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In large cities people ignore car alarms and are more and likely going to attract a brick through the window from pissed of neighbors. The biggest issue is pe
by dangerboysteve 6y ago
In large cities people ignore car alarms and are more and likely going to attract a brick through the window from pissed of neighbors. The biggest issue is people with car alarms have the sensitivity so low anything triggers them. I used to live in a condo, owned a Fatboy and when I fired up the bike and rode up the underground parkade 6-10 cars alarms would go off.
- coryrc 6y agoCongrats on finding something more disruptive than car alarms.
- dangerboysteve 6y agowell I had muffled pipes, not straight pipes and I never gunned the bike with people around or at stop lights. In the parkade I would put around. The reason for the alarms going off was the resonance and vibration of the bike with its crappy rubber engine mounts. I have always found tuner cars with their fat pipe exhausts way worse.
- vocram 6y agoYou meant sensitivity so _high_?
- esrauch 6y agoI think this is a case like high/low granularity or bi/semi- annual where either directions are sometimes used mean either meanings.
- inetknght 6y agoYour loud-ass vehicle shouldn't be legal.
- 01100011 6y agoSeriously. I've been considering bricking a couple of the street racers in my neighborhood lately. One of the idiots likes to rev the engine to vent his frustration as he drives back and forth looking for parking. The funny thing is, a lot of the loud cars aren't even that fast. My 2.4L SUV beats a lot of those fools sporting straight pipes.
- dangerboysteve 6y agoI owned the bike for 2 years about 15+ years ago before I t-boned a car (their fault). The bike was written off. It was the first and last Harley I ever owned. After that I switched to Japanese and Italian bikes.
- naavis 6y agoI wonder if there is some geographical variation in the alarm sensitivity. I rarely hear car alarms in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. I have never noticed that any slight bumps or vibrations would set car alarms off. I have even scratched a few cars in the parking lot with my own car back in the days when I had just gotten my license, and still no alarms. Car theft is relatively rare here too.
- telesilla 6y ago>Car theft is relatively rare here too Well, you *are* living in a country with some of the highest economic equality in the world!
- naavis 6y agoWell, I was more wondering if there is some correlation between the occurrence of car thefts and the sensitivity of car alarms. Do they make the alarms less sensitive in countries with less car thefts?