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The only way my bike would set off a car alarm is if I ran it into the freakin car! lol I've really gotta drill out my baffles, but to do that I've gotta get a job where I don't leave at 5:45 in the morning. Neighbors don't like me enough as it is with stock pipes!
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Mine has been known to set off alarms when I blip the throttle in the city. The sound just seems to echo off of the buildings and gets really loud.

m1a1dvr wrote:Mine has been known to set off alarms when I blip the throttle in the city. The sound just seems to echo off of the buildings and gets really loud.

Yeah, when my Vision's exhaust is in a tunnel or between buildings it sounds so much meaner than it is. I sometimes wonder how loud it would be riding a big cruiser with straight pipes in those places

Yeah I set them off sometimes. I get a grin on my face when I do.

Also, I agree with the "in the city" thing. my bike echos off all the buildings and makes for a much meaner sound. If people say something I just explain is because of the buildings...just something you have to deal with in city life.

When I had my Super Glide I had Vance & Hines Straight Shots without the baffles,and when the NYC and NJ summertime tourists were up on the weekends I use to set off almost every car alarm I rode past. Talk about being loud and echoing off buildings,most of the buildings are 3 stories tall and only about 50 feet from one side of the street to the other

That's fantastic! I was reading this post yesterday and realized I needed to take the bike out for a short ride since I decided not to winterize it.We can talk about that decision later. I had never set an alarm into its cycle but yesterday there was a car parked two spots down and while I warming up the bike it started to chirp. I had to keep going. . . I kept hitting the throttle until I finally got the alarm to go full blast. It was definitely awesome. I did however get right out of there after I set it off, into the cold, cold, cold wind. No matter how many layers I had on it didn't matter. BTW, I have Vance & Hines slashcuts on my 05 M50.

ofblong wrote:
1. most car alarms only sequence 3 times and then shut off sorry to rain on your parade on that one.

well, doesn't take a wizard to realize that car alarms don't go on and on until the end of time, spock i don't know how you read that into the message, but hmmm, you also seem to miss the gist of jcvipers note, because 1. "the factory" alarm installer is a person setting the alarm (or a person setting up another system to calibrate the alarm), and that person is just as qualified to be a dimwit as the at-home installer. You aren't correcting any misinformation, although you seem to believe you are... gee, sorry to rain on your parade.

my vtx has no problems setting off alarms, even though i try (almost all of the time) to be a model biker and behave.

however, there are times when i'll tearass down a street in first leaving car horns blaring, dogs barking, children crying, and old people thinking the armageddon near.