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Offline Damn Potholes

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Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« on: May 20, 2011, 08:43:13 AM »
Has anyone run across an aftermarket exhaust decibel comparison?  I would love to add some horsepower but not interested in making the bike too much louder.  My Buell ruined loud pipes for me.  I got really tired of having ringing ears and headaches.
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Offline Conrad

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Re: Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2011, 08:47:43 AM »
I don't know about the others but Area P's slip-on is at least twice as loud as the stocker at idle but once into the upper RPM range it's the same.

http://www.areapnolimits.com/products/Slip-On-Exhaust-Kawasaki-Concours-14-2008.php
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Re: Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2011, 02:35:42 PM »
Leo Vince has a graph on  their web page, compares their muffler to stock, with and without the "silencer".
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Re: Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2011, 04:38:36 PM »
Quote from: Damn Potholes on May 20, 2011, 08:43:13 AM
My Buell ruined loud pipes for me.  I got really tired of having ringing ears and headaches.
And everyone around you will thank you too...

(To me, powerful also has to mean QUIET.  Of course, I am in the minority; but at least less so in the Concours realm.)
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Re: Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2011, 04:55:24 PM »
+1

Gotta be silent like!
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Re: Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2011, 04:58:18 PM »
My farts tend to by very quiet like, but yet very powerful.
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Re: Aftermarket Decibel Comparison?
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2011, 05:57:59 PM »
Quote from: Pokey on May 20, 2011, 04:58:18 PM
My farts tend to by very quiet like, but yet very powerful.

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