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SV650rules · 15-12-20, 06:18 PM

Bright lights save lives... loud pipes normally affect people behind and alongside bike, good lights are seen by people you are approaching. loud exhausts may warn pedestrians, but in this age of people walking and cycling with headphones on, completely unaware of their surroundings I doubt it.. all that loud pipes do is get bikers a bad name.

I was shocked that if you click the 'improve your visibility ' link in the article that 'ride in day time with high beam on' and 'fit auxiliary lights' are numbers 6 and 7 in the list, when they should be 1 and 2..

I have noticed auxiliary lights on bikes before I even saw the bike, and certainly before I heard it.

15-12-20, 06:18 PM	#4
SV650rules Member Mega Poster Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Shropshire UK Posts: 1,363	Re: Loud pipes redux Bright lights save lives... loud pipes normally affect people behind and alongside bike, good lights are seen by people you are approaching. loud exhausts may warn pedestrians, but in this age of people walking and cycling with headphones on, completely unaware of their surroundings I doubt it.. all that loud pipes do is get bikers a bad name. I was shocked that if you click the 'improve your visibility ' link in the article that 'ride in day time with high beam on' and 'fit auxiliary lights' are numbers 6 and 7 in the list, when they should be 1 and 2.. I have noticed auxiliary lights on bikes before I even saw the bike, and certainly before I heard it. __________________ 2016 SV650 AL7 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain Last edited by SV650rules; 15-12-20 at 06:25 PM.