Targeting bike with loud exhausts

[Toaster]

What's this I hear (in true hearsay form of course) from those in blue that Harleys with straight-throughs (and anything else on 2 wheels that is "too loud") are being targeted for being too loud.

Thanks to years of media attention to and the noisy misbehaviour of idiot tossers in poofy little wet pants jap cars with blow dryers for exhausts that they take the noise issue out on us bikers.

Bikes SHOULD be loud. Loud and beautiful beasts of all makes and models as long as it has two wheels!

[MadDuck]

Bikes SHOULD be loud.

Hell yeah! And my new pipes sound sooooo sweet.

Took the last ones off as they were setting car alarms off and that wasnt too good for the neighbours or my ears

[AllanB]

Ah crap here we go

Personally I like a nice deep tone - not loud enough to piss off your neighbour, but just enough to hear when you are spinning around the hills.

And personally one of the shittiest bike sounds is a HD with open drag pipes. NOTE I said OPEN ie no baffles - just a vacuum cleaner hose.

Another of the nice sounding bikes is a HD with a set of modest deep sounding pipes - sweet - a nice rumble that does not assault the ears and sound like it needs a bloody good tune.

And Ducatis - hmmm nice

A nice inline 4 with a mellow baffled pipe sounds powerful.

Triumph triples - now there is a sound to behold.

[jimbo600]

well my old K6 gsxr was pretty damn loud. But I kept the noise down in built up areas and in traffic. Never got stopped. I'd burble thought towns in 5th in order to keep the peace. Never had anyone complain either. Had many compliments but.

[R6_kid:Me]

Kiss goodbye to your GSXR750k6/7 then, there are a number of RACETRACKS in the UK where they are deemed 'too loud', even with standard exhausts, and the tests are almost identical to the ones that are set to be used here.

[Kwakajack]

I am the same, full Arrow race exhaust on my 98 Kawasaki ZX6R, rev her hard and she'll scream nicely, but potter about town a gear higher than normal and the noise isn't much above stock. In saying that, its only as quiet as my wrist lets her be . . .

[Gremlin]

I know its a cruiser thread, but I voted anyway, the racefit growler should beat just about anything else on the road anyway.

No warnings, haven't been spoken to. However, currently, its lucky to see the light of day three to four times a month, and if I have removed the baffle, I scuttle into the country side asap, so I have less chance of upsetting the city

[terbang]

Vee twins (not the split singles) sound bloody awesome with a rowdy pipe. So does a howling four.

[vifferman]

Yerp.
But there are too many bikes where the object is just to say, "LOOK AT ME!! I have a very noisy bike to make up for my very tiny penis!"
Drag pipes on Harleys (or other crusiers) sound like poo - they're not tuned, just noisy.
I'd imagine almost all of the targeting of noisy bikes has been brought about by the seemingly mandatory fitting (and, incredibly, the warranting!) of overly loud, obnoxious pipes to crusiers. They sound very like a tractor that the exhaust's fallen off.
So we all suffer restrictions for the selfishness of the few.

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Phew!! That feels better...

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Iv'e got standard looking screaming eagle pipes on the Harley, they have a very modest baffle that just rumbles away as you potter around town but if you give her a handful you get a satisfying V twin roar!*#? The straight through pipes are too loud and intrusive. There is a difference between attracting attention and 'attracting attention'!!

[Toaster]

I bought slip ons for the bike as it was cheaper than buying a whole new system after the crash. Here I was thinking it would only make it a little more "rumbly" ... Geez.... started her up and.... boy I'm so gonna get busted!

[Fatjim]

Kiss goodbye to your GSXR750k6/7 then, there are a number of RACETRACKS in the UK where they are deemed 'too loud', even with standard exhausts, and the tests are almost identical to the ones that are set to be used here.

Yeah, but Jimbos wasn't stock. But Fark it was great.

I too hate the sound of HD's. Never really heard one that sounds nice. They just sound like a poorly designed motor trying real hard to play cool. I've had better sound shits.

[Qkchk:Me]

Drag pipes on Harleys (or other crusiers) sound like poo - they're not tuned, just noisy.

Meh................?

I too hate the sound of HD's. Never really heard one that sounds nice. They just sound like a poorly designed motor trying real hard to play cool. I've had better sound shits.

[MSTRS:Me]

Kiss goodbye to your GSXR750k6/7 then, there are a number of RACETRACKS in the UK where they are deemed 'too loud', even with standard exhausts, and the tests are almost identical to the ones that are set to be used here.

Under 100dB on a motorcycle is the (new) rule. Do you fully understand just how loud that is? There's not many that will go over that.
My 750 Srad with it's Yoshi TRS is only 87dB at the required revs

[Gremlin]

Under 100dB on a motorcycle is the (new) rule. Do you fully understand just how loud that is? There's not many that will go over that.

Fact: stock, gixxers are failing at trackdays in the UK. They have varying limits, from track to track, yes, but stock bikes are still not passing. If I remember correctly, some of the gixxers are coming out stamped 102db.

As for going over that, I'm quite sure its a small hurdle for me, and while most say it sounds awesome, yes, it does create a whole new level of loud (to the point that night rides playing with boy racers require the baffle in, otherwise we would be easy pickings). Pics in the link in sig, if you aren't familiar with Racefit.