I understand I will not change your mind at all, but keep in mind that loud pipes don't only piss off "hippies", they piss of a lot of folks (good neighbors, etc.) who otherwise like bikes. Do they prevent accidents? That hasn't been my experience. My best friend has been hit 3 times on his loud Harley. One other issue, unless your bike's engine has been modified and tuned to run at a given RPM with no mufflers it will run better with mufflers at every rpm. Some back pressure is needed at certain engine speeds. A modified engine may run fine within a narrow rpm range without mufflers, but even that engine will lose ooomph at lower rpm where most street riding is done.
My old BSA with a factory competition engine I bought from Gary Nixon was about as loud as an atom bomb, but it only had superior power up near readline. I installed shorty mufflers (still not particularly quiet) and low end grunt improved. Ed
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