Hey guys...I'm brand spankin' new here, but been riding one thing or another for 20 years or so. I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents here and say that loud pipes DEFINETLY saved the lives of the couple riding (on an ultra-classic HD) on I-94 in Wisconsin this summer. I drive an 18 wheeler and had just finished passing a slower truck when I hit my right signal, checked my right mirror, saw it was safe to start merging back right when all of the sudden I heard the V-twin bellow and it almost sounded like he was underneath my truck! I stopped my rightward track and was basically stradling the "zipper" checking both mirrors and not seeing anything when all of the sudden he shoots out passed me, nearly on the right shoulder and gassing it as hard as he could, all the while managing to shoot me the bird with his left hand. His poor passenger looked terrified holding her head down. After he got ahead of me, I finished my lane change and picked up the CB mic and asked the guy in the truck behind me what happened. He said "the guy came within 2 inches of my bumper trying to get around you on the right." Moral of the story, this guy was in a bit too much of an hurry, but I would have made jerky sticks out of them had it not been for his 'loud pipes'!!!!!!
