Wow, wrong 4 word phrase!
tl:dr, Well, to each their own. Thanks for your opinion, didn't mean to offend.
Hey man, sorry if I pee'd in your cereal with that phrase, it was just an off-the-cuff remark about the new exhaust. Not that I need to self-justify or anything but I'll do it, just to help myself sleep a little better at night. I own three bikes, one of them a Harley actually (with V&H pipes)! All three of my bikes are stupid loud (the Ducati has a dry clutch so it always sounds loud and broken). I also live in a neighborhood with very nice families. So generally, I don't leave early or come home late, I push my bikes out to the end of my street before I start them if I leave anywhere between 7:30-8:30am, and with the way my neighborhood is set up, I can cut the engine off and coast all the way up into my driveway.
I understand a lot of people's gripes with obnoxious squids with their loud ass pipes and over-revving and all that, but I can also see how a loud bike draws attention while on the road. I sit in heavy VA/MD traffic for 2 hours everyday/5 days a week. Sometimes I ride in as well. So as a cage-jockey I've experienced enough times when I could hear a bike coming (most of the time, splitting) so that I can nudge my car slightly over to give them space. And as a rider, I've had enough people with cell phones glued to their hands almost cut me off that I was glad a loud pipe was heard (because they're sure as poop ain't looking). And yes, no amount of bright reflective gear will help you if the other drivers aren't even looking, but they might be able to hear.
First off, awesome forum handle! Secondly, man those MD drivers are something else! Yeah, our area is a bit dicey to ride motorcycles in. The suburbs and further out away from the city has some amazing country roads, but the metro area can be the wild west. I've had people merge into my lane, look up and noticed me, and then honk at me for taking up their lane?! Like, come the F on.
That's crazy tempting, a new grind will have to go on the wish list. Thanks for the link!
tl:dr, Well, to each their own. Thanks for your opinion, didn't mean to offend.
Hey man, sorry if I pee'd in your cereal with that phrase, it was just an off-the-cuff remark about the new exhaust. Not that I need to self-justify or anything but I'll do it, just to help myself sleep a little better at night. I own three bikes, one of them a Harley actually (with V&H pipes)! All three of my bikes are stupid loud (the Ducati has a dry clutch so it always sounds loud and broken). I also live in a neighborhood with very nice families. So generally, I don't leave early or come home late, I push my bikes out to the end of my street before I start them if I leave anywhere between 7:30-8:30am, and with the way my neighborhood is set up, I can cut the engine off and coast all the way up into my driveway.
I understand a lot of people's gripes with obnoxious squids with their loud ass pipes and over-revving and all that, but I can also see how a loud bike draws attention while on the road. I sit in heavy VA/MD traffic for 2 hours everyday/5 days a week. Sometimes I ride in as well. So as a cage-jockey I've experienced enough times when I could hear a bike coming (most of the time, splitting) so that I can nudge my car slightly over to give them space. And as a rider, I've had enough people with cell phones glued to their hands almost cut me off that I was glad a loud pipe was heard (because they're sure as poop ain't looking). And yes, no amount of bright reflective gear will help you if the other drivers aren't even looking, but they might be able to hear.
Couple things:
-Loud pipe **MIGHT** save one's life. It's true ,out our way ,(Just noticed location).
I've been riding on 95N, in "faster" left lane, had a lady just change lanes right at me once.
I just rolled all the way onto shoulder,
slowed and let her get passed , cut back onto actual highway...(Then lane split on her, not out of spite though).
That sort of thing is just "normal driving" here.
Didn't get mad or anything because she just didn't see (or hear) that bike.
It's just common.
The WORST by far though is a little north in Montgomery county.
It's as if (is actually) the entire place was designed specifically for just arrived foreign born people to work, go home, pay some taxes ,send some money home and do absolutely nothing else or care about anything else including learning to drive besides enough to somehow get to work and back home.
-"Non-riders view..." Non riders can eat a ....
Unless it's me trying to sleep. Then a WoooM weeeeee RRRRREEEEE! followed by , "KaBOOM!" has me laughing.
Then I think, "Crap, it's so late maybe nobody will help the guy"
Then I went to look but by then there's already a cop car shining spot light into woods talking into loud speaker:,"IF your there you need to come out right away" Because the guy took off after smashing his GSXR into a crater in back of funny looking small SUV that decided to change lanes , just for heck of it right when the poor guy (returning from closing time at bar probably because 2AM) nailed throttle without enough experience to know better...
Cool project BTW!
This type engine is cool loud when a loud Harley drives by in neighborhood for example anyway. Makes their bike sound like a really loud fart comparitively, the four cylinder w/ loud pipe sounds like a killer IMO...always funny to happen. Never gets old.
I'm ranting too too much, Goodnight!
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-Loud pipe **MIGHT** save one's life. It's true ,out our way ,(Just noticed location).
I've been riding on 95N, in "faster" left lane, had a lady just change lanes right at me once.
I just rolled all the way onto shoulder,
slowed and let her get passed , cut back onto actual highway...(Then lane split on her, not out of spite though).
That sort of thing is just "normal driving" here.
Didn't get mad or anything because she just didn't see (or hear) that bike.
It's just common.
The WORST by far though is a little north in Montgomery county.
It's as if (is actually) the entire place was designed specifically for just arrived foreign born people to work, go home, pay some taxes ,send some money home and do absolutely nothing else or care about anything else including learning to drive besides enough to somehow get to work and back home.
-"Non-riders view..." Non riders can eat a ....
Unless it's me trying to sleep. Then a WoooM weeeeee RRRRREEEEE! followed by , "KaBOOM!" has me laughing.
Then I think, "Crap, it's so late maybe nobody will help the guy"
Then I went to look but by then there's already a cop car shining spot light into woods talking into loud speaker:,"IF your there you need to come out right away" Because the guy took off after smashing his GSXR into a crater in back of funny looking small SUV that decided to change lanes , just for heck of it right when the poor guy (returning from closing time at bar probably because 2AM) nailed throttle without enough experience to know better...
Cool project BTW!
This type engine is cool loud when a loud Harley drives by in neighborhood for example anyway. Makes their bike sound like a really loud fart comparitively, the four cylinder w/ loud pipe sounds like a killer IMO...always funny to happen. Never gets old.
I'm ranting too too much, Goodnight!
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That's crazy tempting, a new grind will have to go on the wish list. Thanks for the link!
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