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Author Topic: This is different, like the sound of the exhaust.  (Read 923 times)
John Schmidt
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« on: February 03, 2021, 11:50:51 AM »

He starts it later in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7K8Br_gBU
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2021, 06:19:07 PM »

He starts it later in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7K8Br_gBU
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2021, 07:28:18 PM »

you can even make a whisper quiet honda ctx700 sound tough with the right exhaust even though it is not....   Grin   I looked at buying a used one 2 years ago for 3K or so like new but the clutch version sucked hit rev limiter nearly every single shift, severely cutting power ASAP no fun at all might as well get an automatic one.  It was comfy though for what it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXHTeyFI1mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvkeU4yU9P4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H61jc3nSHdA

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2021, 04:03:34 AM »

He starts it later in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7K8Br_gBU

No thanks.   Have lost too much of my hearing playing and working in loud environments.   
You don't realize it's going until it's almost gone.

I can only imagine riding that bike down the highway for a few hundred miles.   Yeah, I know that's not a bike meant to be ridden on iron butts but, the point remains valid.   
Interesting mods though.   Just not for me.

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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2021, 07:01:37 AM »

Such concerns - hearing damage - are why I like my pipes so much.  Set the sound level low for cross-country with the silencers, while still having more power than stock and a rumbly note.  And enough sound so you can appreciate the note around town.  I can't hear my exhaust over the wind on the highway - though I CAN hear my tunes - setup with speakers not headset.  Then pull the silencers if I want more exhaust volume at the ride-in.  One screw per side, takes a minute.  I lost some hearing in the war from the jet engines.  Now very protective of what's left.  Though I should do better on that - should wear ear plugs from the wind noise - just don't bother.  I always wear ear muffs at the range.  I should wear them hunting too.  But then it's only one BOOM almost always.
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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2021, 07:59:06 AM »

should wear ear plugs from the wind noise - just don't bother

I do that now. If I forget I hate it right away and stop to put them in...



I'm on my second jug full... got some in my jacket pocket, some in the
1500's saddlebags and some in the 1800's utopia "purse"...

I've been around some loud noise... concerts - Tom Petty was LOUD...
worked in a glass bottling plant in high school... most recently I
got invited to sit in with some guys and play music... the drummer
killed me. I went to the ear doctor and sat in one of those rooms where
you listen for beeps... I can still hear real good, but I have tinnitus now,
from the music...

-Mike
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2021, 08:36:29 AM »

I've also got the tinnitus .  BAD.  Was in several gigging rock bands, with some members that were overly stoked on the decibel rush, especially after a six-pack when practicing around the google-eyed gals.  Years of shooting, more often than I'd like to admit sans proper protection.  Crazy youth days camping, shooting, drinking.  Not always in that order.  So many loud concerts.  Decades of motorcycle riding, including drag pipes on v-twins and Two Bros six-into-six pipes on a Valkyrie that I had to get rid of after hearing the drone for two days after a long ride. 

24-7, loud.  I kinda "phase it out" unless I'm in a very quiet environment or if I start thinking about it and bring it into my forebrain.  Then it can get maddening.  Like right now...

Earplugs.  Coulda.  Shoulda.  Had I known, woulda.  I will try to wear them more in an attempt to keep the little hearing I have left.

One more thing to look into, I s'pose.  Ol' body is falling apart a bit, bit by bit...
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2021, 08:38:43 AM »

These work great for me...really tone down the sound on the highway and for longer rides and are easy in, easy out.



I use cotton batten for ear plugs. Comfortable because it forms perfectly to your ear specifically, and great for taking away wind noise and some of the glass pack exhaust drone when the silencers aren't in (they seem to be in most of the time lately)  , while still allowing me to hear other things. Keep a plastic container of the little cotton balls in the trunk...the Mrs likes them better than ear plugs as well.
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2021, 08:55:54 AM »

I've also got the tinnitus .  BAD.  Was in several gigging rock bands, with some members that were overly stoked on the decibel rush, especially after a six-pack when practicing around the google-eyed gals.  Years of shooting, more often than I'd like to admit sans proper protection.  Crazy youth days camping, shooting, drinking.  Not always in that order.  So many loud concerts.  Decades of motorcycle riding, including drag pipes on v-twins and Two Bros six-into-six pipes on a Valkyrie that I had to get rid of after hearing the drone for two days after a long ride. 

