I never believed the loud pipes thing either. But the other night I was coming through some construction on rt 290 in wocester MA. And for those of you not from the northeast, this is a screwed up portion of road. And out of no were this harely coming screaming up splitting lanes. I never would have know he was there, if I hadn't heard he was coming. I wouldn't ride like that, or have a bike that loud. But I never believed it before then.