# Another one taken down by a fucking retard! **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [June 26, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/another-one-taken-down-by-a-fucking-retard/245034 "2009-06-26T15:25:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![Fn\_Skanks](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fn_skanks/32/6308_2.png) [@Fn\_Skanks](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fn_Skanks)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/another-one-taken-down-by-a-fucking-retard/245034/47 "2009-07-08T07:59:18Z")
> [@Tranny shops](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tranny-shops/20150/9): > > Loud pipes are all well and good, but unless you run straight pipes on a harley, people won’t hear you all the time. Especially those in front of you, while they are chatting on the phone or not looking both ways when pulling into the street, or blasting music or whatever else they do that distracts them from driving and causes accidents . Between all the regislation cranking down on db leves on exhausts, bans on aftermarket stuff in certain places and the moves toward electric bikes, you just can’t rely on making noise to stay safe on the road. fuck harley’s and they’re open pipes. completely unnecessary if you ask me. they put those pipes on there. its not like it came that way from the factory. i’m all for loud exhausts, but ones that sound at least somewhat good. a popping, spitting, sloppy sounding harley, should be pulled over and ticketed for a loud exhaust, just like everyone else on the road. people almost hit me in my car everyday from being stupid, out to lunch, etc. almost all of my exhausts are loud. no where near the db of a harley, but it doesn’t matter to law enforcement. its one thing if the pipe(s) are baffled, or have a muffler/ spark arrestor, but when you slap straight through pipes on a harley, you aren’t serving any purpose other than annoying the fuck out of people. i know loud pipes save lives, but with how oblivious people already are to motorcyles, and other traffic, pedestrians, etc… it isn’t much of an argument. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/another-one-taken-down-by-a-fucking-retard/245034)._