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Where's the quest to make motorcycles a huge bit quieter? I am so fed up with all the loud motorcycles in my city. Seems pretty arrogant of people with loud veh

Where's the quest to make motorcycles a huge bit quieter? I am so fed up with all the loud motorcycles in my city. Seems pretty arrogant of people with loud vehicles to think that we all want to hear them.

AdrianB1 1y ago
This is an old problem that was solved and not solved. Most motorcycles in the past 25 years are decently quiet, unless you rev it up at night and everyone will hear it. But it is the same with the cars. At the same time, there is a significant number of motorcycles with non-street legal mufflers that add some decibels, you hear those even during the day at low revs. I have 2 bikes, both stock exhaust, both quiet. The older one with the Euro 3 and larger engine is more quiet than the one that is Euro 5 and has a small engine, but none is loud enough to wake anyone at night if I come home at that time. At the same time, a couple of neighbors with fancy Akrapovic cans will wake up the entire street every time they pass by.
- henearkr 1y ago
  Alternatively, just switch to electric bikes maybe? So that, even if they want to try and be noisy, they cannot really? (except with loud music maybe, but that's completely different, wayyyy less stressful for people around, and it's already possible so that would not add a new problem)
odiroot 1y ago
If anything modern motorcycles are sometimes a bit too quiet. The stock exhausts make them sound like cars when idling. And low-revving engines can barely cut through the traffic noise.
- henearkr 1y ago
  Ok the kind of narrative you are pushing should definitely be banned along with the noisy machines themselves. As some have said in the comments, it has been debunked numerous times in studies. With the same reasoning as yours, I'll have a 500W HiFi with speakers and subwoofers on me, shouting annoying and loud noise continuously while I walk in the streets? To be noticed when I cross as a pedestrian or on my bicycle? Or, like, people could just careful? Around me people drive carefully and they don't hurt cyclists or electric bikes.

AdrianB1 1y ago

This is an old problem that was solved and not solved. Most motorcycles in the past 25 years are decently quiet, unless you rev it up at night and everyone will hear it. But it is the same with the cars. At the same time, there is a significant number of motorcycles with non-street legal mufflers that add some decibels, you hear those even during the day at low revs. I have 2 bikes, both stock exhaust, both quiet. The older one with the Euro 3 and larger engine is more quiet than the one that is Euro 5 and has a small engine, but none is loud enough to wake anyone at night if I come home at that time. At the same time, a couple of neighbors with fancy Akrapovic cans will wake up the entire street every time they pass by.

henearkr 1y ago
Alternatively, just switch to electric bikes maybe? So that, even if they want to try and be noisy, they cannot really? (except with loud music maybe, but that's completely different, wayyyy less stressful for people around, and it's already possible so that would not add a new problem)

odiroot 1y ago

If anything modern motorcycles are sometimes a bit too quiet. The stock exhausts make them sound like cars when idling. And low-revving engines can barely cut through the traffic noise.

henearkr 1y ago
Ok the kind of narrative you are pushing should definitely be banned along with the noisy machines themselves. As some have said in the comments, it has been debunked numerous times in studies. With the same reasoning as yours, I'll have a 500W HiFi with speakers and subwoofers on me, shouting annoying and loud noise continuously while I walk in the streets? To be noticed when I cross as a pedestrian or on my bicycle? Or, like, people could just careful? Around me people drive carefully and they don't hurt cyclists or electric bikes.