[woollyone]

"I enjoy riding mine just fine with stock mufflers. I wouldn’t even mind moderately louder aftermarket pipes. But when I can hear some idiot with straight pipes accelerating away from a stop sign 3 blocks away they’re TOO DAMNED LOUD!"

So you're obviously OK violating EPA noise guidleines by changing pipes on YOUR bike, but also want to be the new bully onthe block to decide what is too loud for everyone else eh?

Even by your examples you hae appointed YOURSELF to be the Lord Of The Noise...where all noise is loud only according to YOUR standards.

LMREO

typical tyrant answers!

In other words the EPA rules are too strong for YOU, so it's OK for YOU to break those rules...but EVERYONE else has to do what YOU say?

I heard about that atitude in church...

Your sin on YOU needs forgiveness.
Your sin on ME need condemnation.

Hypocrite!

...and FWIW...my pipes ain't "ear-splitting"...which is a relative term, and actually not even a legal or medical definition...'nuther story altogether tho.

any way...listen to yourself & then get real!

...by the way...you wouldn't just by odd coincidence happen to serve on a HOA board of directors would you? Live in a HOA community? you would make a great HOA brown shirt!

[-YYZ-]

No, I don't belong to an HOA, and you might try calming yourself. In fact, I meant that I wouldn't even mind moderately louder aftermarket pipes on other peoples bikes. Although, I did have an aftermarket can on a previous bike that I owned, for a while, I was never really comfortable with the amount of noise that it produced, which is why I insisted the guy I bought my current bike off put the stock mufflers back on before I took possession.

I don't know if your pipes are ear-splitting or not. Ok, that's not a technical term. Do they cause children to cover their ears, adults to glare at you in disgust, and animals to cower in fear when you ride by them? Then they're probably too loud.

Yeah, I think the EPA regulations are probably too strict. Unfortunately idiots who have to go way over the top and have the loudest possible pipes are ruining it for all the people that actually have an ounce or two of sense in their heads.