Well Will, before this thread gets into a debate about REALLY LOUD exhausts and their viability as a "safety measure", I just want to say here that "from year one motorcycles and motorcyclists" HAVEN'T always "had a bad rep". NOPE! You see. there WAS a time long long ago BEFORE the likes of folks such as Sonny Barger(he of Hells Angels "fame") came roaring down the pike on their motorcycles to "help give" that "bad rep" of which you speak a "little boost" in the minds of many of the non-riding general public, motorcycles were viewed as a means of general purpose transportation. YEP! That TRUE! Look it up if you don't believe me.
And ahhhhh BTW...Ya wanna know what I think REALLY SAVED my A$$ and has kept ME ALIVE all these 40+ years of riding these babies around in this friggin' horrendous traffic of LOS ANGELES? Well, it's the little stuff you see, like remembering to stay out of cagers BLIND SPOTS, and slowing down a bit and having those two fingers on my right hand "a'ready" to squeeze the front brake lever, if I'm coming up to an intersection and if I have the SLIGHTEST INKLING that the cagers headed the opposite way might pull some boneheaded stunt and make a left turn right in front of me!!!
YEAH!!! THAT'S some of the things I FEEL that keep my butt from being SIX FEET UNDER to this very day!
AND it had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with ever having any motorcycles of MINE produce enough friggin' NOISE to WAKE THE FRIGGIN' DEAD, and ANNOY those cagers out there who may be inclined to think of the afforementioned Sonny friggin' BARGER whenever they see or especially HEAR a motorcycle going down the friggin' STREET!!!
