Crazy thing! I had traded a 02 Roadie when I upgraded to the 05 when they first came out. We were setting outside one night on the patio, and I heard this bike coming down a paved street, and I mentioned that "thats sounds like my bike". Sure enough got up, and stuck my head over the side fence, and it was my old bike, and How I new the bike was by the river road bags, and the cobra exhaust. The rider stopped at the stop sign, and took off again, and I just had to laugh. Bike makes a sound like no other. Like being able to hear your children and identifying with the sounds they make.

Good Thread. One sound my bike does make after warm up though, is that it pings, and knocks on takeoff, but when it is cold it is not as bad. 40,000 mile birthday coming up this fall. 35,000 mile service just done.