loud motorcycle question
- Thread starter jpn
- Start date
Mountain Bike Mike
Well-Known Member
If you see a bike hauling ass, do you even try to stop them or just think - You'll scrape him off the road in a little while?
wonderturtle
Well-Known Member
might be apples to oranges. Navesink River Road isnt really a "busy road". gets the occasional truck that rocks the house (I am one house in) but other than that its a two-lane collector. so road noise is not an issue. so, to me, the motorcycles arent adding to a cacophony, they are just providing some "aural color"
rick81721
Lothar
Anything stock is legal - like the dual exhaust mode on the GT350?
@davidcarson48
How many times have you said fuck it with Motos?
I can count on two hands how many times I have ditched the five0 in my youngin days.
Ask @capedoc feels about these in New Hope.
How many times have you said fuck it with Motos?
I can count on two hands how many times I have ditched the five0 in my youngin days.
Ask @capedoc feels about these in New Hope.
Last edited:
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
IMO they're annoying as fuck. Nobody but you cares that the defining sound coming from your motorcycle is "cool"
That being said, there's not much you can do about it. I do tons of annoying shit as well.
That being said, there's not much you can do about it. I do tons of annoying shit as well.
njmark
Professional Cyclist
Loud pipes lose rights. And make you a colossal shitstain in the process. The worst day of the year is the Kelsey Run, when all of the identically equipped individualists yearning to be a part time pirate rumble by making a sad spectacle of themselves. I never thought I would learn to hate a charity event but unfortunately grown men who still think leather vests and tassles are cool have made it happen. Rant over.
I know many avid bikers. Had a neighbor who was amazing basket case transformer. Award winning '57 sportster. Fact is total asset of HD alone is around 10 billion on open market, I am sure a few cycle company's would like to have that. It's a life style and loud goes with it. Most of the people who can afford HDs these days are overweight mid life crisis with a want be attitude. Then again it is not much different in the cycling community now is it.
Ask them what they think of spandex wearing cyclist who ride 2-3 abreast.
gtluke
The Moped
At least they are only annoying the people currently driving in that direction instead of everyone in a 2 Mile radius.
It doesn't even sound good. 60deg vtwin. God what an awful engine design.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
That's kind of how putting a 3" straight pipe on a Honda 1.5L will make you power. Or how a high flow air filter will save you on gas money.
gtluke
The Moped
Making a civic loud is exactly the same as making a Harley loud. WHY BOTHER.
if you want something fast, buy something better.
If they are speeding a bit but are riding safely otherwise, I'll usually give them a pass. If they are riding recklessly, I'll still give it a try and hope he gets a red light or hits traffic. If he takes off, he takes off and so be it. When I was much much younger (1999 I think), I pursued a cycle and he crashed into a parked car at about 60mph. He lost the use of his right arm and nearly lost the arm completely. I don't want to be the guy pursuing the dude who kills ends up killing himself. I get sued enough as it is. 🙂
Anything stock and sold in the USA. Correct. Weird, right?
Motos a few times, quads much more frequently. I like seeing them go down the RR tracks at about 80mph. It looks fun.
jpn
Active Member
does this same principle apply to the bicycle realm, i.e. FAT BIKES?
just asking...
anyway, thanks for all the responses. I wasn't too confrontational. To give a complete picture, the guy on the Moto really could have kicked my ass so I wasn't going to really get into it with him. I looked like a complete dork - I was riding my KM ss with big apples and wearing cut off camo shorts, a camo baseball hat and camo gloves with a bright red pearl izumi jacket and my black shimano shoes and black socks so I probably deserved everything I got verbally from him just for what I was wearing. I - rode off when he told me to f...off and it didn't ruin my ride or day - it was so nice yesterday. I really enjoyed the riding weather all last week and today - got in some nice road rides.
I appreciate everyone's perspectives on this. far worse things to get agitated about, but like I said, I get the loud bike thing, especially with HD and that whole culture/image - heck, I am almost 50 and if I could I would be a long haired/long bearded southern rock band dude. I just wish the really, really loud bikes would be less loud.
and Matty, you are so right about the spandex crowd riding 3 abreast on the road. totally obnoxious. Same with the Moto guys weaving through traffic congestion or passing on the shoulder or going 100 mph down the road. no sympathy if they get dead. and then there are poor guys riding their bike to work or doing charity rides and just out riding and they get killed by cars. awful.
thanks for the feedback.
gtluke
The Moped
Thankfully it came equipped with hardware of this century, so it actually responds to modifications.
And I put on the largest muffler i could possibly fit on the car. Plus an additional baffle.
But it's still kinda loud. Because it actually makes power.
