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Originally Posted by 0313H3
That's damn funny. You are definitely a man with opinions, I 'm glad you are not King.
Having been riding and wrenching bikes for decades, I'm not into the recent "chopper chimp" assless chaps look (I blame that ridiculous American Chopper crap). I've ridden many different bikes, from Suzuki R/M's, to Suzuki 1000 GSX and an R1. I've had several cruisers also, but now that I'm middle aged  (40 next month), I have mellowed out now. I like my rigid framed all black badass. I put two step Martin Brothers Medustas pipes on my 107" S&S. They are drag pipes but certainly not straight.
I've dropped several bikes in my life, enough that I don't want to do that anymore. The last time it happened was about two years ago, when a 17 year old girl talking on her cell phone made a left hand turn out of a parking lot, directly into my path. She left me 30 feet to react at 40 mph. She said she didn't see me. Maybe if she would have heard me, I could have avoided that six months off of work and the damaged disks in my back, and all that nasty blood.
To each their own I say, I may occasionally burp the throttle at stop lights, but I also love the sound of an old Big block or a modern LS also. Let em rip, just don't endanger others, and I won't get too excited. |
Goin' down is NOT fun! Loud pipes wouldn't have saved you. They're particularly noisy and bothersome to only people next to them at a stop light or people out in their yard enjoying the day. Due to the doppler effect, windows rolled up, inattentiveness due to cell phones and my other nemesis boom boom stereos, the loud pipes won't help at all.
So, they hurt horsepower and sound bad.