Yes Tom ..   
      
      
    TW> They would put yuo in the Minority it seems .Almost eveeryoen here riuns   
    TW> a Strait Pipe with NO baffles on their motorcycle. And let you tell you   
    TW> those Harleys are LOUD.   
    TW> I kinda like the Shrill Scream of the Crotch Rockets though.   
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    TW>  X SLMR 2.1a X Typo Tom Strkes Again   
      
   Yep, still almost always straight pipes here and you bet a hog can make a lot   
   of noise, even WAY out in the field, chortle!   
      
   Back in the 1960-1965 or so years I rode a bike because it was the best way to   
   keep from going broke buying gasoline for my 1952 Chevy coupe with a Dual quad   
   4-barrel Chevy FI Corvette engine in it, grin!  And I'll almost bet that I am   
   the only person you woule likely meet that has ridden a BMW R60 so hard full   
   throttle so many hours that I even wore it out so bad that it locked the   
   engine with full oil still in the crankcase!  For example, I rode it from   
   Lordsburg, New Mexico to Bryan, Texas one night in 11 hours and thirty   
   minutes.  As well as over and over from Houston Hobby Airport to College   
   Station, Texas in about an hour or so, grin.  That was before they had radar   
   guns, grin.   
      
   The engine, roller bearings and all, lasted just over 85,000 miles this way   
   for Mikey Dog....   
      
   Well as you know part of the reason one could do that was that the BMW bikes   
   all had real good mufflers.  They were VERY quiet even full throttle when you   
   would be lying down flat on the buddy seat with the throttle jammed wide open   
   and your head just peeked up squinting over the handle bars.  It never quit   
   amazing me that all my friends were riding hogs.  And time after time the cops   
   would wham them and give them tickets, but never even heard where I had gone   
   when this sort of drag race romped off.   
      
   Chuckle.   
      
   Mike N117C at 1:117/100   
      
      
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