Engine design is predicated by muffler and intake snorkelling which is predicated by government dictate.
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I think you laid 'er down with dictate. I do not think that word means what you think it means. Shouldn't there be a noun like specification there, instead of a verb? Oops, my bad. The noun form is on the second page.Engine design is predicated by muffler and intake snorkelling which is predicated by government dictate.
Question : had the bike out last week, and found that my exhaust seemed louder than usual. As most of you know, I suck at anything mechanical, so is it possible that a baffle isn't working properly or may have fallen out? Is that even possible? Or am I just getting old? I haven't had a chance to run the db meter app yet, as it's on my old phone. I just hope that the db reader doesn't tell me that I am now a db.
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I think you laid 'er down with dictate. I do not think that word means what you think it means. Shouldn't there be a noun like specification there, instead of a verb?
Don't burn your ear drum doing that. It happens more often than the ears get cleared.Have you done any maintenance lately? Like ear candling?
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Holy crap actually yes.Have you done any maintenance lately? Like ear candling?
Loud horns save lives. It's proven by science.
The side benefit is that they don't annoy everyone, just the ones you aim them at.
Or at least the surrounding people have a chance to see why you're being loud.
Last year I had 2 bikes in my garage and I would ride them alternately to work, one was the VTX 1300 with cobra exhaust and one was the BMW R1200 with a super quite exhaust.
Riding the same route with each bike from the burbs to downtown I did notice quite alot of people would cut into my lane with quite R1200, and never with VTX. Hence I was noticed by being heard.
This happened all through summer, and I had to be much more vigilant with the R1200 C than the VTX.
The sound of the exhaust made people aware I was coming from their sides, I just feel much more safer on a load bike than the quite one.
Last year I was helping someone take a look at a Ninja 250 and the exhaust on that thing was ridiculous. At idle, it could be heard from 500m away. The seller "test rode" it to show that the bike was okay - I'm not ******** you, he got the cops called on him by neighbors in 1 min of "test riding" (neighbors from 2 different houses came out yelling). Bike was not plated. By the time cops got there, bike was parked and he was given a warning.
It was hilarious to me because he called me a wuss for not test riding the unplated, presumably uninsured, obnoxiously loud bike that he barely knew how to ride (not exactly how you get a prospective buyer to buy).
During our interaction, his dad actually pulled up to his driveway in his car and called him an idiot cause he was also riding full squid (no helmet) while he booted it up and down the street telling him to get rid of the f'in bike.
Loud pipes are a nuisance...they are down right awful on 250s.. there is no need for loud pipes unless you intend to blast pass the world at 150 + kmph and you want the world to know you are coming through..
You are forgetting that as bikers we are attuned to the sounds of exhausts and look for bikes. The average cage driver who does not have any connection to bikes may not even register it different from road noise.
Loud pipes saves lives cause I'm aware of it and watching out for cops when I turn up the volume on it.....lol
油井緋色;2493169 said:So maybe they should add into the G1 training with sound bites lol
You do bring up a good point though.