Spring has finally arrived and I’m loving the arrival of the warm, sunny days, flowers and all the other wonderful things that spring brings. One thing I DO NOT love though is the arrival of the ‘NOBS’ (Noisy Obnoxious Bikers)!!!! As they roar by me on the streets, I plug my ears in order to save my eardrums from imploding!! One day I was on a bus when one of these nasty creatures roared by. I swear he/she broke the sound barrier with their ungodly loud pipes! Some infants on the bus started wailing and could not be quieted! I guess these ‘NOBS’ must decide to disconnect their hearing aids during their nasty rides so they are not tortured along with the rest of us… —Hates Loud Bikers
This article appears in Apr 19-25, 2012.
I’ve heard them set off car alarms because they were so loud.
we get a few of these bitches every spring. i’m guessing it’s near young ave in the southend
I don’t find it any worse then the loud pipe pimp shit caddies with the thumping bass sounds. I guess noise bylaws don’t apply to bikes and cars?
I love motorcycles and nothing sounds sweeter to me than a well tuned and balanced throaty sounding bike. A lot of riders feel the same way. Stock exhausts, while affective, rob performance and sound like tin cans. That’s why many riders opt to purchase an aftermarket exhaust. Increased response and better sound all while maintaining the same emission standards. Also, the biker sub-culture has a long and varied history of customization and making your ride “your own”. The two go hand in hand.
There are a few, however, (the NOB’s), who feel the need to bolt on straight pipes with no baffles or some other weird customized system that screams to the point of causing ears to bleed. It’s all for attention and nothing else. Any performance gain they have over the more reserved exhaust is marginal at best. And the whole “loud pipes save lives” campaign is a crock of shit.
It’s these “NOB’s” that are ruining it for the rest of us. There is now legislation in a handful of Canadian cities and towns, (and more being passed every week), that basically outlaws ALL after-market exhausts on bikes. All this is stemming from these arse monkeys who want attention and think it’s fun to set off car alarms as they go roaring by. Meanwhile, the other, more conscientious bikers who don’t go ripping through town and want to buy/install a respectable, (low, throaty rumble, not a barking scream. And yes, they DO exist), aftermarket exhaust system are S.O.L. The sore point of all this is that this legislation seems to be targeting motorcycles exclusively. There isn’t, as of yet, ANY mention of modified cars, (sport tuners), lawn mowers, semi trucks, (especially those with jake brakes), etc. but that’s another bitch.
Be advised, OB that not ALL motorcyclists are like those you write about. In fact, it’s only a small fraction of the overall riding community that are ruining it for the rest.
potato potato potato potato…..
‘Round here, bikers make their rides louder on purpose so they will be heard by oblivious drivers and not run over. Not everyone is pleased with this, however.
like any group of people, vastie. i love motorcycles and *some* of the people who ride them…leaf blowers make noise, stupid stupid stupid. helicopters flying over my house, love it
I don’t like the sound of helicopters, because it usually means the national guard (motto: we do more stupid things before 10:30 than you’ll do all day) is looking for pot gardens.
yeah, none of those *yet*
I groove on helicopter noise because it means that at some point I’m going to start humming this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz3Cc7wlfkI
R. Lee Ermey as helo pilot @ 3:24
lovely music and nerdness of the highest order, i’ve been on lots of planes but i’ve always wanted to fly in a helicopter. back to the bitch, it’s a city and the noise can be bothersome. plug in your ear devices but maintain your situational awareness
Back to the tangent >; ) “Die Walkure” is on at the Met this saturday. Since it promises to be our last day on Barrington, “Die Gotterdammerung” would have been a better choice, but I ain’t complaining.
Yes, because we don’t want to disturb the scerenity that personifies the city lifestyle, where quiet solitude is paramount.
*yawn* op read my handle, if i have to explain it you wouldn’t understand…….and you can take a big ol suck on my exhaust pipe….then i wouldn’t have to listen to your high pitched bitch whining…..
funny you should speak of loud bikes o.p., my buddy and i are just about finished putting our 69 harley back together,. and is that motherfucker loud. she got all the pipes of the old days, and will be blowing by your door, in about 2 weeks. tell me o.p., where do you live, just to make sure you get the full effects of the rockets.
some people make me crazier than i am. would you say the same thing about my 68 plymouth road runner, it has lake pipes and a heavy duty hemi in it. all decked out in her hemi orange color. when that baby talks, you can hear her from a mile away, but all street legal too. if those little shit box cars wanna fart and rattle around, then old snake, will also cruise the streets. this car will be out of storage, for the first time in 10 years, next month. the 69 and the 70, are staying put.
Don’t you go on about how much you hate loud music coming from cars LS? But your loud bike is okay? Mmmkay Imma just cruise around Fairview blasting rap music. But I know people are likely already doing that as we type.
Making an obnoxious noise just to be noticed whether it be on a motorbike or anything else is simply childish. I also question the legality of those bikes.
but see mel, these cars go all day, no stop. whereas the bike will only be for show and go times. the runner, will be very soon out and that’s a no drive on any main drag thing. too fucking high insurance rates, for one thing. but yeah, they both will be loud and proud, and i won’t be bugging the fuck out of people 24/7. dig it babe.