Lions and Tigers and Loud Pipes! Oh my!!

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Lions and Tigers and Loud Pipes! Oh my!! Steve L 10-14-2008
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Posted by Steve L on October 14, 2008, 7:53 am


Loud pipes can sound really annoying and obnoxious, but I love the
sound of a motorcycle when it's set up right.

This is interesting.

http://www.harley-davidson.com/wcm/Content/Pages/Ride_True/Ride_True.jsp?locale=en_US&hbx_camp_id=hdredirect&urlvar=ridetrue_com#/exhaustiveResearch/



Posted by B. Peg on October 14, 2008, 8:56 am


> Loud pipes can sound really annoying and obnoxious, but I love the sound
> of a motorcycle when it's set up right.

The police in Oakland, CA install LOUD pipes on their Harleys as they claim
"They are safer on them being heard." They are above the states legal dB
level and the question was whether the CA Highway Patrol would cite them for
being illegal per the CA Vehicle Code.

The city council approved their installation at a cost of $15,000 for the
louder pipes.

B~



Posted by S'mee on October 14, 2008, 11:32 am


> > Loud pipes can sound really annoying and obnoxious, but I love the soun=
d
> > of a motorcycle when it's set up right.
>
> The police in Oakland, CA install LOUD pipes on their Harleys as they cla=
im
> "They are safer on them being heard." =A0They are above the states legal =
dB
> level and the question was whether the CA Highway Patrol would cite them =
for
> being illegal per the CA Vehicle Code.
>
> The city council approved their installation at a cost of $15,000 for the
> louder pipes.
>
> B~

Just proving the city is as STUPID as everybody else. Especially when
claiming loud pipes save lives...which they do not.
--
Keith

Posted by Bob Myers on October 14, 2008, 12:12 pm



>> Loud pipes can sound really annoying and obnoxious, but I love the sound
>> of a motorcycle when it's set up right.
>
> The police in Oakland, CA install LOUD pipes on their Harleys as they
> claim "They are safer on them being heard." They are above the states
> legal dB level and the question was whether the CA Highway Patrol would
> cite them for being illegal per the CA Vehicle Code.

Well, no one has ever said that the police were immune
from doing stupid things.

Bob M.



Posted by Steve L on October 14, 2008, 9:10 pm

> Loud pipes can sound really annoying and obnoxious, but I love the
> sound of a motorcycle when it's set up right.
>
> This is interesting.
>
>
http://www.harley-davidson.com/wcm/Content/Pages/Ride_True/Ride_True.jsp?locale=en_US&hbx_camp_id=hdredirect&urlvar=ridetrue_com#/exhaustiveResearch/
>

The anechoic chamber is cool. I worked at a computer company in '81ish
when we needed to build an anechoic chamber to measure RFI emissions.
As government regulations had just begun to require them.

That's a pretty cool microphone measurement set up they built there. I
seem to remember someone asking about what Harley ever did as far as
innovation. That might be an example. Maybe not, maybe Honda told them
how to do it.






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