Bikes with noisy engine whine

[Ice Burger]

Don't know if it's just me but I love a noisy gearbox and engine! Really satisfying to hear a wizz sound when on the throttle.

https://youtu.be/LkO1pP19wYs

[xX-Alex-Xx]

Depends on the engine. V4 gear driven cams? Hell yes.
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[WD Forte]

"I don't want to hear it " sounds like a whine to me
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[jeffyjeff]

[chickenstrip]

I thought it was a characteristic of straight cut gears? Which I think most bikes use.
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[Suntan Sid]

[pepperami]

As long as the noise is ‘normal’ and part of the inherent character of the bike, I can live with it.

If the bike develops a whine , not happy Pepperami is not happy.

I suppose going on from this, all the different noises my/your bike makes, tells you about the bike and its health.
A bit like when your car develops a squeak, you know something needs to be fixed.
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[Ice Burger]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Why no option for 'what whine? I can't hear anything over the radio.'
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[chickenstrip]

If you like all the noises a bike makes, get yourself a Street Triple with a decent can. It's the Mozart of bike noise. You don't ride it, you conduct it
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[rpsmith79]

[Polarbear]

[ThatDippyTwat]

V4 gear driven cam whine. If you've not ridden one with a decent boomy can on it, your ears are missing out. The sound is a large part of why I bought the bike.

The cam gears are straight cut, and also much closer to you, hence it's so noticable.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Nope, don’t like it. Sounds electric. ZX6R G2 induction roar for the win. (Remus can too.) When I got the R1 it had a whine and a buzz which disappointed me, although I don’t notice it anymore. Sound is not the R1’s thing in comparison to the Kawasaki.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Sorry, I just like a thumpy exhaust. If I can hear the engine I think there's something wrong.
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Snorty]

Love the sound of the CBR250 (the 4-cyl one)
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[FretGrinder]

[chickenstrip]

One of my favourites was my 750 Turbo once I had got rid of the silencers, just a short bit of open pipe as trim. Sounded pretty mean, but not ridiculously loud, but the turbo whistle was really clear.

My H2 (triple) sounded good with Denco expansion chambers. Two stroke crackle but with a deeper note than most 2Ts due to the capacity. That was feckin' loud to the point where a neighbour told me she'd reported me to the local police (that was my dad - never heard a peep from him about it ).
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[ThunderGuts]

Both Japanese bikes I've owned have had a slight whine from the gearbox (disappears when I pull the clutch). It used to bug me no end (and still does sometimes) as to me it sounds wrong, but I put it down to being straight cut gears. My Triumph oddly didn't whine at all though (and the gearbox if anything was slightly more agricultural feeling than the Japanese bikes).
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[bacon]

I've been enjoying the V4 VFR800fi gear driven cam whine, it has a Remus can which is a fairly generic carbon end can, but it sounds pretty decent.

The Striple whistle, along with the air induction on the throttle and the SC Project Moto 2 link pipe I fitted sounded utterly epic. I do miss how that bike sounded, jizz worthy in short.

[ThunderGuts]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[chickenstrip]