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The second reason is that I am kind of enjoying the stock sewing machine sound of the engine. It is kind of neat to blast off down a highway running through the gears without making any noise and attaining impressive rates of acceleration. Kind of like the starship Enterprise blasting through space in hyper drive.
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EXACTLY how i felt and you're the first person i've heard so far that felt the same. However, like me i bet you'll change your mind about it. Not so much because you want louder. But because after a while the gear whine and tappet noise, which is about all you really hear, starts getting on the nerves a bit and you start noticing other bike that have a nice growl to them. Then you beging to want that growl, but still not loud....only loud enough to hear it and cover up all those annoying engine noises. Unfortunatly i'm not sure any of the pipes available are really anywhere near as quiet enough to just cover up the engine noises and let you have a good tone. Even the ones i ordered which are supposedly not nearly as loud as many supposedly get rather loud under accelleration. Anyway, i got them for the perfromance gains more than the sound.
But yep, i know exactly what you mean about the way the bike seems to accellerate with no effort because of the lack of sound. I've always felt that louder bikes seem to feel as tho they accellerate slower due to the perception that the loudness suggests more accelleration than is actually taking place, and makes it feel slower. But now that i wear earplugs i don't think i'll have a problem with that.
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2005 Speedmaster, Neon Blue, Thunderbike pipes, snorkel removed, UNI filter, drilled airbox, 130 mains, TBS needles.(2 shims) And speaking of Speedmasters,
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