I'm not into the loud pipes save lives mantra, but it's pretty obvious they give you more road presence and it's also pretty obvious that many riders get knocked off their bikes because... "sorry mate I didn't see you".
Why not
both do what you can to increase your road presence (reasonably loud pipe + modulated headlights + decent horn upgrade)
and ride defensively, assuming-always that no-one can see you?
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Originally Posted by alex.s
show me one instance where a loud pipe has saved a life. i'll be you $1 that you can't find one.
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It's going to be pretty difficult to find any cases like that as the rider would have survived and then you can't really prove that the rider would have died had they had a quiet pipe. Conversely it's much easier to find cases of riders who did die despite having loud pipes... as they are now dead... so you can like... prove they had a loud pipe and like... died.