24-7, loud.  I kinda "phase it out" unless I'm in a very quiet environment or if I start thinking about it and bring it into my forebrain.  Then it can get maddening.  Like right now...

Earplugs.  Coulda.  Shoulda.  Had I known, woulda.  I will try to wear them more in an attempt to keep the little hearing I have left.

One more thing to look into, I s'pose.  Ol' body is falling apart a bit, bit by bit...
Yep, tinnitus is bad for me too, I sleep with a fan going for white noise but the ringing is louder than the fan.
I've gone to loud concerts and played overly loud music as a yoot, through 40 years of doing construction I've always used ear plugs. I ride with a half helmet and use ear plugs to cut the tire noise from cars mostly.

I'm very noise and light sensitive these days, much more than when younger. I use the orange foam ones and cut them shorter so they don't stick out.
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2021, 09:38:49 AM »

My tinnitus comes and goes.  I aced the few hearing tests I was ever given (long ago).   

Most of the time it's always present, but so low as to be unnoticeable, unless actually listening for it.  You just get used to it and ignore it.

But every few days or a week, out of the blue, it's like a little conductor in my head pulls the locomotive horn and it goes RINGGGGGGGGGGGG for a few minutes. 

I was subject to many excruciatingly loud rock concerts, steel mills and a few other things in my life, but not for many years.  I just think it's part of the slow progression to the long dirt nap.

They sell pills for it now, but I don't take pills.

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« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2021, 10:11:04 AM »

I use these because they have one of the highest NRR numbers and they don't go into the ear canal. This means they never get uncomfortable no matter how long I wear them.

https://earplugsonline.com/
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2021, 11:59:20 AM »

My tinnitus comes and goes.  I aced the few hearing tests I was ever given (long ago).   

Most of the time it's always present, but so low as to be unnoticeable, unless actually listening for it.  You just get used to it and ignore it.

But every few days or a week, out of the blue, it's like a little conductor in my head pulls the locomotive horn and it goes RINGGGGGGGGGGGG for a few minutes. 

I was subject to many excruciatingly loud rock concerts, steel mills and a few other things in my life, but not for many years.  I just think it's part of the slow progression to the long dirt nap.

They sell pills for it now, but I don't take pills.


Me neither.. though I had a powerful toothache a few mos ago and luckily had some Vicodin stashed for emergencies which helped me sleep until the Vitamin C worked its magic.. I should be more proactive with tinnitus self treatment, been too busy with all the other life demands so I just tolerate it.  uglystupid2
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2021, 02:38:33 PM »

Ha, I saved my Vicodins (for root canal) too.  Came in handy for bad low back pain.  Glad the low back pain is pretty much a thing of the past.  The Vicodins are long gone too, and if I need another root canal, I think I'll just have them put me down like a mad dog.  I've had 8 (or so) over my lifetime, and they are the closest thing to actual torture I've ever experienced. 

The dentist is not your friend.   
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« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2021, 03:06:06 PM »

I also Like Marks exhaust system, I had them on my Interstate and love the sound with the baffles out....I did learn my lesson quick to put the baffles in while I was pulling my trailer, talk about loud reverberation
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« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2021, 06:47:18 PM »

Ha, I saved my Vicodins (for root canal) too.  Came in handy for bad low back pain.  Glad the low back pain is pretty much a thing of the past.  The Vicodins are long gone too, and if I need another root canal, I think I'll just have them put me down like a mad dog.  I've had 8 (or so) over my lifetime, and they are the closest thing to actual torture I've ever experienced. 

