I've read the words, "my bike now has a nice
bark" twice in this thread, and so I have to ask the following...
While I realize the degree to which the sounds any motorcycle makes is subjective, I've always wondered why you guys who like that "bark", like that "bark"?(and no, I wasn't being redundant there)
You see, I think that "bark" or maybe better said, that "tinny" higher pitched "WAAAAAAAAH" sound when you open up the throttle on our bikes with a "straight pipe" or totally unbaffled muffler, is well, terrible sounding. I MUCH prefer a lower pitch "rumble" sound on our bikes, or ANY bikes for that matter, and when its muffler has at least a little baffling inside it, regardless of "how loud" it is.
(...though, as anyone who knows me around here knows, I CAN'T STAND EXCESSIVELY LOUD PIPES, regardless of how much they "rumble" or NOT...and MAINLY because, as Ed[oldroadie] pointed out above, loud pipes do NOTHING BUT piss off not ONLY "The Man" but almost EVERYONE who doesn't ride a motorcycle, and THOSE are "bad odds" for us in the long run...and I DON'T need excessively loud pipes to "prove" to anyone one that I'm some kind of freakin' "Rebel" EITHER...hell, I do THAT by just by bein' CONTRARY and by often stating unpopular opinions among by peers...as, once again, anyone who knows me around here knows!!!!)
