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[QUOTE="zigmx614, post: 1077940, member: 70783"] Nice! you guys are on the sound thing for sure. This is Jesse from Dirt Rider Magazine. I wrote the test on your forum's bike and have some input about it's sound. First, most of the sound from that bike that is pushing it close to the limit is not coming out of the exhaust. The 500's exhaust system was adequate and acceptable to our standards. It was close, and a ranger would give us a warning, but it still passed. A lot of the bad noise (bad according to a sound meter) is resonating from the expansion chamber, airbox and engine as that beast eats air and spits dust. For this test we did it as a ranger would. It was done in a parking lot and that's not the best setting for a 2-stroke to shine. The 2-banger sound is a little unfairly tested in these scenarios since we all know their noise doesn't carry nearly as far as a four-stroke. Plus, the more rapid, sharp pulses of 2-stroke sound bounce around the small area of a sound test and sort of gang up on the meter. It's great that you're taking the sound issue so seriously and I'm glad this bike and project brought the topic up again. So, realize that even though the bike was the second loudest in the test, it's sort of at a disadvantage with it's noise and looks worse on paper than it sounds on the trail. Wouldn't a legit 96db bike be sweet? Keep up the good work! -JZ [/QUOTE]
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