I can’t afford entire exhaust system right now but I’d like to know if the slip on can be just as loud I’m not worried about performance right now I live in Las Vegas and people drive like maniacs so I want them to know that I’m there can someone suggest a good slip on or alternative to besides having a full exhaust system to slip on do the job ?
Loud for a reason
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Welcome.....
The term loud pipes save lives is a fallacy......the exhaust is behind you and a motorcycle is fast...by the time someone hears your exhaust, you are already either in dangerous proximity to them or past them....
The next time you are in your car, put the window down and listen for a loud motorcycle...chances are you might hear one but not know what direction it is coming from....
Save your money and put a good horn on the bike, that will do more to save you than a loud exhaust, either that or adjust your riding to avoid the idiot drivers...
Some have simply taken the stock cans off and ran the end pipes...
The term loud pipes save lives is a fallacy......the exhaust is behind you and a motorcycle is fast...by the time someone hears your exhaust, you are already either in dangerous proximity to them or past them....
The next time you are in your car, put the window down and listen for a loud motorcycle...chances are you might hear one but not know what direction it is coming from....
Save your money and put a good horn on the bike, that will do more to save you than a loud exhaust, either that or adjust your riding to avoid the idiot drivers...
Some have simply taken the stock cans off and ran the end pipes...
Drop the cans until you can afford an exhaust, I’ve always ran megaphones. Won’t save you. Been hit four times, killed once. Headlights are mandatory. I’ve always heard the excuse didn’t hear or see him. It’s bs, I avoid cagers and pay a lot of attention to my mirrors now. Best of luck.
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I Hate hearing a loud bike coming when I'm driving my truck in traffic.
Reason being, all I can hear is screaming exhaust, and I'm looking all around trying to see them, so I can give them as much room as possible.
But, as you say, the bike is usually passing me when I still think it's behind me, and that is with having a good ear for the speed, and knowing how quick bikes accelerate(like most of us here can).
I can see the loud exhaust confuse or startle non bike people.
I keep my exhaust quiet(so you can't hear which way I went), and I ride like I'm invisible.
And, I am also putting a Loud horn on my Gsxr project.
That and the neighbors hate those loud exhausts....there was an old adage of not crapping where you sleep....pissing off neighbors is not high on my list of things to do.
I once was going to put an exhaust on my truck but after hearing a few of them roar up my street, I thought better of it...
I really like the Yosh system on my bike, it's very quiet at lower revs, I can ride around my neighborhood and bother nobody.My Harley identifies as a ninja. You’ll never know I was there.
I save my ripping for the backroads where there isn't anyone to bother....
Keep your eyes about you. Loud is fine, but everyone here is "distracted". Weed, booze, phones, car nav displays, etc...They don't see us so you have to be one step ahead of them.
When I got run down in 2014 on the I 15 at Tropicana, and I woke up in the Sunrise Trauma. I had to track down Nevada highway patrol for a report. They said 7 out of 10 bike accidents involving cars and bikes are hit and runs. They get scared and run.
Loud exhaust or not, you need to pay real close attention to what these knuckleheads are up to. It's not as bike friendly a town as it once was.
If you wanna be loud for now, take off your mufflers. It's not obnoxious and the bike isn't gonna care.....
When I got run down in 2014 on the I 15 at Tropicana, and I woke up in the Sunrise Trauma. I had to track down Nevada highway patrol for a report. They said 7 out of 10 bike accidents involving cars and bikes are hit and runs. They get scared and run.
Loud exhaust or not, you need to pay real close attention to what these knuckleheads are up to. It's not as bike friendly a town as it once was.
If you wanna be loud for now, take off your mufflers. It's not obnoxious and the bike isn't gonna care.....
Still laugh at this:
"Big girl" walking down the sidewalk in neon Hot Pants. Fellow responsible moto enthusiast revs his "loud bike" in appreciation. Hot pants flips him "The bird." I laughed my tail off.
Or...
My father-in-law and I parking the 454 in a concrete underground garage. I aim the tail pipe, with a tired glass-pack, at the wall and rev her in neutral setting off three car alarms. Aforementioned father-in-law laughs himself silly.
Get the loud pipes...
(Says the guy with quiet pipes.)
"Big girl" walking down the sidewalk in neon Hot Pants. Fellow responsible moto enthusiast revs his "loud bike" in appreciation. Hot pants flips him "The bird." I laughed my tail off.
Or...
My father-in-law and I parking the 454 in a concrete underground garage. I aim the tail pipe, with a tired glass-pack, at the wall and rev her in neutral setting off three car alarms. Aforementioned father-in-law laughs himself silly.
Get the loud pipes...
(Says the guy with quiet pipes.)
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Fully agree! That popular "loud exhausts save lives" saying is a theoretical mentality that doesn't take physics into consideration.
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I went a step further and installed a shorty pipe, which is literally running a straight pipe. It was deafening to everyone in a mile radius, but it still wasn't enough for drivers in the front trying to merge on top of me. In addition, bikes simply are just too fast and too small for drivers to react to them in time.
Only good loud exhausts have done to me is that when lane splitting or filtering, the nice people hear it and automatically open space for me, ha-ha.
My first bike was an '04 ZX-6RR that same year. I put a D&D slip-on. It was so loud, my friends in the front and in the back couldn't hear their own exhausts over mine. I still had people try to kill me.
I went a step further and installed a shorty pipe, which is literally running a straight pipe. It was deafening to everyone in a mile radius, but it still wasn't enough for drivers in the front trying to merge on top of me. In addition, bikes simply are just too fast and too small for drivers to react to them in time.
Only good loud exhausts have done to me is that when lane splitting or filtering, the nice people hear it and automatically open space for me, ha-ha.
…and automatically hate motorcycles. Quiet is better so when they do remember us they don’t do it with a frown.
I concur, even I catch myself getting angry when I hear some crazy screaming around on an extremely loud bike (or car/truck).
At one time I considered putting an exhaust on my pick up in order to hear the hemi engine working...then I heard one with the muffler delete and that cured me of that. One of my neighbors has a very annoyingly loud exhaust on his Ford Eco-boost and it sounds awful-he doesn't notice because he has electronically piped in sound....he thinks it sounds like a V-8....
I like the sound of my bike with the full Yosh system as I can idle around in built up areas and not be noticed.....but it sounds healthy when revving out on the back roads.
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