Choice of pipes

[tomk]

I have the V&H's and they were loud to me but not annoying. After several newspaper articles about bikers being ticketed with loud exhausts by certain cities in my area (they're looking at the pipe serial numbers if the pipes are under the legal 80db limit!), I decided to tone them down.

After studying the fixes on Gadget's page, it dawned on me that they're just putting a restriction in the pipe baffles, I thought of a cheap, quick, reversable test fix.

My fix was to tack weld Home Depot $9.00, 3" dia. stainless steel sheetmetal drain covers with a bunch of 1/4" holes in them over the inlet side of the baffle (tacked so, just in case, I could get them off in a hurry). Perfect. Very little power loss from the restriction (if any) and a deeper, throaty sound. Some of the blah when letting off the throttle is there but a lot quieter.