So I put my new pipes on my bike tonight. Bub Jug Huggers. They look damn sweet, I must say! Way better than the dual water heaters that came stock. But as beautiful as the pipes are, they are frighteningly loud. Waaaay louder than I expected. How loud is frighteningly loud? Lets just say that once it was time to fire it up, I decided not to take any chances on angering my immediate neighbors - wife included, especially with it being around 11PM and all. So I rolled it half way down the block and onto the side street, and turned it over.
I **** my pants and almost dropped the bike. That's how f-ing loud it is.
I'm no stranger to loud. I just sold a Ducati with Termi pipes to buy the VTX, and that Duc could quack ferociously loud. But DAMN! Bubs on a VTX is a different beast altogether!
Thankfully, the manufacturer makes something called stealth baffles, which I am promptly ordering when I'm done typing this message. The annoying thing is that the guy I got 'em from, a dealer who pulled them off a used bike, said they were baffled. I'm not so sure these fellas know what baffles are, after all, they did ship the pipes unwrapped in styrofoam peanuts, which got lodged in between the pipes and heat shields, requiring quite a bit of time to fish out with picks and bent coat hangers.
What's more scary is that supposedly, these pipes are considered mid-level loud. I can't imagine that, honestly.
(I'll post a photo and maybe a video soon. I would have tonight, but it took too long to clean myself up.)
I **** my pants and almost dropped the bike. That's how f-ing loud it is.
I'm no stranger to loud. I just sold a Ducati with Termi pipes to buy the VTX, and that Duc could quack ferociously loud. But DAMN! Bubs on a VTX is a different beast altogether!
Thankfully, the manufacturer makes something called stealth baffles, which I am promptly ordering when I'm done typing this message. The annoying thing is that the guy I got 'em from, a dealer who pulled them off a used bike, said they were baffled. I'm not so sure these fellas know what baffles are, after all, they did ship the pipes unwrapped in styrofoam peanuts, which got lodged in between the pipes and heat shields, requiring quite a bit of time to fish out with picks and bent coat hangers.
What's more scary is that supposedly, these pipes are considered mid-level loud. I can't imagine that, honestly.
(I'll post a photo and maybe a video soon. I would have tonight, but it took too long to clean myself up.)