Sonny
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Loud pipes may save lives... under certain conditions, not all...
VERY LOUD pipes make you VERY DEAF before your time. And they make all motorcycling look bad by irritating and alarming motorists, who will eventually take out their low regard for motorcyclists on other riders. Same goes for any kind of rude aggressive riding around traffic.
And, maybe it's just me, but very loud pipes kinda label the rider as an obnoxious person even if they don't draw regular pull-overs and noise tickets from the po-leece.
The last thing is, if a loud pipe gets you to thinking everyone notices you now and you start to let go of the idea that you are invisible to cagers, and driving like it, that is going to lead to trouble.
I have a bad habit of watching moto-vlog youtubes, and watching folks go through intersections with left turners and past people pulling out of parking lots and doing it at 40, 45, 50mph without slowing down, and I cringe for them. CHP motor officers are trained to slow to 25 crossing any intersection that presents a chance of someone cutting them off. It is a nuisance, not ever trusting a cager not to kill you, but it greatly reduces the chance they will be able to kill you a few minutes before they tell a cop they never saw you.
And that goes for a stock muffler or a six inch straight tube coming out the exhaust port.
My Savages have stock mufflers but I have heard Dynas and they sound great and are not deafening. They are also lighter than the stock item.
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