As already said, there's Loud... and there's obnoxious... but I must add that there's another. The only way to describe it is !?!?!
While riding the new bike along a stretch of 65mph highway next to one of the rivers South of Fairbanks, I couldn't help but hear another MC with what could only be described as
LOUD pipes. While checking mirrors and the road ahead I couldn't see anything that would be making such sounds. Not having cared for the last song that was on the radio I had the volume turned down so I could enjoy the new sounds from the gutted stock pipes on the Ultra. They sound pretty good, and know that I had to have just barely heard one of those lame commercials on the radio, because there shouldn't be any way that I just heard another bike.
As I was approaching a left curve, the sound from the other bike was just getting louder and louder...
Turns out, as I was rounding the curve, so was this old 'rat' bike... I could hear him from more than a 1/4 mile away, coming at me from the direction I was heading.
This guy is either completely deaf, or has some of the best ear plugs money can buy. It got so loud as he was passing me going the other direction that I thought I was riding one of those Goldwing things with all their whisper quiet exhaust systems.
It was only after we both got to the other side of the curve that I could again hear my own bike again.
Anyway, just my thoughts...
Ride Responsibly, on the Defense, and within your own limits and everything should be fine