Oh noes, you didn't just science the stupidity did you?
Loud vs quiet exhaust?
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I said they're "basically" omnidirectional meaning that for the sake of this discussion they can be heard from all directions and orientations. I made no claims regarding intensities. As an electrical engineer I've referred to and used certain "omnidirectional" antennae which typically have torus ("donut") shaped radiation patterns:
Despite the radiation patterns not being perfectly spherical these antennae are still referred to as "omnis".
Given this precedence I don't feel my use of the term "omnidirectional" to be egregiously in error. But if you want to pull out your SPL meter and map out the lobe shapes of various motorcycle exhausts as you pick the flyshit out of the pepper be my guest.
Perhaps you could put that acumen to use to address those that claim that motorcycle exhaust noise is useless as a safety enhancer because it all goes out the back. Failing that, I'm sure there's some grammar or spelling somewhere you could attack next.
Comments like this in this thread give me a headache... continue on!
I said they're "basically" omnidirectional meaning that for the sake of this discussion they can be heard from all directions and orientations. I made no claims regarding intensities. As an electrical engineer I've referred to and used certain "omnidirectional" antennae which typically have torus ("donut") shaped radiation patterns:
Despite the radiation patterns not being perfectly spherical these antennae are still referred to as "omnis".
Given this precedence I don't feel my use of the term "omnidirectional" to be egregiously in error. But if you want to pull out your SPL meter and map out the lobe shapes of various motorcycle exhausts as you pick the flyshit out of the pepper be my guest.
Perhaps you could put that acumen to use to address those that claim that motorcycle exhaust noise is useless as a safety enhancer because it all goes out the back. Failing that, I'm sure there's some grammar or spelling somewhere you could attack next.
The context of your original omnidirectional post....
Stop being obtuse. Sound levels in front of the bike are significantly lower than behind. They are not omnidirectional, they are not "basically" omni-directional either.
What you wrote is factually incorrect and you're only making yourself look more silly by arguing semantics.
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Any data to support I ride a motorcycle to get chicks and be cool?
Cause this thread sure demonstrates why the ladies love the guys who ride.
Comment is gender bias due to the lack of female participation but, I would imagine the same holds true for either male or female riders.
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Cause this thread sure demonstrates why the ladies love the guys who ride.
Comment is gender bias due to the lack of female participation but, I would imagine the same holds true for either male or female riders.
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Do you have your horn button shorted out so the horn sounds all the time you are riding? If not, why not? After all, isn't it worth it if it catches the attention of just one person who might not have got the message from your loud pipes?
What happens when EVERYONE, car and bike alike, go to loud pipes to gain that bit of a supposedly protective edge?
That's a lot of laps. Where did you ever find the time, and how did you ever manage to survive in the heavily congested Square One traffic environs without loud pipes?
Ah, never mind - defensive riding skills. A foreign concept to many here.
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Didn't you post a pic of you and the gf the other day? Based on that alone, then yes, it was the bike's work.
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This makes sense to me. In my warehouse, all of our electric pallet jack machines used to have a constant beep when they were in motion. ~50 at any given time. People used to come in and say "how do you deal with all that beeping?" My reply? "What beeping?". Now that I have trained most to use their horns when backing up, approaching blind corners etc. incidents have decreased.
Still not getting rid of my pipes, though. ?
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Thread title is too confining limiting discussion to loud vs quiet. Need happy middle ground. Is this doable?
Didn't you post a pic of you and the gf the other day? Based on that alone, then yes, it was the bike's work.
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Lol. Yup! As a matter of fact, she hates the Buell and encouraged getting the hog.
She also liked the stock pipes so we could "talk" while cruising.
Before she could finish that statement, I was on eBay........
And now you know the real reason why I have V&H slip ons.
But it's definitely the bike that attracts the chick. Not the rider. Or the sound for that matter.
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I don't need to. My exhaust provides a certain level of sound that, when combined with other things like hi-viz and "careful" riding goes a long way to ensuring my presence is known to other drivers. If all that fails, I have the horn as a final back-up, if you will, that might get their attention on an as-needed basis.
Then I'll have to go a bit louder I suppose. Yours in an interesting but useless hypothetical since cars and motorcycles have been around for more than 100 years and we've not had a noise-level arms race thus far.
It all goes to reasonable levels of sound. You guys are so fixated on the open-pipe fringe case that you're blind to the obvious benefit of reasonably engaging another of other drivers' senses for your own safety.
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lol ... mmhmm...
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If only you could do the same with the loud pipes. So I guess you agree that loud pipes make a lot of unnecessary noise if the extra noise is really only needed a fraction of the time?
I was sitting at the forks coffee shop yesterday talking to a new friend (Iceman) bikes coming and going the whole time. If any silent bike rode past I don't know about it. There were at least half a dozen bike where the conversation needed ceased because the exhaust (and one with loud stereo no guff lol) was over the top stupid loud. Just saying.
New Brunswick already has a stock pipe only law. What are you going to do when that law is in ontario? Its only a matter of time, but it is coming.
You have a horn?!? A forward-facing horn? Then what do you need loud pipes for?
That would be stock pipes.
