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Why is it that a motorcycle owner can make their bike as loud as they want to the point my whole home will shake as they go by and that is ok, but yet if I have a custom exhaust on my car that isn’t anywhere near as loud, I can fail safety inspection and get ticketed? —No_exhaust
This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2011.
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As a biker myself, I must say I agree with the irritation expressed by this poster. There’s absolutely no need for the ridiculously loud pipes some guys insist on installing on their bikes. It’s the old Grade 3 “Look at me!” syndrome. Same goes for the twats who can’t sit at a light without constantly blipping the throttle. What’s the matter — your bike won’t idle?
Both are obnoxious.
Mommy! That man’s motorcycle is louder than my car. Waaahn!
If this is what is important in your life, I’m very sad for you.
Your car wont pass safety because its a piece of shit.
Noise envy. What a planet.
Cause bikes are cool and your little commuter car turned into a sports car with your plastic wind deflector and stupid exhaust isn’t.
I’m pretty sure we covered this already…
Well OP get use to it as the nicer weather comes so does all the noisy toys.
you have one of those brappy fucking things on your car, and got a ticket, i don’t believe you. if the cops were giving tickets out, there would not be any of those snot boxes running around, brapping at all fucking hours of the night.
bikes like cars, do get ticketed for excessive noise. just harder to catch the bike tho.
Ahh…Victory Motorcycles, bigger, badder, louder than a Harley, lol.
What the fools don’t realize is that the ‘extra loud’ pipes cost power.
you sure the exhaust didn’t have a HOLE in it and was thus Vader-like…
and hence ticket….
and your rage and begrudgement towards bikers.
rest assured, not all bikers want to puncture their auditory canal.
nor do some of us know why the others think it’s ‘cool’…
This is a recurring theme, and I wrote a bitch about the same topic last year.
I’m a biker, and this whole “cult of noise” thing is beyond me…I simply don’t get it. I value my hearing and ALWAYS wear earplugs when riding as the wind noise inside the helmet alone can contribute to loss of hearing over time. I really don’t know how the guys riding those bikes can stand it. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that some of these fucktards, later on in life, will claim disability benefits from WCB or some other insurance package for a loss of hearing supposedly incurred through exposition to excessive noise “at work”, when in reality their “motorcycling preferences” are the cause. Fucking idiots.
Some will use the pretext that “loud pipes save lives”, but that is complete BS. Unless the vehicle is coming directly from behind you, the loudness of your pipes doesn’t help anyone to locate you any earlier (laws of physics, doppler effect, etc.) and stats show that collisions from behind does not account for a significant portion of motorcycle fatalities at all. It’s rather a rare occurence.
The guys from South Park really nailed it in “the F word” episode, it’s all about attention-whoring.
Same with the recent episode about the penis sizes ;D
OP, don’t worry about it. When a moron biker gets in an accident, it’s usually their last. Cars rule!
I’ve heard the “loud pipes save lives” credo from some bikers for years, but I maintain that loud pipes just piss people off; bikes or cars.
There’s enough noise pollution in our world as it is. We don’t need more. Find another way to get noticed if that’s what you crave.
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Like Frenchie said about ‘loud pipes’, it’s bullshit, all the noise is directed which ever way the pipes are pointed, vast majority are to the rear.
Sound behaves very much like light, it goes in the direction it’s pointed.
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I’m a biker and I’ll chime in as another person who doesn’t get it – I have the pipes on my bike tuned to make it loud than it could otherwise be, but not obnoxiously loud. The reality is, to a degree, loud pipes DO save lives, but they don’t need to be ridiculous. They provide another sensory cue that a bike is nearby, and frankly, there’s a lot of motorists who seem to find motorcycles completely invisible, anything that helps them detect us is a good thing in my books.
All that said, there’s a point at which it’s just a little too ridiculous.
I go away for a day & 1/2, there has to be 40 page of posts…frig, not going to read 🙁
I have to add to this bitch, about fucking irresponsible, dangerously self-entitled, wanna-be asshole bikers.
If it’s your first bike, don’t get a 100hp monster, you don’t know how to control it. Fucking stupid noobs.
This is just one example of what seems to be rampant these days.
– Fall River, at the lights by Sobeys/Tims.
Traffic on the main road has a green light, a car with the right of way is in the intersection, two dumb-ass-mother-fuckers decide that they don’t have to wait, and turned ‘right on a red’, pulled right out in front of the car. I don’t know how they made it without getting creamed, the car driver must have amazing reflexes. And of course, not a cop in sight.
So, to all the posers, who think that they’re a “bad ass” biker, GROW THE FUCK UP, and learn to drive responsibly. You may impress the “Park & Bullshit” crowd, but that’s it, to everyone else you’re a baby in a sand-box.
One more thing, anybody who gets their motorcycle licence, without taking the Nova Scotia Motorcycle Safety Course, is a friggin moron. Safety First, people.
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