Keith_B wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06: I would not drill it, LOUD PIPES JUST MAKE PEOPLE HATE BIKERS!
Yea I just hate to hear my bike fire up in the morning. The straight pipe brings me to the point of insanity. Hate myself, love myself, touch myself. It gets so confusing!
What makes people hate bikers is bikers. The way you act on the road. Polite, defensive riders usually have no negative results from their exhaust. If you're out there tearing up the roads like you are the only one there it wont matter what pipes you have. You're gonna give us all a bad name. Don't belive it? When is the last time you saw a GSX-R tearing down the road pissing people off? Was it the volume of the pipe you noticed? If volume of the pipe determined how the motorcyclist was perceived you could pull a wheelie on a stock Savage going down the interstate @ 80mph and nobody would even notice.
Loud pipes are not going to kill my wife or kids as they go to school. Some idiot trying to show how "good" he can ride as he passes in curves and rides wheelies on public roads on the other hand might. And I'm not picking on any one group in particular. I'm just making a point.
You want to set a positive example? Show some respect for the other guy. Cage, Bike, Semi, no matter what they are driving they will think better of you/us as a whole from a simple act of kindness before they ever worry about how loud your bike is.
Drill the pipe if you want. It's your bike.
My opinion, Don't leave anything but the chrome, and then paint that black!