Serious question from a biker. I was always curious, has loud pipes ever saved your life or is it an excuse because you like the sound? I run stock exhaust on my bike, so it's not overly loud.

 

Probably so. I had LOUD pipes. What saved my life was selling that murder bike and only driving in cages from now on.

 

Had an incident with a guy with loud pipes parked his bike on the sidewalk next to the entry to a sandwich shop. When I came out it was idling, I told him the gas fumes were getting into the shop. He thought it would be cool to rev the bike and spin out off the curb and clip my ankle on his way.
Cops never caught the SOB.

I still walk with a cane.

 

It's definitely easier to hear when you have someone coming up behind in the car if they have loud pipes.

 

Love the sound of a Harley with V&H long shots

 

I don’t like motorcycles but I have a valid reason. I worked weekend nights in CT scan at a level 1 trauma center years ago. I’ve seen it all. It’s almost never the motorcycle driver’s fault. I say the louder the better.

 

That's pretty shitty what happened to you. Very sorry to hear that.

 

In my experience,
Deer will not step out into the roadway in front of you if they hear you coming.
Disengage the clutch, twist the throttle hard to get their attention and they will evade the motorcycle every time.

 

Lol I thought that this was about

1. Someone calling for help
2. Burst water pipes

 

Whatever you have to do to make other drivers aware of your presence when riding a bike, more power to you. For the idiots running around in their rice burner 4 cylinder cars, your custom loud exhaust and rear spoiler add-on don’t impress.

 

I had Vance and Hines 2 in 1 pipes. They were plenty loud enough. Biker days begone!

 

The Yoshi pipe on my FZ was plenty loud. The Sportster had a stock pipe, also rather chatty.

Not great when you’re leaving for work early in the morning. :/

 

They never saved my life but damned near got me hit by a train

 

Curious, is it because you couldn't hear the train?

 

Yes. I grew up in a small town no lights or bells back then.

 

Amazon has some great after market pipes.

 

I used to have a Panhead with Yaffe Crack Pipes and yes one day they did save my ass, I was at an intersection waiting for the light when the brain dead kid behind me was on his phone and started rolling forward, before he hit me I rolled on the throttle and scared the shit out of the little pussy making him realize what was happening. He did apologize and all of that after I was yelling at him for several minutes just as loud as the pipes had been and the kid started crying. The light changed and I just rode off leaving that loser sitting in his car rethinking his every move that day.
BTW these are the crack pipes.

 

Yes they do, V&H Big Shots on my Deuce keep the idiots outta my way.

 

Many times, clutch in twist the wick, have had trucks get back in the lane they were coming out of, didn't see me in the blind spot, but he heard me.
Whenever I see those shining eyes on the side of the road, clutch in, brake down, twisting the wick, deer run away from that growl, I stay behind em, cracking it, no natter how slow, but they move away from the sound, only get that back and forth if you got game fences on both sides, they can't get over, that's why you stay behind them.