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1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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jbird7262
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Originally posted by 8ball View PostPeople who think that loud pipes make you more noticed don't have an understanding how sound works. The pipes face the wrong way. Higher frequency sounds are directional. High revving, and particularly 4 cyl bikes have higher frequencies. Maybe a Harley can be heard to an extent from ahead, but even a Harley is a higher freq than would be considered low freq. But if you have ever driven on a Los Angeles freeway, you know that you typically do not hear a motorcycle until it is right on you.....even if it has an un-godly loud pipe. I have a friend that ran an open pipe on his R6 for a while. I could not ride behind him. In front of him, no problem didn't even bother me. Now, staying ahead of him was an issue, but for an entirely different reason.
I am not against after market performance exhausts, but the reason is for performance, not some safety myth.
"If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing could do..." --PJ Pijanka
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Originally posted by gordinho80 View PostJust about everyone on here hates me for "hacking up" my 83 GS1100G... but I love how it looks! I bought the bike and I did what I wanted to do to it. Is it a perfect example of a Cafe Racer? No, and it likely never will be. But I appreciate the way it looks now a million times over how it looked stock. Hate on me if you want.
I'm not finished... more changes coming soon!
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Originally posted by gordinho80 View PostJust about everyone on here hates me for "hacking up" my 83 GS1100G... but I love how it looks!
1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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Originally posted by G-3 View PostNo disrespect but you guys are full of it, you can hear a loud Harley or a rocket coming up behind you on the high way, if you no how to drive you look around to see where it is! If that hasn't happened to you its time for hearing aids!"Men will never be free until Mark learns to do The Twist."
-Denis D'shaker
79 GS750N
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Originally posted by bccap View PostMaybe they would if they had their own section where they weren't being judged by people such as yourself. The Cafe is as an art and culture form just as the Hot Rod is.........Dogma
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O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you! - David
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Sagan
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'80 GS850 GLT
'80 GS1000 GT
'01 ZRX1200R
How to get a "What's New" feed without the Vortex, and without permanently quitting the Vortex
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(R), (M - medical)
Originally posted by Charlie G View PostHacking up G's. I take this as a family insult. At least call the Mohel?
cG1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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Originally posted by G-3 View PostNo disrespect but you guys are full of it, you can hear a loud Harley or a rocket coming up behind you on the high way, if you no how to drive you look around to see where it is! If that hasn't happened to you its time for hearing aids!
It doesn't work. Most drivers are deaf even more than they are blind. They just don't care about you or your noisy piece of crap. Most drivers don't know how to drive, and couldn't be bothered to learn. It just doesn't do any good to **** off every single driver on the road. It's a retarded concept, spread widely as an excuse for those who want to have no mufflers, and only believed by retarded people who can't ride at all.
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jbird7262
@ G-3, personaly I don't hear **** with a Vance/Hines roaring over 6000rpms, just wind, no harleys,no rockets just me hunched over those clubmans.
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