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The worst part about this is that the motorcyclists stay out longer and longer until it gets below 10 degrees. I live in the "quiet countryside" and all I hear

The worst part about this is that the motorcyclists stay out longer and longer until it gets below 10 degrees. I live in the "quiet countryside" and all I hear on the weekends, holidays, and often Monday/Tuesday is over the top loud motorbikes racing past my house.

monster_truck 1y ago
lol
brendoelfrendo 1y ago
You should try riding, it's fun.
- shoobiedoo 1y ago
  I'd love to to try a motorcycle that doesn't disturb people for at least a half kilometre around me while I wear comfy ear protection, sure. Unfortunately that isn't anywhere close to the norm in Japan
  - bigiain 1y ago
    Those motorcycles definitely exist, and are pretty much just as much fun to ride as the noisy ones - except for the extrovert, obnoxious, or insecure riders who _need_ noisy exhausts. At least here in Australia, any new bike you buy off a dealership has to meet the noise regulations, and under normal use they're almost as quiet as modern cars. The noisy ones you hear are all modified or old, perhaps both (a bike needs to be pre 1972 in Australia to be completely exempt from modern noise restrictions.) There are even fully electric motorcycles available, but they're really not prime time "just go down to a dealer and buy one, and get it serviced everywhere" ready yet. (Full disclosure, 2 or my 5 motorcycles have noisy exhausts. Not "hear from half a kilometer away" loud, but technically illegally loud and definitely loud enough that I take extra care arriving or departing home very late or early, out of respect for my neighbors. Interestingly for this discussion, the 3 bikes with quiet, factory stock, 100% road legal exhausts are all Japanese - in fact all Hondas. The noisy bikes are both Italian - a Ducati and a Cagiva.)
    - shoobiedoo 1y ago
      It's just "one of those things about Japan" that, since citizens don't bring it up, foreigners aren't really allowed to either. I'm just a little salty because I just went to two baseball games in kumamoto where my son was playing, and there were motorbikes somewhere, just doing laps I guess, for four hours straight. Everyone had to raise their voices when talking. I couldn't see any bikes, or even any well paved roads around the park. Just four hours straight of noise. I will never understand why that is perfectly okay but talking loud in a restaurant will get you fired and ostracized. shrug cultural stuff I guess
lyall 1y ago
I agree, the worst part about climate change is motorcyclists riding past this guy's house.
- shoobiedoo 1y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
evil-olive 1y ago
global warming is also causing an increase in the "wet-bulb temperature" [0] > Given the body's vital requirement to maintain a core temperature of approximately 37 °C (99 °F), a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) — equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) — is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, semi-nude in the shade and next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it. in those conditions, your body can no longer cool itself down by sweating and having the sweat evaporate. simply being outside, or inside without air-conditioning, will result in potentially fatal hyperthermia. but I'm sorry to hear that there's motorcycles driving past your house. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_temperature_and_health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...
rester324 1y ago
I wouldn't say it's the worst part, but it's definitely a common disturbance in japan that these idiots called bousouzoku ride around in quiet neighborhoods with their mufflers modified that they are screaming as loud or exceeding 110 but sometimes even 110 db. And they really look like idiots when for example I easily pass them on my road bike in the Shonan area on road 134 because the roads are too narrow there to pass any cars even on a motorbike (mostly just the roadbikes are able to pass there), and they are just inching forward in the traffic with 2 km/h while revving their engines. Absolute losers. And the longer summer definitely encourages these idiots to be a nuisance longer

monster_truck 1y ago

lol

brendoelfrendo 1y ago

You should try riding, it's fun.

shoobiedoo 1y ago
I'd love to to try a motorcycle that doesn't disturb people for at least a half kilometre around me while I wear comfy ear protection, sure. Unfortunately that isn't anywhere close to the norm in Japan
- bigiain 1y ago
  Those motorcycles definitely exist, and are pretty much just as much fun to ride as the noisy ones - except for the extrovert, obnoxious, or insecure riders who _need_ noisy exhausts. At least here in Australia, any new bike you buy off a dealership has to meet the noise regulations, and under normal use they're almost as quiet as modern cars. The noisy ones you hear are all modified or old, perhaps both (a bike needs to be pre 1972 in Australia to be completely exempt from modern noise restrictions.) There are even fully electric motorcycles available, but they're really not prime time "just go down to a dealer and buy one, and get it serviced everywhere" ready yet. (Full disclosure, 2 or my 5 motorcycles have noisy exhausts. Not "hear from half a kilometer away" loud, but technically illegally loud and definitely loud enough that I take extra care arriving or departing home very late or early, out of respect for my neighbors. Interestingly for this discussion, the 3 bikes with quiet, factory stock, 100% road legal exhausts are all Japanese - in fact all Hondas. The noisy bikes are both Italian - a Ducati and a Cagiva.)
  - shoobiedoo 1y ago
    It's just "one of those things about Japan" that, since citizens don't bring it up, foreigners aren't really allowed to either. I'm just a little salty because I just went to two baseball games in kumamoto where my son was playing, and there were motorbikes somewhere, just doing laps I guess, for four hours straight. Everyone had to raise their voices when talking. I couldn't see any bikes, or even any well paved roads around the park. Just four hours straight of noise. I will never understand why that is perfectly okay but talking loud in a restaurant will get you fired and ostracized. shrug cultural stuff I guess

lyall 1y ago

I agree, the worst part about climate change is motorcyclists riding past this guy's house.

shoobiedoo 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

evil-olive 1y ago

global warming is also causing an increase in the "wet-bulb temperature" [0] > Given the body's vital requirement to maintain a core temperature of approximately 37 °C (99 °F), a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) — equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) — is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, semi-nude in the shade and next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it. in those conditions, your body can no longer cool itself down by sweating and having the sweat evaporate. simply being outside, or inside without air-conditioning, will result in potentially fatal hyperthermia. but I'm sorry to hear that there's motorcycles driving past your house. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_temperature_and_health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...

rester324 1y ago

I wouldn't say it's the worst part, but it's definitely a common disturbance in japan that these idiots called bousouzoku ride around in quiet neighborhoods with their mufflers modified that they are screaming as loud or exceeding 110 but sometimes even 110 db. And they really look like idiots when for example I easily pass them on my road bike in the Shonan area on road 134 because the roads are too narrow there to pass any cars even on a motorbike (mostly just the roadbikes are able to pass there), and they are just inching forward in the traffic with 2 km/h while revving their engines. Absolute losers. And the longer summer definitely encourages these idiots to be a nuisance longer