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> Having been neighbors with a lot of these guys, it has been repeatedly explained to me that theh make their bikes louder to be heard for safety. Very popular

> Having been neighbors with a lot of these guys, it has been repeatedly explained to me that theh make their bikes louder to be heard for safety. Very popular line of thinking with people who own (e.g.) Harley-Davidsons… which are loud out of the box. Go over to (say) /r/motorcycles where there's a larger variety of ownership, and not many folks really buy it. The High Side, Low Side motorcycle podcast had an episode on moto-myths where they went over this: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1UlW-sfbBA&t=21m47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1UlW-sfbBA&t=21m47 The MCRider moto-training channel covered it: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02_9V7OKjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02_9V7OKjw

mikestew 3y ago
Very popular line of thinking with people who own (e.g.) Harley-Davidsons… which are loud out of the box. No they are not, at least not in the U. S. Thé EPA dictates a max dB sound output, and HDs must meet it, like everyone else. Stock HDs sound quite nice. Of course, you might not know this because no real American leaves a HD dealer with the stock exhaust installed.
- unyttigfjelltol 3y ago
  The aftermarket for noise scofflaws should not exist. I lived near some kind of chopper club years ago and every Sunday around 10am you'd have these clowns revving loud enough to nearly make eardrums bleed. I theorize the reason they feel comfortable inflicting this on others is because they have the admiration and encouragement of the individuals on the police force who would do the same with their cruisers if the city would buy the parts. Pox on all of them in this narrow regard.
KennyBlanken 3y ago
I was banned from /r/motorcycles for commenting on a handlebar camera video where a guy was racing down a winding, limited visibility road with his buddies and lost control trying to avoid hitting a cyclist who was crossing in a crosswalk, complete with blinking warning lights. Every comment was "fuck that cyclist, they rode out in front of you!" Apparently calculating from the video that they were doing 15+ mph over the speed limit, and proving from the video and math that the cyclist could not see him before they'd started into the crosswalk...was ban-worthy. The guy even blurred out his speedometer to hide that he was speeding. His comment/post history showed that the motorcycle, which was a very powerful model, was his first bike and he'd very recently bought it. He posted "new motorcycle day" pictures. The guy was a textbook squid: recently acquired first bike was too powerful for him, no brains/skills, riding dangerously, putting himself and others at risk. Pointed that out to the mods and was told I was being reported for "doxxing." For clicking on "posts" on his profile and seeing he'd recently posted a picture of the bike. Fuck that subreddit and its mods.
- mey 3y ago
  This kinda nails an issue with reddit. You can find a hobby/community that you have overlapping interest in, but the culture/moderation of that community may not have any consistency with what you want. Which would be fine, but reddit doesn't provide room/discoverability for multiple subreddits of the same topic with different moderation styles/cultures.
- dharmab 3y ago
  If this was recent, much of the subreddit's mod team left a few months ago. The new management is far less active in moderation.

mikestew 3y ago

Very popular line of thinking with people who own (e.g.) Harley-Davidsons… which are loud out of the box. No they are not, at least not in the U. S. Thé EPA dictates a max dB sound output, and HDs must meet it, like everyone else. Stock HDs sound quite nice. Of course, you might not know this because no real American leaves a HD dealer with the stock exhaust installed.

unyttigfjelltol 3y ago
The aftermarket for noise scofflaws should not exist. I lived near some kind of chopper club years ago and every Sunday around 10am you'd have these clowns revving loud enough to nearly make eardrums bleed. I theorize the reason they feel comfortable inflicting this on others is because they have the admiration and encouragement of the individuals on the police force who would do the same with their cruisers if the city would buy the parts. Pox on all of them in this narrow regard.

KennyBlanken 3y ago

I was banned from /r/motorcycles for commenting on a handlebar camera video where a guy was racing down a winding, limited visibility road with his buddies and lost control trying to avoid hitting a cyclist who was crossing in a crosswalk, complete with blinking warning lights. Every comment was "fuck that cyclist, they rode out in front of you!" Apparently calculating from the video that they were doing 15+ mph over the speed limit, and proving from the video and math that the cyclist could not see him before they'd started into the crosswalk...was ban-worthy. The guy even blurred out his speedometer to hide that he was speeding. His comment/post history showed that the motorcycle, which was a very powerful model, was his first bike and he'd very recently bought it. He posted "new motorcycle day" pictures. The guy was a textbook squid: recently acquired first bike was too powerful for him, no brains/skills, riding dangerously, putting himself and others at risk. Pointed that out to the mods and was told I was being reported for "doxxing." For clicking on "posts" on his profile and seeing he'd recently posted a picture of the bike. Fuck that subreddit and its mods.

mey 3y ago
This kinda nails an issue with reddit. You can find a hobby/community that you have overlapping interest in, but the culture/moderation of that community may not have any consistency with what you want. Which would be fine, but reddit doesn't provide room/discoverability for multiple subreddits of the same topic with different moderation styles/cultures.
dharmab 3y ago
If this was recent, much of the subreddit's mod team left a few months ago. The new management is far less active in moderation.