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I hate freaking Harley's

3K views 47 replies 28 participants last post by  Joe S. 
#1 ·
not because they "are Harley's" but because when I'm working on an air conditioner I can hear them going down the road~~~~~~and I'm working:bow::mad1:

it's kind of annoying :joke:;)
 
#28 ·
H.D. are loud and SLOW :shrug:and whats really funny is when a guy has loud pipes and a radio blasting you know when he is on the highway all he can hear noise
 
#29 ·
i live about 1/2mile from the 202 San Tan freeway in Gilbert AZ.

i can easily hear the open pipes on V-twin scooters and the high pitch whine of the sport bikes with after market exhaust, diesel pickups with after market large exhaust
 
#30 ·
I love the looks of Harley's, particularly, the Ultra. However, the noisey loud exhausts of the majority of them is offensive to me, to say the least.

However, yesterday, while riding my old GL1200 down the road, a beautiful blue Ultra slowly passed me, very quiet, very impressive, plus, it got me to thinking, just maybe, but probably not.:22yikes:
 
#31 ·
Sound

I ride my Ultra the same way I rode my Wings over the years,this just sounds a lot better and its not loud just deep with a presence.
 
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#32 ·
A stock Harley has a nice throaty sound. Straight pipes on any motorcycles are number one, ILLEGAL and number two the riders who do this are trying to draw attention to themselves by saying look at me I have a black t shirt on and wait I have a doo rag tied to my head and wait again I am playing bike pirate. Why else do they constantly blip their throttles at idle? These people are LOSERS and hurt the sport. No concern for anything but making noise. Many times the pipes are not even jetted for optimum performance and hurt the power curves of their big bad 75 hp outdated bikes.
That's what the jerkoff mechanic tried to do on my vstar when I had pipes put on. I spent like 90.00 for jets and the turd didn't even put em in. After I jumped his azz I went home and installed them myself. Nice to see that building setting empty now.
 
#33 ·
A stock Harley has a nice throaty sound. Straight pipes on any motorcycles are number one, ILLEGAL and number two the riders who do this are trying to draw attention to themselves by saying look at me I have a black t shirt on and wait I have a doo rag tied to my head and wait again I am playing bike pirate. Why else do they constantly blip their throttles at idle? These people are LOSERS and hurt the sport. No concern for anything but making noise. Many times the pipes are not even jetted for optimum performance and hurt the power curves of their big bad 75 hp outdated bikes.
Maybe we don't agree on the marathon riding concept, but this we do agree on. I work like 25 ft off a major road chock full of Harleys, and would love to have a shotgun some days. Don't have air conditioning here so my door is wide open adding to the agony and there's a light so they sit there blipping their throttle the entire time. Get 10 or 20 of them together it's like torture listening to them. The worst thing though is there's a cemetary a couple miles up the road, when any of the douchbags gets killed, I presume in a motorcycle wreck, they all get together for the funeral and ride up the road together. Rest in peace, at least the deceased can I guess, the rest suffer.
 
#34 ·
I was just on the ride for prostate cancer in canada and sure enough a harley went by and rapped it and 3 car alarms went off. i had to laugh. but out of the two thousand bikes that went on the ride i would say only a handfull were loud.
 
#40 ·
I like my mellow pipes on my Ultra.
:agree:although mine is a Classic....

I don't care for the very loud exhaust either, on HD's or metrics ( they seem worse), or loud sportbikes, loud stereo, trucks etc....getting to be an old fart I guess...maybe that's way Goldwings don't like Harley's and their exhaust, Old Farts.......:lol:
they forget we were all young and different at one time.....

those damm whippersnappers:p
 
#43 ·
Alot of little cars here have after market mufflers that are more annoying than loud bikes!:22yikes:
Kids think the muffler turns their little Honda into a stock car!
HUH ??? How can it still be a stock car if modified ??? I would think they were trying to make it sound like a race car :lol:







JMHO :cool:
 
#44 ·
what "old junk":confused: I figure every few years everyone in Florida gets a new a/c, courtesy of Mother nature and "Named wind storms":lol::lol::lol::lol:
Snowbirds are tooooo tight to part with the money to upgrade them. They just want to patch them up for another year. Tightwads. I worked on one yesterday that was installed in 1955 and still there rumbling along. York R12 converted to R22.
 
#45 ·
Snowbirds are tooooo tight to part with the money to upgrade them. They just want to patch them up for another year. Tightwads. I worked on one yesterday that was installed in 1955 and still there rumbling along. York R12 converted to R22.
:22yikes::22yikes::22yikes::22yikes: HOLY CRAP! I thought people around here were tight wads? whats the S.E.E.R. rating on a 1955 unit??? minus 10:eek:4: BWHAHAHAHAHAH
 
#46 ·
#47 ·
Maybe we don't agree on the marathon riding concept, but this we do agree on. I work like 25 ft off a major road chock full of Harleys, and would love to have a shotgun some days. Don't have air conditioning here so my door is wide open adding to the agony and there's a light so they sit there blipping their throttle the entire time. Get 10 or 20 of them together it's like torture listening to them. The worst thing though is there's a cemetary a couple miles up the road, when any of the douchbags gets killed, I presume in a motorcycle wreck, they all get together for the funeral and ride up the road together. Rest in peace, at least the deceased can I guess, the rest suffer.
Shotgun? Douchbags?? Getting killed???
:shock:
 
#48 ·
Maybe we don't agree on the marathon riding concept, but this we do agree on. I work like 25 ft off a major road chock full of Harleys, and would love to have a shotgun some days. Don't have air conditioning here so my door is wide open adding to the agony and there's a light so they sit there blipping their throttle the entire time. Get 10 or 20 of them together it's like torture listening to them. The worst thing though is there's a cemetary a couple miles up the road, when any of the douchbags gets killed, I presume in a motorcycle wreck, they all get together for the funeral and ride up the road together. Rest in peace, at least the deceased can I guess, the rest suffer.
Might want to consider a little anger management counseling.:thumbup:
 
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