Best Sounding Road Bikes Ever 2017 ► Top 10z

Ask any biker what they like about motorcycles and noise will come up time and time again. You may remember a bike being particularly pretty, or the first time you went over 150mph, but absolutely nothing attacks the senses like a combustion engine singing it's tune through metal pipes.

Take Yamaha's crossplane crank R1 for example, with aftermarket exhausts and baffles out, it leaves almost nothing to be desired. The same goes for big V-twins, or almost any V4 engined production bike for that matter, but are they special? Do they really stand out or will something new come out shortly after and make you re-evaluate?

We asked some well-known players in the motorcycle industry which bikes have stood the test of time and continue to put smiles on faces everytime we're fortunate enough to hear them roar into life.