DO Harley's HAVE to sound that obnoxious??

[kindest]

my dad has a harley and he starts it up every sunday morning and warms it up
and i know it wakes up 1/2 the neighberhood, its so damn annoying. Plus the house
reeeks of exhaust the rest of the day..

but hell one day i want to drive it and to annoy people.

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: mjquilly
Loud Pipes Save Lives

ditto ...if its too loud you're too old or too much of a wuss...

my Mustang had shorty headers, an off road h-pipe and 2 1/2" dia two chamber flowmasters...that thing was loud, would set off car alarms when I drove by them...no one got in my way, and I was glad when people said they could hear me comming from a mile away...I would especially want that on a bike given that most drivers suck. The further away they hear you the better chance they know your a commin.

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: IamElectro
The funny thing is Harley has a trademark on the sound the engine makes.


Harley lawyer: "Your honor, our competitor's ripoff of our product purposely goes potato-potato-potato."

Rice-burner lawyer: "Nonsense, it goes poTAHto-poTAHto-poTAHto. Motion to call the whole thing off."



link

Read above, they dropped it because they saw it was not going to happen

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
actually the sound that a Harley makes is good as it gives the asswipes in their riced out cages with their obnoxious Rap Crap and Boomer sh!t notice that a Rider is near bye.

Lee you are just pissed because you lack the normal amount of testosterone to enjoy the noise that American made Power makes.

Ummm, where is the "Power" in Harley Davidsons? I doubt it is possible to get less performance per dollar anywhere else on earth.

 

[Goosemaster]

Sneak into their garage and adjust the igition timings😎


" otatop, otatop, otatop "


Bwuahahahahaha:evil:

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: UglyCassanova
Just as bad as those rice rockets going RRRREEEEEEEEEE REEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

bullsh*t. I've NEVER EVER heard a rice rocket as loud as even an average harley.

I agree. Harley's can contend with full out race cars in their noise. Can't see why people won't tolerate a fartcan, yet don't crap on Harley's. They're more obnoxious then anything out there on the road.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Sneak into their garage and adjust the igition timings😎


" otatop, otatop, otatop "


Bwuahahahahaha:evil:

hahhahahahahhahahaha

 

[boyRacer]

It's ok... some of them shake the car right next to them... 😀

I like the sound of Ducati twins and the generic wail of Japanese fours better though... 🙂

 

[Instan00dles]

Not only do the sounds that harleys make sound like crap but their bikes are too. I guess they go hand in hand them, they cant get anything right.

 

stfu kid, isn't it past your bedtime?

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
Not only do the sounds that harleys make sound like crap but their bikes are too. I guess they go hand in hand them, they cant get anything right.

he's right.

 

[ElFenix]

better than this dude in a white accord around here who has bass that i can feel in my apartment 100 yards away

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
better than this dude in a white accord around here who has bass that i can feel in my apartment 100 yards away

...that's better than Treble Master who pulls up around 10-11pm almost every night busting his bassless soundsystem around my neighborhood

 

[Instan00dles]

Originally posted by: SammySon
stfu kid, isn't it past your bedtime?

lol well if you are talking to me, no it is not my bed time. I actually got a day off work tommorow so I will be up for quite a bit longer.

 

lol well if you are talking to me, no it is not my bed time. I actually got a day off work tommorow so I will be up for quite a bit longer.

naw dooder, I wasn't talking to you. If I was, I would have quoted ya.

smoke a fat one for me.

 

[Instan00dles]

Originally posted by: SammySon

lol well if you are talking to me, no it is not my bed time. I actually got a day off work tommorow so I will be up for quite a bit longer.

naw dooder, I wasn't talking to you. If I was, I would have quoted ya.

smoke a fat one for me.

ah alrighty, will do

:beer:

 

[burnedout]

So Im guessing no one hear Rides..

I have a Fatboy and I upgraded my pipes so its louder!

Sweet Sweet Noise!

Been riding 'em since '83. Purchased my current Sporty in August, '88. How many riceburners last that long?

AS they come from the factory they are fairly quiet. But the morons who buy them things tear off the factory exhaust and slap on illegal off road glass packs so they can vibrate their groin. Yes we should have community noise standards so our privacy isn't invaded by the groin vibrators or audio thumpers and fart pipe ricers.

Glass packs, hell. I run straight pipes. The motor must breathe.

God, I can't believe I got halfway through the thread before somebody bitched about these fvcktards. I'd like to shove their GD gokarts up their ass, subs and all!

