 Has anyone not heard stock pipes?
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Just for fun, yesterday, I decided to do some jetting adjustment (secondary), and decided to try the stock pipes out. (I bought the bike with D&D's already installed.) Well to my ear's surprise... I was like WTF!!!!. It sounded like an old stock Honda CB750 that was out of balance. All I could hear was the inner workings of the engine. It was like there was no exhaust at all! I'm so glad I already had an exhaust upgrade! I probably would have never bought it had I heard the way it sounds in it's natural state! 
Andy
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and missing my '70 TR6R
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this has been on u tube for a while stock pipes fitted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQikGZEiDcthere is a clip with ss pipes on same bike but someting is wrong with the sound on that clip when i had standard pipes on.I always wanted to go on the grass.  thought i had started my lawnmow up 
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I rode mine for a (very) few miles with stock pipes, but I didn't hear a thing except the things moving around inside the engine.
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when i had standard pipes on.I always wanted to go on the grass. thought i had started my lawnmow up
I think my lawnmower made more Db than the stock silencers. I am tempted to retrieve them from the backshed & remove a couple baffles out of curiousity.
jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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My lawnmower has a meaner rumble than that. I think my mother's singer sowing machine has more db.
Aaron
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I bought a tach for that reason. When in traffic at a stop I could not tell if my 03 America was even running. The second purchase was Septre exhaust, haven't needed to look at the tach since.
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The America/Speedy with standard pipes has been likened to George Jetson's flying car more than once. 
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My lawnmower has a meaner rumble than that
Funny but true.......
Erwin
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My lawnmower has a meaner rumble than that. I think my mother's singer sowing machine has more db.
i know for a fact that my daughters toy poppin lawnmower make more noise than my speedy did stock...****** i think i could even hear my cell phone vibrating over the stock pipes.
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When I bought mine in Feb, it had stock exhaust. I rode it home (about 12 miles) and heard nothing but the workings of the engine. That was the first and last time I rode it with stock pipes.
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The America/Speedy with standard pipes has been likened to George Jetson's flying car more than once.
That made me laugh. When I brought my bike home, my daughter said it sounded like the Jetson's car.
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Was out with my harley buddies,had to ask them to look see if my headlight was on. 
Last edited by marty; 06/22/2009 10:21 AM.
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