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Yeah, it does, especially when you're behind it. I think it's the gear whine combined with the sound of the exhaust leaving the pipes.A little while back a friend who was riding with me commented - "Your bike whistles". Does it ?
When people ask me about it....I just tell them that is the Turbo....It really sounds, from your description, like the Jetson’s whine for which it’s known. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but that is one of my favorite parts of my ST.
I think that's a little too distinctive for an experienced rider not to notice and deduce immediately. I noticed it the first time I started the bike and have never not noticed it though I am acclimated. But I'd never describe that as a 'whistle'. A whistle is what I hear when I open my visor just right or the kettle comes to a boil.It really sounds, from your description, like the Jetson’s whine for which it’s known.
Yep, mine too. jfheath, I don't think you have anything to be concerned about.That's exactly what mine sounds like.
Yes I've found that what you hear coming up through the helmet is not much like what others might hear. I agree with tj and DavidR8 that this is SOP for the ST.jfheath said:The sound is actually all the way through the video
Hopefully, nothing but gasoline ever goes from the fuel tank to and through the injectors on it's way to the intake ports and into the combustion chambers.- so I just closed the throttle. So no air / fuel going through the injectors, therefore no air going through the airbox - (I assume).
So that is more likely to suggest the gear whine. Yet I had checked that (a stethoscope is too posh for me, I use the screwdriver to the ear trick, remembering to put moly grease on the handle first of course).
Look ma! No wheels!You must have bought one of those very rare special limited edition models of the Honda Pan European.
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