Everyone else shouldn’t have to pay the price for motorcycling to be safe. If it’s not safe without a damaging level of noise, then people should opt not to ride motorcycles.
There are noise laws in nearly every community in America. I know this because I have been fined before, not for my bike, but for work crews in my employ who started too early on a Saturday morning, or had gas powered too close to an occupied dwelling, or because someone filed a noise complaint.
This is what I have been laughing to myself about all morning, if your neighbor is causing a disturbance, file a complaint (that’s call the cops to all of the panty waists apparently residing here now), the police will show up and present the fool with a cease and desist order so the next time he comes home at 3AM, a phone call will land him in jail.
If I pull up next to you at a stop light and start revving my motor and genuinely intimidate you with the sound of my pipes, take down my plate number and call the cops. I will most likely be written up or worse. Do all motorcycles bother you, or is it just the loud ones?
If you see, or more appropriately, hear someone breaking the law, have them arrested if they offend you. You people are not powerless. But if your solution to a minority of bad actors is to adversely effect my chosen lifestyle and a lifestyle of millions of other bikers, how are you any different than the nanny’s that I THOUGHT we were all against in here.
My bikes are just as loud as any out there, louder if we’re talking about the ‘66, but you wouldn’t know that when I ride through town or a neighborhood. I like and respect my neighbors and they seem to feel the same about me. I like to keep it like that.