What? It isn’t a sport bike? Depends on what decade you’re talking about Lol. In 1970 the sport bike to have was a Triumph Bonneville 650. Put out 47 hp, no doubt at the crank, which means about 35 at the rear wheel. Tough to control such power back then.
At one time, I wanted the 2016+ NCX muffler just for it’s looks, but I’m told it is louder than the 2012-15 stock round can, thus I lost all interest in the newer style. I’ll gladly keep my stock ‘12 muffler. If there was an aftermarket muffler quieter than stock I would buy it, but at some point much of the motorcycle noise is engine/transmission mechanical, drive chain, and tire noise that you can’t get rid of. Then you also have wind noise to deal with.
How do the cyclists hear cars with quiet exhausts coming? Tire noise? I don’t read much about cars owners needing louder mufflers.
A post I made relative to this in the past. I still think it's funny!
www.nc700-forum.com
Harley reportedly designed some gear whine into the Livewire so it would sound like a motorcycle
Increased noise may have been Harley’s excuse for designing more complexity into the machine using gears. Zero motorcycles offer similar performance to the Livewire, but there are no gears anywhere on my Zero motorcycle; motor directly turns belt that turns wheel. I have not compared noise levels of Livewire and Zero, but I suspect the Zero sounds better, as in quieter, because it has fewer moving parts.
Interesting, but I definitely would not call the sound I heard from it being anything close to that of an ICE motorcycle.
I did not dispute your statement or say that it was not fact.
We’re probably on to something here. My Zero electric motorcycle has dual sport tires on it, so maybe that is why people and animals seem to hear me coming, even with no exhaust sound. Like dduelin wrote, loud tires save lives.
