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No, I believe the officer I talked to didn't care and thought I was a pansy.

by genter 3y ago

grepfru_it 3y ago
Ergo he has no incentive to target certain laws. Nothing I said was incorrect
bdcravens 3y ago
Probably a gearhead showing his personal bias.
- genter 3y ago
  The really frustrating thing is I love cars. I love driving, I love shifting though the gears, I love working on them, I've replaced headgaskets, rebuilt transmissions, and regeared differentials. I just hate how obnoxious noisy vehicles are.
  - bdcravens 3y ago
    For sure - I love speed myself. (Ironic that my fastest car ever is also the quietest, but EVs are a different creature). I guess not everyone has the same ethos that our personal enjoyment doesn't entitle us to encroach on others.
lokar 3y ago
This. More so for loud motorcycles, since cops tend to also own them.
- dumbfounder 3y ago
  I am in favor of louder pipes for motorcycles for safety reasons. But there is such a thing as too loud.
  - BobaFloutist 3y ago
    Which is the same reason every biker with loud pipes wears a full high-vis outfit. Or maybe they're just assholes.
    - dumbfounder 3y ago
      Most of them are assholes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not safer to be louder.
  - rrix2 3y ago
    safer for whom? My windows only rattle after the motorcycle has driven past, they don't project the noise ahead of you nearly as much as you think they do.
    - dumbfounder 3y ago
      If you are riding on the highway going the same speed as other cars, it is often hard for them to see you, but if they can hear you they know you are there. It isn’t about driving past.
  - genter 3y ago
    So should every pedestrian have a blazing siren on their head?
    - charcircuit 3y ago
      Pedestrians should not be on the road.
      - freeone3000 3y ago
        No, cars should not be on the road.
        charcircuit 3y ago
- wutwutwat 3y ago
  This logic is absurd. Cops are hands off with bikers not because they own bikes. Extrapolating your logic one could say: Cops don’t ticket cars because they also own a car Cops don’t stop people with guns because they also own guns Cops don’t go after bikers because they factor in if the offense is worth the risk, to both themselves and the public. There’s also a whole thing with outlaw motorcycle gangs that plays into it. Most non entry level bikes can out maneuver and outrun cop cars with ease, yes, even those slow looking Harley’s. Starting a chase over loud pipes would put a lot of innocent people at risk and for what? It isn’t worth it and it’s safe to say if the biker is running modified pipes they are not on an entry level bike. Story: a buddy of mine had a gsxr 1000 and would purposely screw with cops on the freeway and as soon as they’d light up he’d be gone and doing 200mph within a few seconds, fitting between cars easily. Within 30-60 seconds a bike can be damn near a mile away from a cop car. Radioing ahead won’t help if you don’t know where they went and they were never running a plate to run… most cops know it’s pointless to chase and often immediately call it off. Public safety is more important. Those types of bikers have a way of making the issue go away all on their own eventually. You can’t temp fate that much and not eventually meet yours.
  - sib 3y ago
    Grappling hook through the front wheel fixes that right away...
    - wutwutwat 3y ago
      So we should kill people for loud exhausts? What about the innocent bystander the bike turns into jelly when it is catapulted into the air and lands on them? That energy has to go somewhere…
      - pixl97 3y ago
        Ya know, part of the reason cops should enforce the laws on the books is to keep people from going all Batman when they get tired of lawlessness.
- alexfoo 3y ago
  It's just the odd love of the Harley or similar. I got pulled over for noise (in the UK) as my ZX6-R had a hole in the downpipes and it was obviously a bit too noisy. I was trying my best to keep the noise down and (genuinely, provably) on my way to drop the bike off to have it repaired. The Cop that pulled me over was happy to chat about it when I explained that it was on its way to get fixed he let me off. Then a Harley that was twice as loud went past and the cop says "Cor, doesn't that sound lovely!" I asked him if he was going to pull it over for being louder than mine and he suddenly got very grumpy with me again. I didn't push any further as I didn't want to end up with a fine. What's the old line? "Harley's are probably the most efficient machine to turn gasoline into noise without that pesky by-product of horsepower."
pseg134 3y ago
To be fair to that cop I think you were too. Did you try solving the problem for yourself first?
- genter 3y ago
  Being woken up 1:00 in the morning multiple times a week by the walls of my house shaking from my neighbors vehicles makes me a pansy? But I did talk to them. Turns out he lives with his mom, and she just bitched me out.

