Spoilsport!

Yo! Good advise is given here freely, based on previous experience. Feel free to re-prove it at your own expense.
If I had it to do over again I would consider the Rassk pipe for all the reasons Greg listed. Priced good chrome work lately??

I like the fact I can add/remove discs AND use the open or closed ends on the 'Trapp. For long trips I can make it quiet and loud for bike night.
BTW; does someone make a baffle or insert for Rassk?

Speakin’ of phones, I carried a cheapo Walmart Tracfone in my riding jacket, "just in case" (I was surprised and pleased to find it worked great in Ontario too).

Now I got (on ebay)a really cool i605 Motorola since the folks at my current project said they would put me on their Nextel if I got a phone.  
I hated the phone issued on the last job, but it was tough-as-nails, "Mil spec", Motorola, dropped to the plant floor several times once from screen guard from 16'. I liked that.
The i605 has a bunch of stuff i won't ever use, need or want, But it had the largest, brightest screen, "Mil spec ."and it has GPS! If you read the fine print Nextel will always place a 911 call.
So even after the job is done and they shut off my account, forget internet access, text messages or stock quotes, I can still place a 911 call and it can send the exact location too, Good insurance.

For instance; Greg you drove through the last ice storm in these parts last year. One night some poor nurse slid off the INTERSTATE and called for help & gave her location as "somewhere between Jackson and Memphis. The EMTs ran up and down the highway and figured she motored on.
NOT! She was now unconscious and a second search was not called until she was reported missing & matched the same vehicle! She was found STILL ALIVE some days later still trapped in her car (dead cell phone) that slid across the ice, well into the weeds, obscured way down a hill and crashed! The ice left no tracks!

Oh yes, I forgot.  I have a baffle for the Raask.  When I bought the pipe, Sivert Raask told me that the (then) baffle was just experimental, but I bought it for $25 anyway because I had to pay for the shipping for the pipe as it was...why do it twice, right?

The baffle does reduce the noise.  It doesn't really affect performance, but it gives the pipe a tone that I don't like as well without it....not just an issue of volume, but tone.  It's the low end sound that I don't like.  I am running it now, but using their design idea I plan to build another baffle for myself in the not too distant future.

The Raask is pricey, but so is a Cobra setup....ever priced them?  

It depends on what you want....

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Nahhh Greg ... ya didn't rattle my cage old buddy ... I was just musing out loud ... have an irritating (according to my wife anyways ...) tendency to do that from time-to-time. Wife ays that I "think too much" ...
Anyhoo, I apologise for gettin' off on a tangent!

Paladin. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:07:


I work in telecom as well and when it comes to evolution/advancement, we can be just as stunted as the next part of human culture.  Take a cellsite as an example.  You'll find two voltages powering nearly all of the gear there.  They run on either 24VDC or 48VDC.  The telephony gear uses 48V because Bell used 48V and we never got over it.  The radio gear uses 24V because Marconi used 24V and we never got over it.

On the point of the Romans, I believe the aqueducts played a significant role in that empire also but I'd have to agree with you on the whole.  It's my personal belief that if they'd had communications speed even on par with the telegraph, we might all be living under that empire now.

It is a little known fact that all medevial castles had breweries.  The purpose of the castle was to protect the brewery.  Thus proving that beer is the keystone of civilization.

That we cannot get a decent Bitter in the U.S. is a subject we will have to ignore.

8)Havin' a Heineken right NOW!! Beer ... it's not just for breakfast anymore!
Life without beer just wouldn't be worth living ...