[TexasGator]

Statistics don’t back up the claim

Some riders will still believe they avoided a crash when a car heard their exhaust, and maybe that really did happen. But North America’s best-known study on motorcycle safety, the 1981 Hurt Report, found motorcycles with loud pipes were not less likely to be involved in crashes — if anything, they were a little more likely to crash. As the report states on page 421:

https://canadamotoguide.com/2016/07/29/the-truth-about-loud-pipes/#:~:text=The%20theory%20is%2C%20loud%20pipes%20automatically%20make%20the,more%20cautiously.%20However%2C%20the%20Doppler%20Effect%20mutes%20

[jdsteel]

All I know is when a driver wasn’t paying attention and I revved my engine their head swiveled.

That’s enough for me.