No, I believe the officer I talked to didn't care and thought I was a pansy.

by genter 3y ago

No, I believe the officer I talked to didn't care and thought I was a pansy.

grepfru_it 3y ago

Ergo he has no incentive to target certain laws. Nothing I said was incorrect

bdcravens 3y ago

Probably a gearhead showing his personal bias.

genter 3y ago
The really frustrating thing is I love cars. I love driving, I love shifting though the gears, I love working on them, I've replaced headgaskets, rebuilt transmissions, and regeared differentials. I just hate how obnoxious noisy vehicles are.
- bdcravens 3y ago
  For sure - I love speed myself. (Ironic that my fastest car ever is also the quietest, but EVs are a different creature). I guess not everyone has the same ethos that our personal enjoyment doesn't entitle us to encroach on others.

lokar 3y ago

This. More so for loud motorcycles, since cops tend to also own them.

dumbfounder 3y ago
I am in favor of louder pipes for motorcycles for safety reasons. But there is such a thing as too loud.
- BobaFloutist 3y ago
  Which is the same reason every biker with loud pipes wears a full high-vis outfit. Or maybe they're just assholes.
  - dumbfounder 3y ago
    Most of them are assholes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not safer to be louder.
- rrix2 3y ago
  safer for whom? My windows only rattle after the motorcycle has driven past, they don't project the noise ahead of you nearly as much as you think they do.
  - dumbfounder 3y ago
    If you are riding on the highway going the same speed as other cars, it is often hard for them to see you, but if they can hear you they know you are there. It isn’t about driving past.
- genter 3y ago
  So should every pedestrian have a blazing siren on their head?
  - charcircuit 3y ago
    Pedestrians should not be on the road.
    - freeone3000 3y ago
      No, cars should not be on the road.
      - charcircuit 3y ago
wutwutwat 3y ago
This logic is absurd. Cops are hands off with bikers not because they own bikes. Extrapolating your logic one could say: Cops don’t ticket cars because they also own a car Cops don’t stop people with guns because they also own guns Cops don’t go after bikers because they factor in if the offense is worth the risk, to both themselves and the public. There’s also a whole thing with outlaw motorcycle gangs that plays into it. Most non entry level bikes can out maneuver and outrun cop cars with ease, yes, even those slow looking Harley’s. Starting a chase over loud pipes would put a lot of innocent people at risk and for what? It isn’t worth it and it’s safe to say if the biker is running modified pipes they are not on an entry level bike. Story: a buddy of mine had a gsxr 1000 and would purposely screw with cops on the freeway and as soon as they’d light up he’d be gone and doing 200mph within a few seconds, fitting between cars easily. Within 30-60 seconds a bike can be damn near a mile away from a cop car. Radioing ahead won’t help if you don’t know where they went and they were never running a plate to run… most cops know it’s pointless to chase and often immediately call it off. Public safety is more important. Those types of bikers have a way of making the issue go away all on their own eventually. You can’t temp fate that much and not eventually meet yours.
- sib 3y ago
  Grappling hook through the front wheel fixes that right away...
  - wutwutwat 3y ago
    So we should kill people for loud exhausts? What about the innocent bystander the bike turns into jelly when it is catapulted into the air and lands on them? That energy has to go somewhere…
    - pixl97 3y ago
      Ya know, part of the reason cops should enforce the laws on the books is to keep people from going all Batman when they get tired of lawlessness.
alexfoo 3y ago
It's just the odd love of the Harley or similar. I got pulled over for noise (in the UK) as my ZX6-R had a hole in the downpipes and it was obviously a bit too noisy. I was trying my best to keep the noise down and (genuinely, provably) on my way to drop the bike off to have it repaired. The Cop that pulled me over was happy to chat about it when I explained that it was on its way to get fixed he let me off. Then a Harley that was twice as loud went past and the cop says "Cor, doesn't that sound lovely!" I asked him if he was going to pull it over for being louder than mine and he suddenly got very grumpy with me again. I didn't push any further as I didn't want to end up with a fine. What's the old line? "Harley's are probably the most efficient machine to turn gasoline into noise without that pesky by-product of horsepower."

pseg134 3y ago

To be fair to that cop I think you were too. Did you try solving the problem for yourself first?

genter 3y ago
Being woken up 1:00 in the morning multiple times a week by the walls of my house shaking from my neighbors vehicles makes me a pansy? But I did talk to them. Turns out he lives with his mom, and she just bitched me out.