My new Pipes......

[Mitch]

Just spent all day at a bike Rally for Bike Week... Long effin day, good and bad, mostly bad. I thing I need to install my baffles.

[wyomincowboy]

get too loud?? or was the bike not runnin right

[Mitch]

Too loud. The bike runs great. It is tuned for the baffles removed on these particular pipes. I may just ride with an ear plug in my right ear...

[wyomincowboy]

no such thing as too loud.   lol

[Mitch]

no such thing as too loud.   lol

So I have heard, but when you can't hear out of your right ear after a 60 mile ride, and you go to bed with a headache, and wake up 10 hours later with the same headache, then it is too loud. I was fully hydrated and sober when I went to bed.

[wyomincowboy]

ok that may be too loud then.

[Mitch]

I need to check my db level. The law is 84 max. I think I am about 120-130. I set off car alarms at idle

[wyomincowboy]

so does my hemi.   i think it idles at 90 or so, possibly 100

[mayfair]

I wear a bandanna over my ears when I ride. No such thing as too loud!

[kenz]

If its to loud, you're to old.....   

I know whenever I rode 2 abreast with someone else, they always made me ride the shoulder 'cause the noise was to much.    I'm thinking that the reason the noise seems so loud is because they turn down towards the pavement, and you are hearing the echo off the road. With my 2" straight pipes I could hardly hear them myself.

[cntryby]

Frikken sawheeeetttt ride man!!!

I always ride with ear plugs, just for wind noise. My bikes are all quite but I still use plugs... or my ear buds for some tunes. 

[Mitch]

On longer rides I ride with my iPod or my droid streaming Pandora, but just locally I don't use anything. The wind noise doesn't bother me much. It used to, but you get used to it after a couple thousand miles.

[cntryby]

Extended exposure to those db levels WILL cause permanent hearing loss.

Short rides to the store or something... I don't worry about it. But if I'm gonna be on the bike for more than 20 min or so... I wear'm. To many old riders I know say'n... "whaaa?"

[Mitch]

I already say that from being to exposed to the loudest piece of equipment in the army inventory for 6 years.

[cntryby]

I already say that from being to exposed to the loudest piece of equipment in the army inventory for 6 years.

That'll do it...

Whaaa?

I live 25 miles from Ft Benning & they still rattle our windows.