Not to mention the stereos cranked up to 11. Rarely classic rock, and everyone can hear it a block away except the rider.

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Just the other day while sitting at a light I heard a motorcycle, somewhere. He was sitting beside me in my blind spot, a position all drivers in Kentucky seem to prefer. If was to, like so many I see lately, turn right from the left lane I would not have known he was there aside the noise.
I don’t like noisy pipes either but cyclist need everything possible to try to get a little awareness from the average semi-lucid, uninsured, driver concentrating on their phone screen.

Finally, someone gets it...

There are idiots in all aspects of our lives, soccer moms who drive looking at their phones with their kids in the car, BMW drivers who think ever street is the autoban, Ricers with fart box mufflers, and yes some bikers have extremely loud pipes.

If you ride long enough you will see people look right at you and yet not see you. They will make left turns right in front of you, whats best, just crash into them or lay the bike down and try to have at least a little control of your future. Like the guy who ditched in the Hudson, a real long shot but it was a better chance than just crashing...Yes there are idiots in all walks of life...

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Why does anyone NEED a car or suv with 5-600hp?

They don't. Most people don't NEED anything more than a Toyota Corolla or Subaru Impreza and NO one NEEDS a motorcycle. (A whole lot of people want them though.)

Nobody needs a gun with more than 6 bullets....


I get the dislike of the loud pipes,

Hhowever it's not HD that are the worst it's the monkey fucking a football sport bike racer wannabees with $2000 Asstropoovic pipes that shreek so loud it will blow out your ear drums that are the worst.. HD loud pipes are quiet compared to these riders.


Louder pipes have kept cars off me that were moving over into my lane right on top of me, motorcycle horns are not that loud, but people to react to the louder exhaust.

As for the loud aholes at a stoplight revving the engine, the make of the motorcycle isn't relevant, Douch bags ride all kinds...

On my street, it's not motorcycles, but pickup trucks. I just assume they are compensating for something they lack.

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Originally posted by OneWheelDrive:
On my street, it's not motorcycles, but pickup trucks. I just assume they are compensating for something they lack.

At a BMW motorcycle rally a while back a few ladies were wearing T-shirts that read "The louder the bike the smaller the penis". I guess it could apply to trucks as well.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
They don't. Most people don't NEED anything more than a Toyota Corolla or Subaru Impreza and NO one NEEDS a motorcycle. (A whole lot of people want them though.)

Exactly. You don't need loud pipes, you want them. And that's alright.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
The real reason is they like hearing their loud exhaust and (mistakenly) believe others will be impressed with their loud motorcycle. "Look at me". Some car and pick up owners do the loud exhaust thing for the same reason. Then there the cowboys in their big rigs using their obscenely loud Jake brakes on level roads through towns and neighborhoods.

I agree give tickets for noise pollution and don't forget those shrieking leaf blowers! My friend and I were sitting on her porch enjoying our coffee when two different lawn crews showed up at two of her neighbors. Two mowers along with 2-3 weed eaters fired up all at the same time, it was awful. Then rather than use a broom (they don't use brooms anymore) they fired up the blowers which sounded like little jet engines. We finally gave up and moved inside.

DO you really expect a commercial yard business to use a broom? Should they go back to non motorized lawn mowers too???

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Originally posted by 1860ARMY:
...or lay the bike down and try to have at least a little control of your future.

Never understood the fascination some riders have with (or even having the slightest notion of being ok with) "layin' it down." "Yeah, I had to lay 'er down." Uh huh. Let's see...you wrecked to avoid wrecking. Ridiculous.

Laying the bike down is not having a little control of your future. It's giving up and turning your future over to physics. You have a much better chance of controlling your future with the tires on the ground.

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Originally posted by OneWheelDrive:
On my street, it's not motorcycles, but pickup trucks. I just assume they are compensating for something they lack.

Yes, those are getting seriously obnoxious also, especially the guys with diesel pickups with trucker pipes stick up above the cab, and then they add some kit to it where it'll blow extremely thick black smoke out of them! First one of those I ever saw was over near Athens, GA a few years back, but they're starting to show up here in north Alabammy now...

