[Healeys] Bike mufflers Was: Re: Muffler for Healey 100

rrengineer @dslextreme.com rrengineer at dslextreme.com
Wed Dec 30 22:20:45 MST 2009


Bob,
     You may be right is many cases, but if they are loud enough...  In
California it is legal to split lanes on the freeway.  I have had slow
moving cars widen the space btween them several cars back when I am doing
this.  I have also had people purposely tighten up the space because they
either are jealous of me getting ahead in slow moving traffic, don't like
motorcycles or are just assholes.
Mike

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> FWIW, I got nothing against bikes/bikers--my best friend rides--and I go
> out of my way to give them a break (when I see them).  But, I've pulled out
> in front of a couple bikes I didn't see; these bikes were coming at me and I
> don't think loud pipes did/would help at all, since the noise is largely
> behind them (there's some acoustic physics at play here, but I won't pretend
> to understand them).
>
> I think loud pipes as a safety feature is overstated.  Just my opinion,
> based on my observations.
>
>
> bs
>
>
>
> rrengineer @dslextreme.com wrote:
>
>> Obviously, you gentlemen do not ride motorcycles, nor do you appreciate
>> the
>> fact of how a "quiet" motorcycle is quite invisible to most people in
>> "cages" (cars to the 4 wheel vehicle types).  I cannot tell you how many
>> times I have been cut off in traffic by someone that simply does not "see"
>> me when they take a left in front of me in oncoming traffic or a lane
>> change
>> in front of me.  Before I changed the exhaust this happened all the time.
>>  I
>> have cut the frequency of this occurance considerably by putting the
>> louder
>> pipes on my motorcycle.  I have had people take a left turn while looking
>> right at me, turn in front of my moving combined weight of 1000 pounds
>> (only
>> two brakes and two contact patches) because I don't register in their
>> brain
>> as a vehicle.  I don't look like a car, so I must not be there.   People
>> in
>> cars think that a motorcycle can stop on a dime.  Little do they know.  I
>> have loud pipes for a better chance at survival.  Of course, I like they
>> way
>> they sound too.  What are you guys compensating for with your flashy
>> sports
>> cars?  I don't really give a crap what you guys think of me or my
>> motorcycle.  I have been riding them as long as I have been driving Austin
>> Healeys. (About 40 years)  Even in an accident in your fifty year old car,
>> you are safer than me on my exposed two wheel vehicle.  I'll take any
>> advantage I can get. People in glass houses...
>> Mike MacLean
>> 56 BN2
>> 60 AN5
>> 02 Heritage Springer (I'm safer in the first two, but it doesn't stop me
>> from riding)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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