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You are making two false dichotomies. Even if Harley's have other safety compromises, loud pipes can make them safer. Even if you ride with awareness, loud pi
by CompelTechnic 8y ago
You are making two false dichotomies.
Even if Harley's have other safety compromises, loud pipes can make them safer. Even if you ride with awareness, loud pipes can make you safer. There is generally a lack of hard evidence, but it only makes sense that they would to me.
It can simultaneously be true that loud pipes save lives and loud pipes annoy people; whether the tradeoff is worth it to you is the real question.
- RankingMember 8y agoLoud pipes direct sound out and back, so anyone ahead of you, e.g. at an intersection or in oncoming traffic, still isn't going to hear you. "Loud pipes save lives" has never been proven by any data. Decent article/rant about this saying: https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/stop-saying-loud-pipes-save-lives https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/stop-saying-loud-pipes...
- mikestew 8y agoThere is generally a lack of hard evidence, but it only makes sense that they would to me. The lack of hard evidence should be your first clue, because you know the loud pipes crowd would crow to sunset if there were even the slightest shred of evidence. But it “makes sense”, does it? How many things did we think we knew because it “makes sense” until one day, “turns out...”? So one must first establish that loud pipes save lives. And the onus is on the one making that claim.