I’m happy with my birthday present. Today I mounted Cobra pipes on it.
These pipes are illegal except for racetrack use in California, but here in the mountains of Western North Carolina the opinions of California legislators are a source of great humor.
I mentioned in an earlier thread that motorcycle noise and jet noise were the sounds of freedom.
ReplyDeleteI guess California will start outlawing jet fighter exhaust pipes, too.
I recall when I was courting my wife, she and her parents lived under the departure routes from the Des Moines airport, which at the time was home to an air national guard squadron of F-100s. Flights of four would launch in burner, which was cool enough by itself, but they came out of burner over her house, and the quiet was...loud.
Not too tangentially related, the personages of the California government seem to object to the far more general noise of democracy.
Eric Hines
Oh, and happy birthday, even if a skosh late.
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Thank you.
DeleteYou wear ear plugs? Not for exhaust noise, but wind noise- it can be a real source of long term hearing damage. Most of the stuff I ever liked to do was noisy.. fly airplanes, play rock music, shoot guns, ride motorcycles, run equipment etc. It all adds up.
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Yeah, but not in a smart way. I wear ones that play music.
DeleteHopefully preaching to the choir, but be heads up with those. It's deucedly easy to run the music directly into your ears like that at comfortable sound levels but which levels are high enough to do damage.
ReplyDeleteEric Hines
Looks good!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday. That is a beautiful bike. Congrats!
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DeleteWell, almost everything is illegal here in California, everything fun and free, anyway. I always enjoy the illegal fireworks on Independence Day, and as we just had with the Dodgers winning the World Series- sounded like a massive gunfight city wide for several hours Wednesday night- So the spirit of freedom lives on in the people, even if the state does it's best to quash it.
ReplyDeleteHaving just been given an RX for hearing aids (and I'm less than a decade ahead of you, Grim), I second the warnings about hearing loss. I think for me it was a little of everything, but mostly tool noise from about a decade working in a wood and metal shop. A little protection goes a long way. Some earbuds play music but also allow pass through amplification (with dangerous level cut out) and those are a good solution to get a *little* protection with the music and the utility and safety of environmental awareness. I have a pair of Kenwood WS-A1 earbuds that I like a lot that do this, but may not be secure enough to ride with if no helmet is present to catch them if they slip out. Of course, then there's the wind noise issue...
That was me.
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