Show your wheels!

[Serenity]

Actually loud pipes just makes you annoy all your neighbors and make them want to piss in your oat meal.

Loud pipes make car drivers look around for the source of the noise. Before I ever rode, when I would hear a loud engine around me, I would look around to see where it's coming from, and if your bike is SEEN by other drivers, your a thousand times safer... Granted, I don't want SUPER loud pipes, to where the neighborhood hates you, but enough to be heard.

[danny76]

Loud pipes make car drivers look around for the source of the noise. Before I ever rode, when I would hear a loud engine around me, I would look around to see where it's coming from, and if your bike is SEEN by other drivers, your a thousand times safer... Granted, I don't want SUPER loud pipes, to where the neighborhood hates you, but enough to be heard.

There is a.modicum of evidence supporting this but as stated,  loud pipes mostly pass people off, as well as landing you fines

[MrRiplEy[H]]

There is a.modicum of evidence supporting this but as stated,  loud pipes mostly pass people off, as well as landing you fines

I can say for certain that if any motorcycle comes close enough to my Mercedes that I can hear the pipes, he's a split second away from being rolled over lol.

[danny76]

Anyone turning up after a bike accident needing skin grafts for wearing inadequate protection should be refused treatment and dredged in salt.
Being too hot in leathers is no excuse. If Valentino Rossi can wear full leathers and race for an hour in Californis in mid summer, then there's no excuse

[Zoney]

I used to be in the "Loud Pipes" mindset but not anymore.  After 40 years of licensed riding, I realize it is my awareness that will save my life because trusting "cagers" to be aware is for fools.  I can also hear an approaching car and gain an advantage just from hearing the "sing" of their tires on the pavement.

I wear a helmet, gloves, jacket (even in the summer ,in Arizona), boots, and jeans everyday, and I do ride to work every single day, unless it is raining which here, is about 5 times a year.  I have a full leather roadracing suit, gloves and boots that I put on when I go for a ride into the mountains.  I think safety gear is a matter of risk management against comfort and convenience.  Even cagers would be safer if they wore a helmet when driving a car, but they don't and there is no law making them do so.  It is a choice we all must make. 

Saying that someone hurt on a bike should not receive treatment isn't funny. 

Saying someone getting near your cage with load pipes means you are going to run them over isn't funny.

I've got a new bike.  I suck at getting pictures from my phone to this board.  Any of my friends wanna help an old man out?  PM me your phone number and let me text you a picture so you could kindly post it for me please.

[Sol75]

I used to be in the "Loud Pipes" mindset but not anymore.  After 40 years of licensed riding, I realize it is my awareness that will save my life because trusting "cagers" to be aware is for fools.  I can also hear an approaching car and gain an advantage just from hearing the "sing" of their tires on the pavement.

I wear a helmet, gloves, jacket (even in the summer ,in Arizona), boots, and jeans everyday, and I do ride to work every single day, unless it is raining which here, is about 5 times a year.  I have a full leather roadracing suit, gloves and boots that I put on when I go for a ride into the mountains.  I think safety gear is a matter of risk management against comfort and convenience.  Even cagers would be safer if they wore a helmet when driving a car, but they don't and there is no law making them do so.  It is a choice we all must make. 

Saying that someone hurt on a bike should not receive treatment isn't funny. 

Saying someone getting near your cage with load pipes means you are going to run them over isn't funny.

I've got a new bike.  I suck at getting pictures from my phone to this board.  Any of my friends wanna help an old man out?  PM me your phone number and let me text you a picture so you could kindly post it for me please.

Agree 100%.  I too wear jacket, boots, gloves, jeans, and a helmet on a daily basis.  No matter how hot.  Granted it is not as much protection as a full leather suit, but it is good protection, and as Z said, it's all about risk mitigation, vs comfort.  Im willing to take a little more risk to be comfortable around town.  Getting out on the back roads and railing, I will definitly wear my full 1piece leather suit, and my race boots, along with gauntlet style gloves and back protector.  I also enjoy doing track days, so the same equipment applies there...

