STLbanshee Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 In need of a set of pipes, and I was looking into getting the dmc alien exhaust, but I heard that they fall apart, and if you get a six pack rack you cant put them on, and they make no top end at all..so I was thinking about lrd pipes that you can adjust, cause I ride trails, fields, dunes, and mud..everything, but what do lrds sound like, cause I wanna be loud, and be known, what do they look like on a bike, can you get the the plugs easy? What about burning your legs? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoin39 Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 First of all if you want it to be loud, quit riding atv's. You give the rest of us a bad rep, that's why there are so many land/riding areas being closed down!! Most pipes are plenty loud enough. OK, enough preaching, I would stay away of the adjustables because they are notorious for leaking at the seems. They do have a non-adjustable that is pretty good. Toomey, Paul Turner, Pro-circuit, FMF, are all good pipes, what you choose is up to you and your riding style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrolman808 Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 My adjustable ones are pretty good, no leaks. Sound good in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis's Banshee Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 Ran an LRD adj. on my '88R. Good fit and no leaks. Sounded good, but not obnoxious. Have FMF's on my shee now and can't complain about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
. Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 I love my LRD's. And all the hooplah about them leaking.....even if you dont silicone them, they'll leak for a little bit, and then it gets a build up of residue and they stop anyway after a couple hours of riding. Mine only leak in one tiny spot for a couple hours when I adjust them and dont feel like pulling them apart and siliconing them. They dont really give you more low end or top end when you adjust them (they do a little on both ends when adjusted that way), but the main thing you notice is that it changes where your powerband comes on. So you can tune your pipes to what your riding, and be in the sweet spot of the powerband. I posted about them in the for sale topic about them a little more, and if you do a search you'll see some of my other postings on how I feel about them. As for loudness, they have turndowns on the silencers to quiet them up a little bit, and they have a sound to them that you dont hear very often......I could tell if a banshee was coming with LRD's on it if I heard it coming. I like how its quiet. My buddies 330R is loud as can be and is annoying at times while riding it. You barely even notice mine when you have a helmet on. You can cut the turndowns off and it'll be louder.....but it loses the sound of the pipe, and it may get annoying in the future....and you might regret it. When we had the same mods, my buddy who has T5's, I was revving out farther than him when they were adjusted for top end, and was beating him by half a bike length to a whole bike length every time, and even adjusted for top end, you still have plenty of torque in the trails. I have mine set on 2 full rotations off the top end setting, and i'm sitting right on the powerband in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the trails. I say go for them, they're expensive....but you get what you pay for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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