mapper
XS400 Member
Ok, my Xs400 is extremely loud, is this normal, I know that they are after market pipes, but it does grab attention and cars know when I'm near any suggestions about other brands of pipes that may be a little quieter?
Hopefully,if you are a "young'un",You'll use ear plugs.If not,You'll be saying"huh" a lot when you're my age.Years of "boom,boom" all day and sometimes all night have just about messed up my hearing in certain wavelengths of sounds. lhaMine is missing the exhaust baffles so it is also extremely loud. If I am standing next to it and rev it past 5k rpm's it literally hurts my ears! :-(
Back in another century and a far country, my lady and I loaded a Yam 350 [2-stroke ancestor of the 400] with tent, bags, camp stove, coffee pot, iron skillet, etc. [everthing but salt ] and set off on a camping trip. Being young and silly we thought that if we we cound find a way to strap it on, the bike would haul it.haha I after a summer of riding I finally realized I should wear earplugs yesterday after a 100 miles round trip in which my ears hurt after (and my bike overheated as well )-: )
Hopefully,if you are a "young'un",You'll use ear plugs.If not,You'll be saying"huh" a lot when you're my age.Years of "boom,boom" all day and sometimes all night have just about messed up my hearing in certain wavelengths of sounds. lha
Soccer moms are deaf and and blind. Ignorant pigfckers don't care whether they hear you or not - if they want your spot they WILL move into it even if they are looking right at you. I have kicked dents into car doors to get their attention as they crowded me out of my lane - this is risky as some just don't care while others are mean, selfish, and don't care [I was much younger and still immortal].loud is good when a soccer mom on her cell phone is about to hit you since she can't see you when she is on her phone
Bikers take note: Loud or quiet, you can be run down and left for dead and the self-centered two-ton asshole who did it will drive away without blinking. They probably won't even get a twinge of conscience, much less a ticket. So watch your ass!