Protective equipment should be the rider/drivers choice.  I choose to ride protected, but noone should be forced to if they don't want to be, just as seat belts shoudl not be required to be worn.. 
I find the statement of someone injured in a bike accident should not be treated to beyond not funny, and very offensive and plainly, it pisses me off.
The same goes for the "run over" with loud pipes.  Motorcyclists have as much a right to the road as you do, in your side impact - air-bag laden cage.  It's all about awareness.  Be aware that we are out there, be aware we arent as easily seen as another cage.  Stop texting while you are driving.  Look twice, and maybe you won't cause us to not go home to our families that evening.

[danny76]

I went to a bike smash at relatively low speed. Older guy wearing leather jacket, gloves and helmet, jeans and riding boots. He came off at about 35 MPH. He struck no road furniture or other vehicles and his leg was chopped meat. His right hip and both knees had visible, ground up bone. I have been riding since 1994, I ride everyday and wear full leathers, gloves, boots and helmet, with a back protector, or I don't go out. It may be convenient in jeans, it is also short sighted.

We have a legal requirement to wear a helmet in the UK, if you really need to force guys to wear a helmet on a 200mph machine, you should simply repeal the law and allow Darwin law to take effect

[Sol75]

That is exactly what I am saying.  Noone should be forced to protect themselves from themselves.. Laws should be in place to protect people from other people, not from their own choices.

[SilverZ06]

Zoney's pics....

That is a bada$s bike Zoney!










 

[Zoney]

Thank you Silver!

The first picture is My new 2014 CBR1000RR SP.

The second is me getting it right at the racetrack for the win in 2006.

The 3rd is me getting it wrong for the DNF waaay back in 1991.

[Sol75]

Beautiful CBR, had a 600RR before I got the Ducati.  Id love to do true racing sometime, I LOVE track days, can only imagine true racing is that much better!

[Delirium]

I can say for certain that if any motorcycle comes close enough to my Mercedes that I can hear the pipes, he's a split second away from being rolled over lol.

Please attempt to do so. This way, we motorcycle riders can own your Mercedes, your house, and a few years paychecks to boot.

[Zoney]

Beautiful CBR, had a 600RR before I got the Ducati.  Id love to do true racing sometime, I LOVE track days, can only imagine true racing is that much better!

You just have to go for it.  There is no comparison.  I raced for 20 years and was lucky enough to win over a hundred races.  Practicing and track days are really fun, and you think you got it down and you got it under control ....... then you pull up to an actual start finish line, take your grid position and wait for that green flag to fly......................yeah, it isn't even close to the same.  Racing however is not really more fun than trackdays but it is certainly more exciting.  Oh, and race at that same track you have been doing trackdays on, knowing your best times and watch seconds fall away from your best lap.

[Wiley]

Please attempt to do so. This way, we motorcycle riders can own your Mercedes, your house, and a few years paychecks to boot.

You... guys do realize he was more than likely making a comment about how effectively his Merc mutes exterior noise right?  That's how it reads to me.

Wanted to get into bikes when I was a whelp.  The more I looked into it and the more I came to realize that "needing to ride as though the rest of the vehicles on the road are actively and maliciously trying to kill you" was not an overstatement, I chose to remain a cager.  Well, that and full body leather in the summertime is not appealing to me.

Wiley.

[Sol75]

You just have to go for it.  There is no comparison.  I raced for 20 years and was lucky enough to win over a hundred races.  Practicing and track days are really fun, and you think you got it down and you got it under control ....... then you pull up to an actual start finish line, take your grid position and wait for that green flag to fly......................yeah, it isn't even close to the same.  Racing however is not really more fun than trackdays but it is certainly more exciting.  Oh, and race at that same track you have been doing trackdays on, knowing your best times and watch seconds fall away from your best lap.

Sounds amazing.. I may just shoot for doing so next summer.  I mainly do track days at Mid-Ohio and Putnam... (live in Cincinnati, so those are the closest)
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Although I think I would get a dedicated track bike if im going to do "true" racing.