400EX Exhaust
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Why do you want the loudest pipe???
Our sport is under enough flak as it is without people purposely putting the loudest pipes on their bikes. That's a sure way to get the remaining riding areas closed.
If you talk to a "greenie" or other ATV or motorcycle hater, one of their biggest complaints is NOISE. Please do us all a favor and encourage the manufacturers to make us quiet pipes that produce power by not buying the loudest pipes. Power and noise are not synonymous.
To the guy running open pipes: WHY???? it has been shown, time and time again that unless you are a Nitromethane burning 6000hp drag racer, open pipes generally produce less power than a properly designed muffled system. Even I, being a lover of exhaust noises, and a person that sometimes goes out of his way to listen to the exhaust note of a cool car or bike, absolutely hate people running open pipes, they do not sound "cool", they just have an extremely obnoxious cackle that is just plain not necessary and offensive to all...
Our sport is under enough flak as it is without people purposely putting the loudest pipes on their bikes. That's a sure way to get the remaining riding areas closed.
If you talk to a "greenie" or other ATV or motorcycle hater, one of their biggest complaints is NOISE. Please do us all a favor and encourage the manufacturers to make us quiet pipes that produce power by not buying the loudest pipes. Power and noise are not synonymous.
To the guy running open pipes: WHY???? it has been shown, time and time again that unless you are a Nitromethane burning 6000hp drag racer, open pipes generally produce less power than a properly designed muffled system. Even I, being a lover of exhaust noises, and a person that sometimes goes out of his way to listen to the exhaust note of a cool car or bike, absolutely hate people running open pipes, they do not sound "cool", they just have an extremely obnoxious cackle that is just plain not necessary and offensive to all...
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Yes, the quad in the sand dunes is me. The "Batavia track" pics are of me and a friend both on our 400EXs, "Chris's track" pics are me. I'll be posting more to the "Chris's track" section in the next day or so....
I now have TCS front shocks, but most of the pics were when I my bike was completely stock. I will be sending my rear off in the next day or two to get the TCS treatment (I bought a spare rear so I could still ride )
In my opinion suspension is the first modification a person should consider to their machine...
BTW, I raced an AMA national harescamble this weekend and my "stock" (airbox mods and appropriate jetting) bike was pulling piped bikes in the straights, put a smile on my face ....
Thanks!
I now have TCS front shocks, but most of the pics were when I my bike was completely stock. I will be sending my rear off in the next day or two to get the TCS treatment (I bought a spare rear so I could still ride )
In my opinion suspension is the first modification a person should consider to their machine...
BTW, I raced an AMA national harescamble this weekend and my "stock" (airbox mods and appropriate jetting) bike was pulling piped bikes in the straights, put a smile on my face ....
Thanks!