I've got Sceptres... my bud has TBikes on his America... to the best of my recollection his Tbikes are not that much louder, if at all, than my old TOR SS (never had the chance to a-b them).
I ride with a bunch of HD's (1200 Skirtsters w/ straight pipes, night trians, street glides etc...) all pretty stoopid loud, to the point of pain & my other bud has an '03 Indian Scout... not sure the pipes but he's ****** loud too.
Now in comparison all the HD's & the Indian are still louder then me & the Sceptres but my buddy on the america w/ the TBike pipes is virtually inaudible next to me.... The HD boys can over power me with the db's but that's fine... I don't need to be the loudest SOB on the road.
I'm loud enough to get noticed, sounds good, good perfomance & if I try really hard I can get thru a residentail neighborhood fairly quietly at 4am... if I try really hard... but maybe I'm just deaf & think I'm being quiet....
anicodte.... Just the other day I hooked up w/ my best friend (the guy with the night train)... he had been stuck in his cage all day for work & we were goin somewhere else to meet more people...
me being the wonderful friend I am offered my SM so he could get a little wind in the face... besides he's wanted to give the trumpet a whirl since I got it.
I can only imagine I felt close to what a proud parent feels when ther kids do well at a talent show or something like that... as I've always felt a tad inadiquate with the HD crew mainly do to the voume... Often have I heard the, "Is that thing runnin" jabs... but when he opened her up & took off... I welled up a bit as I could hear my bike from about 1/2 mile away... I could tell he was havin fun!
