well....not too loud.
Posted on 08/24/2007 8:27:53 AM PDT by devane617
So is it about the ride or about making noise?
potato, potato
Let’s not forget all those modified rice burners. They can be equally as loud and annoying. Or would that be considered profiling?
It is painful when they pass on the highway. Your freedom ends at my aching eardrum, or something like that.
Sorry dudes, gals.
boy that sounds so nice....more nanny state....no smoking....9 year olds in car seats ...etc
ya'll can have it
In keeping with this (bullsh!t) theory, I've wired my car horn so it's always on. I just drive around with it blaring away. It's about safety, you wouldn't understand...
well....not too loud.
We had the exact same problem. 2:00am and the guy fires up his hog and sits there and just revs it for a while while drinking a beer and yelling (can't talk with a revving hog) with his friends that all just got back from the bar.
I go outside in my bathrobe and yell across the street "Hey people are trying to sleep." They flip me off.
Wife comes outside and yells "turn it off or I'm calling the cops". They laugh at her and flip her off.
We go back inside and call the cops. Less then 5 minutes later cops are there. (I love living a block from the station...they could probably hear it themselves).
Neighbor gets a ticket for disturbing the peace.
Now he revs his hog from 10pm to 11pm which is right before noise ordinance kicks in.
I've NEVER seen him actually ride the thing, he just sits in his driveway and revs it.
The sound of power being wasted.
You have to tune the bike, prefferable on a dyno, after modifying the exhaust. Most of the tards riding around with straight pipes have actualy lost a couple horse power.
My BMW is quiet to the point where you can stand a foot away, and not know that it’s running. She still manages to set off car alarms. Blame the idiot car owners for setting the things to hair trigger.
The machines are typically so poorly tuned that if these yahoos didn't rev the engine, they'd stall out. I've seen it many times; the bikes just can't idle for long before dying.
We’ve got a couple of those jokers in our ‘hood, too. They seem to think that once they pull out of their cul de sac, they can then make their roaring noise on their way to the nearest through street.
Idiots.
” people notice the one motorcycle that makes a lot of noise,’ snip “They don’t notice the 50 that pass that don’t.”
Well Bill, the 50 that don’t make noise won’t be getting tickets! The one that does make noise will.
Holey Pow, Batman! That is some writing!
I don’t mind the bikes that are moderately loud, but the ones with straight pipes that rattle my teeth when they go by are the ones that really cheese me off. There is no valid reason to have them that loud other than to be a public ass.
I have a 2007 Harely Davidson Sportster with stock pipes on it. I continually read at HD forums about guys that want to know if putting this or that exhaust on their bike makes it louder or not.
I tell them if it is just noise they are after they should just scream as they go down the highway.
If you must, ticket the loud pipes, but for Heaven’s sake don’t ticket the guys doing wheelies down the interstate, that’s cool.
Same old same old: a few are going to wreck it for everybody.
I have no big problem with loud mufflers as long as they are restricted to daylight, perhaps 8am until 8pm.
The guy who rides past my house at 5:30am everymorning and shakes me out of bed is rude and because of his inconsideration/stupidity I will probably push for enforcement of our noise ordinance and he’ll ruin it for all his hog pals.
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