I'll gladly volunteer my services. Damn younger generation. Ain't got any respect.

Not only do the sounds that harleys make sound like crap but their bikes are too. I guess they go hand in hand them, they cant get anything right.

Ever own one? Or is that an emphatic no based upon some Gen-X/Y/WTF misconception?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Sneak into their garage and adjust the igition timings😎


" otatop, otatop, otatop "


Bwuahahahahaha:evil:

hahhahahahahhahahaha

glad someone got that


a :beer: for you

 

[Bulldozer]

What's with you guys saying you "like the sound real power makes"??????

Harleys have no power, they are slow compared to nearly all other bikes on the road. All but the v-rod put out around 50-something horsepower.

"Loud pipes save lives" is a steaming pile of crap.

They have loud pipes to maximize the attention they receive. They bought an overpriced, under engineered POS and want everyone to know it.

god i hate the goddamn idiots that insist on plowing thru a residential area

Since when do motorcycles plow?

 

[Instan00dles]

Originally posted by: burnedout

Ever own one? Or is that an emphatic no based upon some Gen-X/Y/WTF misconception?

nope I dont own one, would never waste my money on something like that. I have been on plenty of test rides to get the feeling of them. First off they have no power especially for a 1500cc engine, cause they cant design them.
dyno reading at the bottom of the page They also shake too much but then that boils down to personal preference as does the seating postition of crusiers which I also do not like. The angle the pistons run at make the bike very unstable and that is why the shake alot more than other bikes with the same engine, even after adding counter blanacers. Harley has never tried to fix this problem even since they grafted the second piston onto their engine cause they were loosing the races againsts jap bikes. Their engines have never really changed since that day, nothing new or innovative just the same crap for over 20 years. Harleys are also very unreliable, I have never seen a new bike leak oil on the showroom floor, well other that harleys.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: boyRacer
It's ok... some of them shake the car right next to them... 😀

I like the sound of Ducati twins and the generic wail of Japanese fours better though... 🙂

You mean that high-pitched, nasally, ball-less whine?

 

[Instan00dles]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: boyRacer
It's ok... some of them shake the car right next to them... 😀

I like the sound of Ducati twins and the generic wail of Japanese fours better though... 🙂

You mean that high-pitched, nasally, ball-less whine?

balless whine? a I-4 jap bike with destroy a harley in every way machine are tested, at the dyno, drag strip, race track, on the street etc..... it seems the harleys have no balls and try to make up for it by sound alone.

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: boyRacer
It's ok... some of them shake the car right next to them... 😀

I like the sound of Ducati twins and the generic wail of Japanese fours better though... 🙂

You mean that high-pitched, nasally, ball-less whine?

balless whine? a I-4 jap bike with destroy a harley in every way machine are tested, at the dyno, drag strip, race track, on the street etc..... it seems the harleys have no balls and try to make up for it by sound alone.

hahahaha PWNED!!

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
nope I dont own one, would never waste my money on something like that. I have been on plenty of test rides to get the feeling of them. First off they have no power especially for a 1500cc engine, cause they cant design them.
dyno reading at the bottom of the page They also shake too much but then that boils down to personal preference as does the seating postition of crusiers which I also do not like. The angle the pistons run at make the bike very unstable and that is why the shake alot more than other bikes with the same engine, even after adding counter blanacers. Harley has never tried to fix this problem even since they grafted the second piston onto their engine cause they were loosing the races againsts jap bikes. Their engines have never really changed since that day, nothing new or innovative just the same crap for over 20 years. Harleys are also very unreliable, I have never seen a new bike leak oil on the showroom floor, well other that harleys.

well, thats 1950s engineering for you 😀

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: boyRacer
It's ok... some of them shake the car right next to them... 😀

I like the sound of Ducati twins and the generic wail of Japanese fours better though... 🙂

You mean that high-pitched, nasally, ball-less whine?

balless whine? a I-4 jap bike with destroy a harley in every way machine are tested, at the dyno, drag strip, race track, on the street etc..... it seems the harleys have no balls and try to make up for it by sound alone.

The bikes are not made to compete with jap I-4's at all. Apples and oranges here. The sound has nothing to do with the performance. It's the design of the engine.

Harleys can be fast, any of you who say otherwise haven't ridden one. My old mans bike screamed, and that was without using the nitrous. Have any of you ever heard of a Buell?