Staintune Exhaust

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Has anyone ridden with the Staintune at highway speeds for some distance? Any droning? That to me is one of the downsides to aftermarket exhaust, the dreaded droning...

Tripod, I put about 500 miles on my Staintune equipped bike this weekend. However, I always wear ear plugs on the highway unless I know I won't be at highway speeds for very long. I could still hear the Staintune with the plugs in, but it wasn't much louder than the wind noise or whooshing sound you still hear with ear plugs in. I could see the exhaust being a little wearing on a longer trip without ear plugs, but then again the wind noise to the helmet would be much louder, so I'm honestly not sure what it would be like on a longer trip without ear protection. I have taken the bike on shorter highway jaunts without ear plugs and didn't mind the exhaust sound, but then again, that was maybe 10 miles or so at 55-60 mph.

In any case, in my opinion you are crazy to take longer trips without hearing protection, so the exhaust is plenty quiet with the ear plugs in, more like a background sound than a drone.

As an aside, the worst part of the trip was that I had a 40 mph headwind on most of the way up, and a 30 mph headwind on the way back (the wind shifted by the time I rode back). It was just brutal. I did get a hell of an upper body workout, however. Never again without some kind of wind screen, that's for sure!