"I prefer my skin where it is, not in a wire brush in
Olga's hands at the hospital..."
How accurate a description that is :-P The ONE time I forgot to bring my
gloves............
If you ride for very long in LA traffic with quiet pipes, you'd better be
either riding a racing bike, or plan on being buried...in an envelop.
---------Robert
Dave M. wrote:
Not entirely true. Might I recommend:
1) Spend a day in urban California traffic on a bike with a silent,
stock exhaust
2) Spend another day in CA traffic on the same bike, but with performance pipe
3) Report back.
For the record, I've done this - over several years, SAME bike, same
town, swapping back & forth between pipes (stock exhaust and bolt-on
Yoshimura RS-3 pipe). People *do* hear you even if you're behind them,
at freeway speeds. No, not everyone, but some is better than none
before they whip over into your lane without looking!
Remember - I am NOT talking about a Harley with no mufflers here! I
hate those too! And I agree 1000% on the complete lack of driver
training in the USA. But that's a whole 'nuther rant which I'd rather
not get started on.
And while there's no helmet law here in Spudland, I don't go out of
the driveway without my armored Dainese leather suit, boots, gloves,
and helmet. I prefer my skin where it is, not in a wire brush in
Olga's hands at the hospital...
:)
-dm
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:30:12 -0500
From: John Ervine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Bike rider, loud pipes
That "Loud Pipes Saves Lives" mentality is based in junk science. The only time
you can hear them at highway speeds is when the bike is in front of you, because
the pipes point to the rear of the bike! All it is is pointless noise pollution
thrust upon the general public in the name of saving lives by people who have no
concept of the nature of sound waves or the Doppler Effect.
The real problem is that drivers in cars are never taught driver responsibility
or instructed in the proper operation of their vehicles - much less to be aware
of pedestrians and motorcycles on or near the roadways. Until such education is
required for obtaining a license, all the straight pipes in the world won't save
the average RUB on his Harley from Sally Soccermom's suburban assault
vehicle.
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