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I don't know what to tell you, I'm normally a pretty sensible type. Stick to the speed limits, have a small sensible car etc. But on a motorbike the noise of th
by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I don't know what to tell you, I'm normally a pretty sensible type. Stick to the speed limits, have a small sensible car etc. But on a motorbike the noise of the exhaust while riding a motorcycle is intoxicating!
- goldenkey 5y agoInhaling the exhaust is intoxicating too. Not all of us want to destroy our lives for cheap thrills. https://youtu.be/eEdf0R5ypsg https://youtu.be/eEdf0R5ypsg https://youtu.be/GO6guuJtPkM https://youtu.be/GO6guuJtPkM
- NikolaNovak 5y agoAbsolutely. To you. Other 10,000 people you pass be dammed.
- ubercow13 5y agoLots of 'intoxicating' things are incredibly selfish or even endanger others, that doesn't seem like a justification for anything.
- bayindirh 5y agoAny engine can be intoxicating. Especially 3.0L V6 and upwards. However, having an intoxicating piece of equipment doesn't allow anyone to drive recklessly in public roads, endangering yourself and others. This the the thing I can tell you, as a son of a rally driver.
- jray 5y agoAll people who make noise with their motorbikes deserve a slow and painful death.
- PopePompus 5y agoI recently had to move because of the noise caused by people like you.
- berkes 5y agoI live in a nature area, on a curvy road (a dike). On sunny days, the amount of motorcycles passing is insane: several hundreds. Of those, under 1% is like you: rediculously loud, shifting gears too late, etc. Me and my neighbors are so fed up with those 20-something noise pollutors per week, that we're working with our regional govt to ban all motorcycles on these roads, or re-arrange our road so motorcycling is no longer fun, here. Apparently that is the only route left, now. So congratulations: you've managed to spoil a hobby of hundreds of motorcyclists. (Besides being annoying as hell, obviuosly)
- VBprogrammer 5y agoYou seem to be projecting. My motorbike always had a street legal exhaust on it and it wasn't particularly loud. Perhaps you should spend less time worrying about a little bit of noise, especially during daylight hours, presumably on mostly sunny days.
- bayindirh 5y agoCan you be underestimating how sound propagates in silent environments, and our brains are so efficient at filtering background noise? Since the pandemic started, traffic around my home decreased tremendously and, even smallest traffic became bothering. In sparsely populated areas, that oddball sound is much more disturbing to residents which are used to silence. BTW, getting angry to people who we don't know personally is not very productive IMHO.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoI'm intrigued about which part of that response you thought was angry? The front elevation of my house is less than 15ft away from a reasonably busy road. I'm no stranger to the perils of noise pollution. In fact, around one week a year, last week in fact, the M25 (the London ring road) is diverted overnight along our road. This means we have heavy trucks passing our home all night long. We also live under the departure route for Heathrow (though that's been relatively quiet this year!). I think people should live and let live though. Otherwise we end up in a situation where people are constantly trying to ban other people's hobbies. Off-road driving, motorcycles, horse riding, light aircraft, playing the drums, road cycling, caravaning, beer gardens, smoking weed, barbequing, DIY, fixing up old cars etc. They all have something someone else could find objectional if they lack joy enough in their own life to want to cause misery in someone else's.