Harleys are ridden by people with money and clout to beat the law. Nowadays, more lawyers and doctors ride harleys than bikers so the cops let them alone. A motorbicyclist is nothing but an annoyance to a cop so we're MUCH more likely to get hassled for excessive noise or outlawed. We simply don't have the numbers to make lawmakers listen to our side, so we are facing increasing laws everywhere already.
Don't ride with no pipe. You are hurting ALL motorbikers position that we deserve to be left alone instead of being forced to fork out fee after fee simply to enjoy our hobby.
A few more MPH are not worth the damage to the hobby caused by the noise.
Just my opinion.
Yep, it may be tolerable to you, but to others, its quite annoying. Just. Like. Harleys. Difference is harleys are paying licensing and other fees, we dont (in most places). They're legal to go super fast (well... you know what I mean, obviously speeding is illegal regardless but a cop aint gunna pull em over and say "bikes are limited to 32km/hr" like they do with us some places). The lower the heat, the less bothered we'll be. Problem is some people run these on the sidewalks and do other hazardous things (even with e-bikes).
Just to put it into perspective, there's about 1 mile between my home and the main street in my town. If I ran my drilled stock exhaust, my roommate can hear me, indoors, for that whole mile. I havent been bothered about it personally, but I didn't like attracting the attention. Now I run the SBP pipe and it's actually quieter than stock, near-silent when not WOT. With a 5" straight pipe (basically the muffler cut off the header) it's so loud my ears ring after only starting it for a minute. The cold air hitting the hot piston will boost performance and cool it, but cooling metal rapidly makes it very brittle (annealing, for you aspiring blacksmiths out there), but harder. Sadly we dont want hardened pistons we want them strong. Once a piston has been annealed, it's quite easy to blow a hole straight through it, potentially destroying your motor, but definitely rendering it useless until it's replaced.
