Without opening another can of worms about helmets or no helmets.
We all agree that helmets do in fact save lives.
I hope we are all open minded enough, to know under some circumstances helmets kill riders, that If in fact hadn’t been wearing a helmet would of walked away from the scene of the accident with minor injuries.
Now we go on wearing our lids as required by law, knowing if by the wrong circumstances come your way it’s gonna kill us. But we argue that if helmet use, saves 100 and takes 1 it’s a small but acceptable ratio.
My argument is loud pipes do save lives, and I’m not standing up on my soapbox telling everyone that you all must have loud pipes, in fact far from it. But what I am saying is by my own experience as a professional rider, courier, that loud pipes whether they attract a negative reaction from drivers or a positive reaction, at least the driver is aware of my presence. And as with acceptable ratios if loud pipes save just 1 rider in the world per year, that’s one less needless death, of a friend, father, mother, brother, sister, son, or daughter.
As I have stated in previous threads about loud pipes, there is not statistics on near misses, and no numbers on real, accident being averted by the fact a driver has become aware at the last moment of a riders presence because of load pipes. So all I have to go by is my over 1 million miles and 30 years in the saddle experience. And that tells me loud pipes do in fact save lives, and drivers on my road side tops, tell me so. That’s no university study, that’s no academic cod’s wallop, that’s no scientific study, that’s out there in the real world experience.
"Gee mate I didn't see ya coming but I heard ya"
