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  LOL @ OJ's comment 'a catectomy'     When I had my bike (a Honda CM 125cc) no one knew I was there, even to the point of trying to move into the spot I was in, in a traffic queue. However, when the exhaust developed a HOLE in it it sounded like a wannabe Harley and made car driver's heads turn. It was nice to know that others KNEW I was there.    In answer to the original question...it depends on the circs, if a bike with loud pipes is being ridden up and down a residential street, several times a day, then NO I'd hate loud pipes.                                                                                                                                                                               

Have a set of oem headers with slip ons,nice n loud but work well, tried 1 set of straight thru's ,was too loud for me with an open facer on,helluva snarl off them,especially on the overrun,running Dynopower staggered just now,nice but kinda refind,just got a pair of oem headers without balance pipe to try some more slip ons out on,got 3 sets sitting, Short shots were very tasty,but sapped power,thats the problem with pipes the tuning and getting them to work with the engine,you modern pilots probably have the computers n chip that reset the mix etc automatically.

Harley dyna with screaming eagles.... that'll work!                                                                                                                                                                             

sp400 without even a downpipe running at about 4000 revs is quite audible as I can testify, pity it wouldnt get through an mot like that! .lol

                                                                                                                                                                             

I tried several setups on my Bonnie. First removed the silencers and only used the exhaust pipes. The sound was impressive, but the flames even more 
Then I used a saw on the original silencers and cut them just before the first baffle so I ended up with two totally open megaphones. I think this produced the loudest sound I could get from this bike. It didn't make my neighbours very happy though...
The best sounding bike I have now is the ྄ Guzzi V7Sport, it's not the loudness, but the sound itself. I also love the sound it makes when I close the throttle.                                                                                                                                                                              

I got a second set of pipes when I bought my Bonny, it came with the 'normal' quiet once and a set of loud ones.... obviously I changed to the second set and I loooove it... not quite like a Harley... but then it's a Triumph after all....                                                                                                                                                                             

Why would anyone want to sound like a harley????...  I like my stealth mode...