Personal opinion: loud pipes work in certain situations - and are a
deterrant to animals more than humans.
Loud pipes work better where you have something for the sound to
bounce off of - redirecting it ahead of the bike.
-Joey
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:49 PM, paul annen <[email protected]> wrote:
> through more reading im finding that louder pipes realy dont help... i
> wonder if there have been any scientific studies that loud pipes save lives
> or not?
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:16 PM, sfox618 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> This morning I was waiting to turn right onto another street - I had
>> one car in front of me. Coming down the street I was waiting to turn
>> onto was a Harley, that I see a lot. It has really load pipes. The
>> car in front of me pulled out in-front of him. It was close and the
>> guy in the box (car) in front of me clearly didn't see or hear the
>> Harley. He did hear his stock horn.....
>>
>> I'm not a fan of load pipes and in this instance they really didn't
>> make a difference.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On Sep 13, 9:55 am, yeti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > i wrote this out on facebook.. please follow the link, read and
>> > comment...
>> >
>> > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&¬e_id=126136737437482#!/n...
>> >
>> > for those without facebook...
>> >
>> > so, this morning i got a little scared on my way to work. driving
>> > through daytona (the motorcycle capital of the world!!!) and a guy in
>> > a car decided to merge right into me. now this isent big news, anybody
>> > that has driven a bike for any amount of time has had the chance to
>> > share a lane with a car. but today was different, i had krissie on the
>> > back and that makes me drive more carefully, but on top of that i
>> > dident see the guy start to come over. i was passing him in the left
>> > lane and right when i was at the drivers window he was so close i
>> > could smell hes morning coffee through the glass. i was able to find
>> > my horn button quickly (not an easy task in a rush on the wing) and he
>> > pulled back over in a rush. but not before i could react and get my
>> > foot out...
>> >
>> > my point is that i love my wing, but i cant help thinking that if i
>> > were on a louder bike (like an HD) he might have head me and not tried
>> > to merge right then. on the other hand why should i sacrifice my
>> > comfort (mostly talking hearing here) by driving a noise machine just
>> > to get other motorists to pay attention like there supposed to
>> > anyway.. guess it goes back to what one of my friends keeps saying "i
>> > would rather be wrong and alive then dead and right"
>>
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