[devane617]

My neighbor wants to fire up his Hog at 2:00am. Not unusual for him to set off car alarms in our alley. If I could ride a Hog, I probably would, but the loud noise needs to be hushed.

[rhombus]

So is it about the ride or about making noise?

[Vaquero]

potato, potato

[NonValueAdded]

Let’s not forget all those modified rice burners. They can be equally as loud and annoying. Or would that be considered profiling?

[listenhillary]

It is painful when they pass on the highway. Your freedom ends at my aching eardrum, or something like that.

Sorry dudes, gals.

[KarlInOhio]

What is it about Harley (and apparently only Harley) riders that cause them to read the simple word "STOP" on a red octagonal sign as "Sit there and rev your engine until your neighbors are so pissed off they are calling the police". It was a very happy day when the Harley rider a few houses from me moved away.

[wardaddy]

as approved by government standards, should hum like a sewing machine,

boy that sounds so nice....more nanny state....no smoking....9 year olds in car seats ...etc

ya'll can have it

[whd23]

Hey man, "Loud pipes save lives"

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...

[Vaquero]

well....not too loud.

[Domandred]

My neighbor wants to fire up his Hog at 2:00am.

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.

[attackcartoons]

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.

[TLI]

muffling Harley-Davidsons, hushing Hondas and stifling Suzukis

Holey Pow, Batman! That is some writing!

[reagan_fanatic]

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.

[stevio]

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.

[1Old Pro]

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.

[WBL 1952]

Don’t blame Harley Davidson - a stock Harley Davidson is pretty quiet.

Blame the aftermarket guys that sell these god dang straight pipes and the Harley Davidson dealers that convince customers they have to slap on something other than HD pipes, change out the air cleaners, and dyno the machine to “get them to run right” —— all for just about $1,200 or so.

One is born every minute.

[kilowhskey]

Some kind of national, measurable standard needs to be set; preferably one which captures those punks of all skin colors who drive around with 2,000 watt stereo systems booming.

[Honor above all]

There are a lot of after-market pipes that increase performance but won’t shatter your eardrums. The old canard that “Loud pipes save lives” is not defensible. The majority of riders have quiet pipes and the majority of fatalities are related to alcohol use, lack of a helmet, high speed and driving at night. Pipe noise plays no part in those statistics.
I’ve been riding on the street and in the dirt for 35 years and personally can’t stand the straight piped Harleys and the Yoshimura piped sport bikes that shake the fillings from your teeth. Still, I thought that we lived in a free country. I would prefer personal responsibility over legislated behavior. Sigh.

[horse_doc]

My former neighbor did the same thing. His garage is literally 10 feet from my youngest daughter's bedroom.

He woke her up at 2-3 a.m. at least once a week for months. I talked to him calmly over and over, but he just didn't care that a 3 year-old was running into my bedroom crying on a regular basis, in the middle of the night.

There's no difference between a Hog and loud rap music.

[paul51]

•In Lancaster, Pa., starting this month riders and all motor vehicle drivers could be ticketed for drawing attention to themselves, whether by creating too much noise by revving their engines or doing hard accelerations. Tickets start at $150.

They should have added to this list of morons the ones that drive their cars around with the bass audio turned up to brain emulsifying levels so you can feel the vibrations a half mile away.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Here in Gettysburg, PA, one of the local bigshots owns a Harley-Davidson retail outlet. Every July, he has the Chamber of Commerce sponsor "Bike Week." During that week, literally thousands of bikers descend on the town with their hogs, and relentlessly rattle the entire neighborhood.

I live next to the highway, and I can't even check the mail without having to run a gauntlet of bikers zooming up and down the road. The noise is deafening, and you can't hide from it since it penetrates walls. Citizen complaints go no where, since our wonderful elected officials always cite the $$$$$$$$ that the bikers bring into the town.

So, we have to grin and bear it... :(