[ScraitT]

There's kind of 3 sides to this...

1) The people who don't notice the loud pipe...even if they DO hear it, they don't care enough to look to see if the bike is 40 feet back, or 3 feet back in their blind spot. These of course are the dangerous drivers that will come over in your lane without really looking...the pipe just doesn't make a difference to these people.

2) The people who hear it and actually care enough and pay attention to where it's coming from. Unfortunately, this scenario isn't nearly enough drivers....also, I'm betting a lot of these drivers see the bike and know it's there without hearing the pipe because they are alert drivers.

3) The people that the pipe just annoys and pisses off. This could be someone that hates noise or just hates bikes and this pisses them off more. It could be someone that just is having a bad day or has a headache. But there's definitely people that the pipe will annoy, and the problem with that is that there are some (thankfully not many) of those people that will purposely drive like an ass to piss you off and make you as miserable as they are. They aren't going to run you over, but they may cut you off or swerve in your lane a bit to piss you off...


There are definitely SOME times a pipe can help you....however theres are SOME times a pipe can potentially be worse. And there's ALL the time that a loud ass pipe can piss off all your neighbors.

The ideal "loud" pipe to me would be the newer types that they are doing for cars with butterfly valves on a switch. You could have stockish sounding exhaust, and with the flip of a switch, it opens up, drastically increasing the volume.