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The police need to crack down on incredibly loud motorcycles.
by itsaidpens 7y ago
The police need to crack down on incredibly loud motorcycles.
- maximus1983 7y agoWhy? The whole point of one is to show how much of an arsehole you are. :D
- booleandilemma 7y agoAnd the sociopaths blasting music from their cars at 2am.
- BasicObject 7y agoHow about all the lifted trucks with vertical / smoke stack type exhaust while they're at it?
- majos 7y agoDo these things actually contribute meaningfully to air pollution? I think "rolling coal" is silly because it's so childishly spiteful, but I've rarely actually seen it. Loud cars and motorcycles seem to be everywhere.
- rangersanger 7y agoIt’s a regional thing I suspect. It’s a big problem in utah, home of the Diesel Brothers and some of the worst air pollution in the country. It’s just recently illegal here. One guy doing it might not be that meaningful but, that’s true of just about everything.
- planteen 7y agoI lived in a house on a busy street for 9 months. The master bedroom was in the back and there were only 2 types of traffic we could here back there: emergency vehicles and motorcycles with pipes. They were very loud in the front of the house. Motorcycles were far more common than emergency vehicles in summer. Cold weather luckily put a damper on the motorcycles eventually. So irritating. They terrified one of my cats every time they went by. I wonder why there aren't automated tickets for noise like the are for running red lights and speeding?
- badpun 7y agoI imagine it's much harder to automatically pinpoint the vehicle that is making the noise.
- heimatau 7y agoI'm not totally embedded in the motorcycle lifestyle enough to give you a well written detail into the reasoning but I have been exposed to a lot of riders. I'll say this. In numerous cases, loud motorcyclists do it for their SAFETY. Most motorists don't pay attention to a small vehicle, especially if it were quiet. Most motorists are listening to music or something else, so the road doesn't have their utmost attention. The LOUDness of their motorcycle jolts the unattended motorists that a tiny vehicle is nearby. As for the excessively loud, etc, that's above my understanding. Finally, your biggest defense against loud motorists (in your home) is double drywalled and good insulation in your home. It will become a lot quieter and you'll have energy efficiencies by doing so.
- colanderman 7y agoI have never bought this argument. Motorcycle pipes point backward. On the highway, you can't really hear them until they have passed you and are thus already in your field of vision. If the point is to alert drivers that you are on their blind spot, why not direct the sound forward?
- heimatau 7y agoDirection of the pipe might be more efficient on that front but it doesn't mitigate that it DOES help. I can hear cars behind me that are loud and their loud mufflers are pointing back too. You might never have 'bought' the argument but direction of the pipe doesn't take away from the fact that MOST people DO hear them as they begin to pass you. Except when they zip through going illegal mph. That's something that...baffles me. Why zip through WITH loud mufflers. They don't seem to be too bright but...fate comes for those cyclists fairly quickly.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoMotorcycles are just straight up dangerous, loud pipes aren't going to change that. Even if every single car on the road was self driving, it would still be dangerous. If you want to become an organ donor, then go ahead. But you can't make everyone else deal with the externalities of your choice.