The dentist is not your friend.   
That's funny, I had 30 of them from a dentist and didn't need em, there's probably 25 left in the bottle and they're expired.. still potent though.
Dentists don't bother me too much, except for the time a dentist was pulling a wisdom tooth, he practically had to stand on my face  Grin, then the pliers slipped and smacked another tooth, I though he broke the other one but I guess it was ok  question that one sucked  tickedoff
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« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2021, 09:06:12 PM »

Ha, I saved my Vicodins (for root canal) too.  Came in handy for bad low back pain.  Glad the low back pain is pretty much a thing of the past.  The Vicodins are long gone too, and if I need another root canal, I think I'll just have them put me down like a mad dog.  I've had 8 (or so) over my lifetime, and they are the closest thing to actual torture I've ever experienced. 

The dentist is not your friend.   
That's funny, I had 30 of them from a dentist and didn't need em, there's probably 25 left in the bottle and they're expired.. still potent though.
Dentists don't bother me too much, except for the time a dentist was pulling a wisdom tooth, he practically had to stand on my face  Grin, then the pliers slipped and smacked another tooth, I though he broke the other one but I guess it was ok  question that one sucked  tickedoff

Old scripts just get weaker, not poisonous.   (though I'm not sure about antibiotics, which generally they tell you take the whole script, whether you want to or not)

Only problem with those Vicodin, you don't sh!t for a month.

My first two wisdom teeth, I was put under with an IV.  When I woke up afterword and looked in the mirror, I his Keds hi-tops tread pattern was still on my forehead.   
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« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2021, 09:35:04 PM »

I have tinnitus too, from the jets on the flightline and end-of-runway arm/de-arm.  We didn't always have our ear muffs if we had to be near running jets w/o our tool caddy with the muffs inside.  Of course on my exit exam, they found no damage to my hearing.  I think they get a commission for that.  A civilian audiologist said I lost 40% of my hearing and now I have the constant ringing.

I run my silencers with Organ Pipes all the time.  And added SS wool between the paks and the silencers.  Cuts the volume some more.  So now it's a pleasing rumble but volume only a little over stock.  Can't hear it at all on the highway, level just right around town.  With my adjustable windshield set right, even the wind noise is minimal.  Even so on road trips I would be smart to use earplugs.  I don't have any extra hearing to spare.  Just like I don't smoke the wacky tabacky anymore either - don't have extra brain cells to burn out.  My last legal cigarette was smoked on 5/19/92.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_-vNtWLLs

I don't know of a tune on hearing loss...
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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2021, 09:24:02 AM »

Ha, I saved my Vicodins (for root canal) too.  Came in handy for bad low back pain.  Glad the low back pain is pretty much a thing of the past.  The Vicodins are long gone too, and if I need another root canal, I think I'll just have them put me down like a mad dog.  I've had 8 (or so) over my lifetime, and they are the closest thing to actual torture I've ever experienced. 

The dentist is not your friend.   
That's funny, I had 30 of them from a dentist and didn't need em, there's probably 25 left in the bottle and they're expired.. still potent though.
Dentists don't bother me too much, except for the time a dentist was pulling a wisdom tooth, he practically had to stand on my face  Grin, then the pliers slipped and smacked another tooth, I though he broke the other one but I guess it was ok  question that one sucked  tickedoff

Old scripts just get weaker, not poisonous.   (though I'm not sure about antibiotics, which generally they tell you take the whole script, whether you want to or not)

Only problem with those Vicodin, you don't sh!t for a month.

My first two wisdom teeth, I was put under with an IV.  When I woke up afterword and looked in the mirror, I his Keds hi-tops tread pattern was still on my forehead.   
I never had the sh!t problem from Vicodin, mostly they just make me surly.. don't know why, I don't like the Vike.

My first two wisdom teeth, I was put under with an IV.  When I woke up afterword and looked in the mirror, I his Keds hi-tops tread pattern was still on my forehead
 Grin
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