So the people on the other side of the shopping center parking lot can hear my choice of rap music over the loud pipes.

When I get a Harley. Some day.

Loud Pipes Save Lives! Well, that's how the saying goes anyway...

Harley-Davidson is the most efficient way to turn gasoline into noise without the embarrassing side effect of horsepower.

Yeah it's turned into a thing, how loud can you get your radio, not just Harley either, sport bikes, metric cruisers, Indians, if you can put a BT Amp and speakers on it.

Most of the Gold Wing riders that do this are playing Sinatra or Big Band stuff though....

You should see the systems the young guys put on sport bikes, unreal where they figure out how to install speakers, lots of speakers.

Used to be that Main Street at BikeWeek was problematic for loud pipes, now it's white guys dressed like Eminem playing hard core rap, cops said they can't do anything about it, something about 1A and freedom to express or something.

This came about with the popularity of the touring/bagger class...

Apparently, being loud risks dehydration so don't stop with merely pipes and an amplifier. You need to put a cup holder on the handlebars large enough to hold a Big Gulp.

Be sure to post progress pics so we can follow along...when you get a Harley that is...

Annoying noise running down the street.

Loud pipes....powerful music system.....Why did this suddenly come to mind....

Wheels man, don’t forget the wheels to go with the killer stereo.

But, do you complete the set and have the frontal lobotomy to go with it?

I would not want anything to drown out the potato, potato, potato sound.

I don’t quite understand the loud as hell sound systems on the Harleys. The loud pipes don’t bother me but the blaring music is odd.

I love listening to everyone else's music or how to say you're an idiot without saying you're an idiot.
Just sarcasm and certainly not a response to you, Richard.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
I don’t quite understand the loud as hell sound systems on the Harleys. The loud pipes don’t bother me but the blaring music is odd.

The OP didn't say music - he said RAP.

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Originally posted by synthplayer:

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Originally posted by stickman428:
I don’t quite understand the loud as hell sound systems on the Harleys. The loud pipes don’t bother me but the blaring music is odd.

The OP didn't say music - he said RAP.

I have yet to encounter a Harley blaring anything that I would consider to be good music. It’s about 50/50 awful rap or country they blast out in my neck of the woods.

Well, this old grouch will go ya one better: The concept of music on a motorcycle completely evades me.

On a couple of levels, actually:

1. If it's loud enough for you to hear through your helmet and over the motorcycle/road/wind noise, it's loud enough to cause hearing damage. For the rider and the spectators.

2. There's enough shit out there to distract me from the cagers trying to kill me as it is, I don't need any help in that department.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
So the people on the other side of the shopping center parking lot can hear my choice of rap music over the loud pipes.

When I get a Harley. Some day.

One day I'm going to grow up to be as cool as you. (Will be, when you get a Harley.)

I agree PHPaul. The concept of a loud sound system on a motorcycle is in my eyes completely idiotic. I’m beginning to see more and more Harleys with loud as hell sound systems.

We will know society has totally lost it when the sport bikes follow suit.

Years ago I bought a 750 Honda . One of my co workers( a Harley rider ) tried to insult my bike . He said , " It's cute but it ain't a Harley " . I told him that was my favorite thing about it ..

I miss my Harley but I didn't have a stereo. I did have slip ons installed but they weren't obnoxious, just a nice tone.

I have friends with the Road and Street Glides that have upgraded stereos and full exhaust.
To each his/her own.