quietest pipe

[Bridger]

What is the quietest aftermarket pipe for the GS500?  Call me crazy but I'm not a big fan of loud exhaust on bikes.  I have heard the yosh pipes are fairly quiet and they look great too.  What do you guys think???

[waiho]

I guess the only way you can get quiet is to get either go yoshimura or jardine, they both have quiet insert that you can purchase separatly, but putting in the quiet insert would need diffirent jetting compare to without it

[bill14224]

If you squeeze the end of the pipe closed it will become very quiet.  

You're not crazy.  I'm not in love with loud pipes either.

Vance & Hines is by far the cheapest but it's louder than stock.  I don't think it's too loud but I wouldn't want it any louder.  It doesn't rouse the ire of the police.  Your stock pipe is quiet.  Why not just keep it?  If you replace your brand new exhaust it'll cost you between $281+ shipping for a V&H, $428 + shipping for a Jardine, and with filter pods and a re-jet you'll pick-up 3-4 HP.  Your GS will never be significantly faster unless you pour thousands into it or roll it off a cliff.  If I had a stock system on my bike when I bought it I would have kept it until it rusted-out.

[The Buddha]

Oh yea ... The buddha will core the stock, baffle it, cork it, paint it blue and stuff a llama - yes a real llama - no imposter alpaca ... in the exhaust.

That would be very very quiet, unless you get the llama angry ... then you'd have a lot more things to worry about.
Fine, I can do some crap like that though ... Prolly will be quiet and still be flowing like a flo-bee.
Cool.
Buddha..

[Rema1000]

I'm dubious that you can find a quieter exhaust than the stock exhaust.  When I bought mine, it had the Cobra F1r aftermarket pipe.  I park late at night in a quiet neighborhood, and wanted something quiter.  I sold the F1r can, bought a factory exhaust at a junkyard, and pocketed the difference ($).

[Bridger]

I'm fine with the sound of the stock exhaust.  I was honestly just going for looks.......   Maybe I will just stick with the nice and quiet stock pipe.  I used to have an 05 YFZ 450 quad and I bought an aftermarket pipe for it(DR.D), and I couldn't tell any performance gains, even with the recommended rejetting.  And, I honestly thought my stock pipe with the baffle unbolted sounded better........IDK, I guess pipes are kinda a waste of money.......