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

DO you really expect a commercial yard business to use a broom? Should they go back to non motorized lawn mowers too???

Me? In quiet neighborhoods, fuck yes use a broom and just leave most of the grass clippings where they are rather than blowing them out on the street. If they feel they MUST use blowers be considerate and use battery ones that are not nearly so loud.

Modern 6hp gas mowers aren't so obnoxious and IMO battery ones would be appropriate doing small yards in tight developments. But lawn crews that trailer in 30hp stand-on, seen their better days, loud ass, mowers, are simply inconsiderate. To them it's all about them, hell with what others feel. No different than loud cars and motorcycles.

Conversation at a gas station.

Hey, you damned near ran me off the road.

What? I can hear so good.

I SAID YOU DAMNED NEAR RAN ME OFF THE ROAD !!!

Well, don't ride in my blind spot.

COULDN'T YOU HEAR MY BIKE, IT'S AS LOUD AS I CAN GET IT !!!

I can't hear shit like that anymore. Too many years of loud motorcycles blasting my ears.

Note the lesson to be learned here is don't rely on needless noise to protect you. Pay attention to where you are positioned in traffic and Do NOT ride in someones Blind Spot

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Originally posted by Scooter123:
Pay attention to where you are positioned in traffic and Do NOT ride in someones Blind Spot

Probably the closest I've come to being hit was my fault for a very similar error. On a 4 lane road, I was in the right lane with a delivery truck just ahead in the left lane, as we approached an intersection. There was a left turning car in the opposite direction, whom I could not see, nor could she see me. Because of traffic she did exactly what we all do, turn close in behind the truck during an apparent gap in traffic. Except I was there.

Really just pure luck that she was alert and hit her brakes while I swerved onto the shoulder. Totally my fault for being in a stupid place.

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Originally posted by ridewv:

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

DO you really expect a commercial yard business to use a broom? Should they go back to non motorized lawn mowers too???

Me? In quiet neighborhoods, fuck yes use a broom and just leave most of the grass clippings where they are rather than blowing them out on the street. If they feel they MUST use blowers be considerate and use battery ones that are not nearly so loud.

Modern 6hp gas mowers aren't so obnoxious and IMO battery ones would be appropriate doing small yards in tight developments. But lawn crews that trailer in 30hp stand-on, seen their better days, loud ass, mowers, are simply inconsiderate. To them it's all about them, hell with what others feel. No different than loud cars and motorcycles.

Hey I though you lived in WV not California!

I have the electric EGO blower and it's not as loud as gas but the sound of the motor turning the fan still makes a lot of noise. Neighbor has the EGO riding mower, you don't hear the engine but you can hear the blades turning from well across the street, sounds like a small airplane.....

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Originally posted by HRK:

Hey I though you lived in WV not California!

I have the electric EGO blower and it's not as loud as gas but the sound of the motor turning the fan still makes a lot of noise. Neighbor has the EGO riding mower, you don't hear the engine but you can hear the blades turning from well across the street, sounds like a small airplane.....

I guess I do sound a little anti-motor, anti lawn care, in this thread but really I'm not. For one thing these crews were compounding each other running multiple mowers, weed eaters, and blowers all together, one crew directly across the street the other right beside her. The mowers looked and sounded like they'd seen their better days emitting a lot of smoke at start up, less when running but still present, and way noisier than my 25 hp mowers. The weed eaters seemed way louder than my Stihl trimmer as well, whether they were some super powerful ones or just had their spark arresters removed (likely both) I don't know.
The back pack gasoline blowers looked very powerful and certainly sounded it. My Stihl battery blower gently blows clippings off a couple concrete pads and my walk and the high speed fan certainly makes some noise doing so. But these units were at a whole different level, think Piper Cub and F14.

I'm probably more sensitive to stuff like this since at my house there are no neighbors within sight, and can I barely hear one using a tractor or shooting.

Lot sizes in her development might be 1/4 acre so within a small 3/4 acre area were 3 lots with a bunch of quite loud equipment all running at the same times so quite annoying just like obnoxiously loud motorcycles would be riding circles around your house for 45 minutes.