This brings to mind a drop-dead gorgeous young lady who used to attend the HSTA rallies. (She's probably a drop-dead gorgeous forty-something now...) She had a t-shirt that read "The Louder the Pipe, the Smaller the Penis."
need some more sound
- Thread starter rockdog
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Do you still have the pipes?
I've got a complete set of Delkevic pipes. $250 plus shipping.
Where are you located?
I'm in Paradise California.
troystr68
Troyster
best thing i ever did was put two brothers exhaust on my 2009 ST I love it!!!
i rode it twice stock
once the day i bought it
Went home ordered the new exhaust
once on the way to have them installed
Love them
i rode it twice stock
once the day i bought it
Went home ordered the new exhaust
once on the way to have them installed
Love them
Funny... the best thing I ever did was take the two brothers exhaust off my ST11... after 6 months of noise, I could stand it no longer. The relative silence of the OEM exhaust was so nice!
ST Gui
240Robert
Were you in Paradise during Camp Fire? That must have been horrific.
I understand that everybody has their preference and I'm not knock any but I really like a quiet exhaust these days. Every now and then I hear a car or bike with a great sounding exhaust note but then remember what it was like living with high dBAs runnin' round through my helmet. Relative Silence is how I roll.
Sure, motorcycles need to be louder like fart pipes on econo-boxes need to be even more annoying.
I'm with you on the quiet. My last bike was 1800 cc's of Incredibly Loud Noise. The kind that sets of car alarms. I tried to quiet it with baffles but in the end I let someone else who likes noise buy it (who fortunately lives many miles away). Nothing wrong with a little Jetson noise.
I bought a pair of cheap "motorcycle mufflers" on Amazon and bought some pipe and had my local muffler guy bend it up a little and wrapped it in a red fiberglass to prevent over heating the plastic bags right above it. Personally I like the sound it makes. Doesn't scream like a street bike at 14k but makes up for it with a ton of "exhaust flash" under decel (some call it back fire but that implies a lot more than what is happening here[too much air in the exhaust]). Simply, It's loud. But at times when I try to ride at night it's too loud. I JUST put the stock back on as I plan to add a radio... been on a day and I don't like it. I want something in between. Anyone ever try modifying the stock muffler. I'm willing to try with yalls help. However I don't know what a cross section of it looks like at all so I have not the slightest where start.
My dad has said that on his Goldwing they drilled holes in the rear of it and it gave it a deeper sound. Which these are very similar mufflers.
Any existing known ways to modify them please message me.
My dad has said that on his Goldwing they drilled holes in the rear of it and it gave it a deeper sound. Which these are very similar mufflers.
Any existing known ways to modify them please message me.
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Andrew Shadow
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Very nice. Which Two Brothers are they?Welcome from WA STate!! Try a set of Two Bro's exhaust pipes... Good sound and you loose about 20# off the bike.....
And they look good too...
The stainless with the power tips installed. Just right.......
So, other than sounding "cool" (and annoying others), why does anyone want louder pipes? It's not like it improves performance, which for an ST is already more than enough.
It just makes me think fully grown adults are still thinking like children with their "the "look at me" attitude.
Sure, I might have put playing cards in the spokes of my bicycle when I was ten, but I hope I've outgrown it.
I'm happy with the performance and the sound of a stock ST1300.
It just makes me think fully grown adults are still thinking like children with their "the "look at me" attitude.
Sure, I might have put playing cards in the spokes of my bicycle when I was ten, but I hope I've outgrown it.
I'm happy with the performance and the sound of a stock ST1300.
I'm equally happy with my 11s.
I once put so many cards on my bicycle, one everywhere it would fit, that I couldn't make it go.
All I got with each push of the pedal was, "Flap, flap, flap . . . flap, flap, flap . . . flap, flap, flap."
ST Gui
240Robert
+1 The last thing I need is more noise from any vehicle.
That said I might like to change the character of the sound but not the volume. I don't care for the Singer/KitchenAid/Jetson sound but there's no alternative I like. It may be the engine design percales that. For me louder isn't a substitute.
With the number of Dodge Hellcats and similar in the area I'm more annoyed by loud exhaust than I've ever been. Years ago I did a test drive in a first year Lexus 400C. Nice and quiet. Polite even. Until brisk acceleration. Then there was a subdued growl that was satisfying. Just not loud. Maybe I'd spend money if it was possible to get that with the ST.
I put several different mufflers on my 750-4 way back. Only two were actually satisfying and polite — a Paul Dunstall 4 > 2 and the stock 4 > 4 with slightly modified baffles. Everything else made more noise than HP. And the 750 already had more HP than I needed.