good things I say. It hekps the cagers know you are there.

[Riff Raff]

1. Your progress down the road is heralded by a symphony (or is that, cacophany?) of car alarms going off.

That would be Loose Bruce - his neighbours must really love him!

[Lou Girardin]

How do you know this Viffer? I thought VFR's emitted less noise than a sodomised sparrows fart.

[badlieutenant]

sounds like viffer has done the same as me. throw out stock and put something on that lets you hear the vfour. Improves performance heaps.

[vifferman]

How do you know this Viffer? I thought VFR's emitted less noise than a sodomised sparrows fart.

Actually, some of the tests I've read of the VFR800 said they thought the muffler was a bit loud. :spudwhat:
However, mine's equipped with a Satantune high-mount, to show off the single-sided swingarm/wheel. The Satantunes come with a "spud" (zorst restrictor) held in by an allen key. I've got two (2) for mine - one which imbues the bike with Stealth characteristics (well, it would, if the cam gear whine wasn't so friggin' loud), and one which has a "NaughtyButNice" flavour: loudish, but not annoying or offensive. The last coupla days, I've been in Evil mode (no spud). To be honest, 1, 2, 4 and maybe 10 (this one's untested) are actually true, which is why I started this silly thread. I'll probably put the spud back in at lunchtime, as I've found after a while I get paranoid about all the attention (and possible attention), and the 7K rpm wail makes me ride too aggressively. And I don't want my ears to bleed (the invisible point 11 on the list).

[marty]

go the yoshis on the TL.....

[vifferman]

sounds like viffer has done the same as me. throw out stock and put something on that lets you hear the vfour. Improves performance heaps.

Nah, it was on there when I bought it. Tests I've read indicate that the Staintune adds only 2 HP at most, but I've noticed that the bike definitely notices the difference between the three modes (easily re-tuned for by forcing the ECU to reset). The high-mount also has different characterisitics to the low-mount, as it is a slightly smaller canister, and has a longer connection pipe.

[vifferman]

go the yoshis on the TL.....

Yeah.
Love the sound of decent zorsts on a big V-twin (I'm not talking about HDs here). The VTR had vandalised OEM mufflers, and they were REALLY loud (until I had some spuds made) and didn't sound too good.
The best has to be a 916/996/998 with Termignonis.

[marty]

rode a K4 viffer with under seat carbon yoshis a couple of weeks back - the booming thru the seat was phenominal! could still hear the whine from the front though...

also rode a 'busa with tri-oval single yoshi. holy shit! no hiding that one in the shadows - especially at 10000rpm!

[chickenfunkstar]

11. People take a step or two back when you start the bike.
12. Random person walking along the road dives into the ditch when you're about 50m away.

[James Deuce]

Mooch and I used to love doing laps of the Martinborough square when I had the TRX with practically no baffles. We used to point and laugh as more expensive cars indicators blinked because of course over the roar of the 748 with Arrows, and the TRX we couldn't hear the alarms going off. Marvellous stuff.

[Wolf]

1. You have to coast with the clutch in, whenever you see anything that looks remotely like a policeman.
2. Your progress down the road is heralded by a symphony (or is that, cacophany?) of car alarms going off.
3. Dogs run away, whimpering, tails between their legs.
4. Everyone turns to see what's coming down the road.
5. There's a spate of "unexplained accidents", involving cars running into each other, and the drivers report, "Everything suddenly went blank for a few seconds."
6. Even though it's raining, you stay dry, due to the sonic bubble around your bike.
7. Your fillings vibrate at 7000 RPM.
8. The engine misfires, due to cavitation in the fuel lines.
9. When you arrive at work, people ask, "Are you OK?", because of the evil grin on your face.
10. Your partner suspects you are having an affair, because you look like have a naughty secret.

12*: When you pop in to a friend's house for a surprise visit and your coffee is ready before you shut the engine down.

*Bearing in mind Vifferman's "invisible number 11"

[Wolf]

12*: When you pop in to a friend's house for a surprise visit and your coffee is ready before you shut the engine down.

And I'm not quite making that up - My friends used to at least have the jug on by the time I rolled up on the TS125 - they reckoned they could hear me several streets away.