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(11-23-2021, 11:45 PM)j3gq_imp Wrote: Did a sound check for y'all today. A quiet, winding country road with no traffic at all was repeatedly asking for 4000 - 5000 on the rpm gauge, in 3rd and 4th, the open shield, and cold air helped acute hearing. If anybody thinks that this 2017 EX sounds like a sewing machine ...  man, ... it doesn't. Honda promised better sound with that newer model, and they delivered. You can go it quiet if you like, and your neighbors will appreciate your nightly returns from the bar, but you can get all the sound you like if that's what you want. Not a brutal Harley sound, instead a deep Honda roar, which beats anything I have heard from a 750 Four - or a Kawa, and it comes with exactly the right vibrations under your skin. Couldn't agree more!
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I know quiet pipes are good, but I started to get a little weak recently. I test rode a new Bonneville T100 last weekend, and the sound was so much deeper and throatier than my sewing machine 2012 that I had to ask twice to confirm that the bike I rode had stock pipes.
I started cruising the net for Bonneville exhausts. Several options are available. I noticed that Bassani makes slip-ons. The sound clip on their website sounds pretty cool, and I know those guys...
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Near where I live, there is a dog park right next to an outdoor recreation area frequented by young mothers pushing strollers and elderly folks feeding the birds.
I like riding past that area and having people smile and wave at me.
I also have a Honda Shadow 750 that is fairly quiet, but I have to *TRY* to be quiet on the Shadow. The CB1100 is quiet.
I agree that some folks simply don't appreciate the CB1100 for what it actually is.
Those who are looking for an exhaust note, or even something more throaty, are probably not listening for cardinals, finches, and warblers. Nor are they seeing the neighborhood Yorkies and Labradors cower when they ride by.
I do notice the neighborhood dogs don't like my Shadow nearly as much as the CB1100.
While I ride for my own edification, I do enjoy happy neighbors too. And it's nice to be able to hear the birds.
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I like that too, Yata-Garasu. Coming home each day, I ride through a park (a shortcut that removes three long traffic lights), and then through the gate to my condo complex and a long winding road to my street. I move slow through the park to avoid the errant soccer balls that perpetually spit out into the road, and slow through my complex for the benefit of the neighbors. I get plenty of waves, and particularly dig little kids in strollers, straining to see the motorcycle go by. I give the kids a wave - I dunno, maybe a guy on a motorcycle is as cool as an astronaut to a little kid.
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(12-02-2021, 03:17 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: I like that too, Yata-Garasu. Coming home each day, I ride through a park (a shortcut that removes three long traffic lights), and then through the gate to my condo complex and a long winding road to my street. I move slow through the park to avoid the errant soccer balls that perpetually spit out into the road, and slow through my complex for the benefit of the neighbors. I get plenty of waves, and particularly dig little kids in strollers, straining to see the motorcycle go by. I give the kids a wave - I dunno, maybe a guy on a motorcycle is as cool as an astronaut to a little kid.
... and don't forget the kids on the small bicycles. They strain too.
Heck, the adult kids in the blacked-out, lowered Subarus strain too ... and provide some sort of favourable rappish hand gesture and tongue sound.
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My BMW R1200C sounded like a sewing machine. It developed a vacuum leak around the air intake once, and then it sounded like a sewing machine with a lisp.
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(12-02-2021, 06:03 AM)tommymck_imp Wrote: My BMW R1200C sounded like a sewing machine. It developed a vacuum leak around the air intake once, and then it sounded like a sewing machine with a lisp.
Ha! My last R1200 sounded like a sewing machine. The original owner later handed me a Leo Vince pipe that he had been meaning to install. Went from a sewing machine to a tractor.
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I narcissistically recorded the sound of my 2017MY EX to get a feel for what others experienced = very pleasant sound indeed.
https://youtu.be/5DwZd3W56iw
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(12-02-2021, 05:52 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: I narcissistically recorded the sound of my 2017MY EX to get a feel for what others experienced = very pleasant sound indeed.
https://youtu.be/5DwZd3W56iw
Dang Tev, Great video. What a pretty location. Surprised there is still so much green around there. I guess they don't call it the emerald isle for nothing.
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