I must be getting older

[Massimo]

After years of noise with Harley, I appreciate the silence of the F6. *The police did not look at me anymore. Almost sorry. But I hear the radio at low volume.
I no longer want to change parts as when I was on the harley

[austin_tech]

I actually got sick of the wind noise from a half helmet this summer and went back to my full-face. When it's hot I enjoy the shorty windshield, but riding 70 on the highway for any period of time without a full face really started grinding my ears.

I like the choppy sound of a V-twin but I also remember getting sick of that quick. I think I'm getting too damned old my darned self

[53driver]

On getting older.....

I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair.
She turned to me and asked, 'Are you having it catered'?

Just before the funeral services, the undertaker
Came up to the very elderly widow and asked,
'How old was your husband?'
'96,' she replied: 'Two years younger than me'
'So you're 98,' the undertaker commented.
She responded, 'Not hardly worth going home, is it?'

Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman:
'And what do you think is the best thing
About being 104?' the reporter asked.
She simply replied,
'No peer pressure.'

For Steve 0080 and other Florida riders:
I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,
New knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes
I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,
Take 40 different medications that
Make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation;
Hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,
I still have my Florida driver's license.

An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and
Told her preacher she had two final requests.
First, she wanted to be cremated, and second,
She wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart.
'Wal-Mart?' the preacher exclaimed. 'Why Wal-Mart?'
'Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.'

My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.

Know how to prevent sagging?
Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.

It's scary when you start making the same noises
As your coffee maker.

These days about half the stuff
In my shopping cart says,
'For fast relief.'

THE SENILITY PRAYER:
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.

[XKnight]

I give years of working the flight line credit for my Tinnitus. I did start wearing ear plugs when I started where a half shell. I have had some extremely loud bikes but I think the wind noise permitted by a half shell does more damage than the loud pipes.

Wind noise, loud pipes, rock concerts, playing in a band, shooting guns, has all added up over the years to cause me hearing problems now. I figure if I can hear the pipes over the wind noise on the highway then it's going to cause hearing damage eventually. Any prolonged sound exposure over 85 decibels will eventually cause hearing damage. Most aftermarket Harley pipes are well over 85 decibels.

[sshake1905]

I don't know...but, when I bought my F6B in July.... I had put 52,000 miles in a VTX 1300 over the last 4 summer riding seasons and it had loud Cobra drag pipes on it for all 52 K......
I found the stock F6 mufflers too quiet...I like to hear the engine at all speeds...and I liked the look and low drone of the Cobra 6 into 6 mufflers....
I put them on before I had 500 miles on the bike and I love them....not loud and I can hear this honey purrr and any speed....but, at 65, I liked the quieter ride

Four things are guaranteed in Life.....Birth, Change, Taxes and Death !

[vstar09]

Never thought I would But really like the stock pipes....to many years of loud pipes....Really like listen to the tunes going down the road....I used to tell my riding buddy Id hear the radio on his Gold Wing before I'd see him....He tells me that now......

[Madmax]

Wind noise, loud pipes, rock concerts, playing in a band, shooting guns, has all added up over the years to cause me hearing problems now. I figure if I can hear the pipes over the wind noise on the highway then it's going to cause hearing damage eventually. Any prolonged sound exposure over 85 decibels will eventually cause hearing damage. Most aftermarket Harley pipes are well over 85 decibels.

Same boat and have been wearing ear plugs for the past few years , but with the F6B if I'm just riding locaally and keeping it under 50 even with the vance & hines pipes the bike is pretty quite for my ears but thats with the wing wind screen.
I still have the loud bikes , no harleys just Vmax's with UFO dragstars will do the job .