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Darthane
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 02:42 am: | 
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While technically she was incorrect, she does have a point. You quite often don't hear them until they are next to or past you, depending on their speed and ambient noise.
The pitch of the sound has more to do with when it will be heard relative to your position, I think, than the decibel level. |
Ingemar
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 03:15 am: |
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When I had my stock pipe on my buell, I did more than one ride with my dad on his glide with near-open pipes. Most of the time I would be in front of him, only a few yards between us. I would not hear him at speeds over 50 mph until he was about to pass me (if I let him) or there was something we passed that would bounce off the sound (viaducts, tunnels, walls, trucks etc).
Soundwaves do travel fast, but they also have a direction. If there is nothing to bounce off against, I believe most are going backwards and sideways. Less forward. |
Mikej
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 08:44 am: |
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I've generally related the "loud pipes save lives" issue to passing cars and letting them know you're in their blind spot since that's about where they hear you. |
Outrider
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 01:40 pm: |
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Oh well, someday there will be a published "scientific study" of the issue and none of us will be pleased as it will be government funded and we will just lose another freedom. That being the "Freedom to Annoy and Scare Others."
Problem is we will lose some performance in the process and we will have to buy bigger, faster bikes to compensate. Wonder if the USA manufacturers will be able to supply that market?
As it stands, the imports already have the ability to glue your eyeballs to the inside of your colon with their EPA Approved pipes. Funny how we are never satisfied and still have to tinker another few ponies out of them and I am as guilty as the rest of you. LMAO |
Glitch
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 01:48 pm: |
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Funny how we are never satisfied and still have to tinker another few ponies out of them and I am as guilty as the rest of you.
It's the American way!
I've never been able to leave well enough alone myself. |
Freyke
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 02:30 pm: |
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Check it yourself...
dBa meter from radioshack |
Outrider
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 04:15 pm: |
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Hey...That is slick. Wonder how it would do in measuring a drive-by. Heck, I can always buy one, test it and return it. Won't even need to leave the parking lot. LOL
Then again, a true test would be in different cars, trucks, vans and SUV's with combinations of windows, radio, kids, traffic, etc.
Gosh if this works in those environments, it would be worth it just to have some documentation. I assume it wouldn't be the best, but at least it is something, eh? |
Odie
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 04:56 pm: |
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My kids would peg it and break the darn thing............... |
Raraf
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 05:28 pm: |
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Sometimes you cannot help being beside a car. One time I was stuck in a lane waiting to make a left through an intersection. Suzuki Samurai chick looked right at me and started merging. I kicked her door. Put a good dent in it. Last Friday, I was cruising to work and I saw a deer by the road. Stock pipes. Slowed way down. It waited till I was almost there and jumped in front. I honked the horn and rapped the pipes. It started going down the road! Deer and Buell parade. This riding bud went with me one time with his straights. One time from Sturgis, a herd of deer were in the road. One rap of the pipes = scatter. Cruisin through Lookout Mountain, deer around corner + rapped his pipes = deer gone. |
Odie
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 05:41 pm: |
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Raraf, I'm laffin' my butt off!!! I too, have put dents in peoples cars by kicking them. Not something I think is very wise but at the time I'm soooooo PO'd that it doesn't matter. Down here in Alabamy we have huge turkey buzzards that sit in the road and eat the roadkill armored rats (armidillos) and one twist of the throttle on my wideglide with drag pipes sends them airborne....same with deer (that's what they call them small brown things down here...I'm from Michigan.....these ain't deer...) |
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