That is not always a good policy. If you worked third shift and had to sleep during the day, would it be okay if I, as your next door neighbor, was always revving up a loud engine in my driveway or shooting guns in my yard during the day?
As if Harleys weren't annoying enough...
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Many people today, usually young ones, have one overriding motivation in all they do.
"LOOK AT ME!"
My exhaust is loud.
"LOOK AT MEE!"
My subwoofers will rattle the shingles off your roof.
"LOOK AT MEEE!"
I'm fast. I'm furious.
"LOOOOK AT MEEEE!"
I've got tattoos on my eyeballs and studs in my sphincter.
PLEEESE, LOOK AT MEee, please."
"LOOK AT ME!"
My exhaust is loud.
"LOOK AT MEE!"
My subwoofers will rattle the shingles off your roof.
"LOOK AT MEEE!"
I'm fast. I'm furious.
"LOOOOK AT MEEEE!"
I've got tattoos on my eyeballs and studs in my sphincter.
PLEEESE, LOOK AT MEee, please."
You didn't comprehend what I wrote? You even quoted it.
"when I'm in a populated area, I keep the tunes down."
Hairtrigger
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Same as being in the hood and a car with 30” rims and the bass pounding at a stoplight
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Va. had a law against such noise that could be heard 25’ or more from vehicle, not sure its still enforced.
Come to think of it very few vehicle laws are enforced. Having lunch with 2 long time buddies that are both retired LEO’s. One I’ve been after for 20 years to write a book which would be a best seller.
Come to think of it very few vehicle laws are enforced. Having lunch with 2 long time buddies that are both retired LEO’s. One I’ve been after for 20 years to write a book which would be a best seller.
I don't mind loud, except the 4 bangers to me sound just plain odd but the louder the engine the more likely the owner can't seem to quite get it timed right.
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Self-defense, most drivers are too busy daydreaming or texting to see us unless they hear us. No music for me except what my springer soft tail with Vance & Hines Longshots makes.
Loud pipes save lives! As Pink Floyd aptly put it: I can’t explain, you would not understand.
I currently have 3 of the offensive noise polluters.
2009 Road Glide
1998 Wide Glide
2007 Road King
I currently have 3 of the offensive noise polluters.
2009 Road Glide
1998 Wide Glide
2007 Road King
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DoubleNickel
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My first thought as soon as I read the thread title LOL
LVSteve
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This. On long trips I drive a Mercedes SUV, generally considered to be a quiet and refined vehicle. Even so, these days I find that I cannot listen to music when driving. More often than not the road noise from the freeway is such that by the time I get the volume up high enough to hear the music half-properly, the resulting cacophony is too loud. This is hardly a new thing, I've been this way since the early 90s. Maybe it is one of the reasons I have better hearing than most of my peers.
I would rather live next to a waste plutonium trench at Hanford than live on a busy road. Loud and obnoxious is the new norm for far too many...be it motorcycles, pickups, ratty cars, etc. Just another symptom of the degradation of civil society. Post #10 sums it up nicely...we don't care. I can hear a mouse pass wind a mile away...excellent hearing can be a curse.
Love me a springer !
About 10 years I owned an FLHTCI and the music was played maybe a dozen times. Bought it because I always liked geezer glides even when I wasn’t one. First bagger, FLH, had no radio. Loved that Shovel though.
With the many impaired and inattentive drivers on the road I gladly have gone to 4 wheels and a cage.
I don’t play radios loud in my car either….ok, maybe a favorite Motown tune.
With the many impaired and inattentive drivers on the road I gladly have gone to 4 wheels and a cage.
I don’t play radios loud in my car either….ok, maybe a favorite Motown tune.
The sound is an expected and understandable result when taking a big V-8 engine from something like 200 hp to 400 hp.
But when a HD gains 10 or so hp from it…
And still weighs 850lbs or more…
Then it’s just for the noise.
Yes, many will say “Loud pipes save lives” but most of that noise goes behind you.
I’ve heard people make fun of other riders for “dressing like a traffic cone” while they have the smallest taillights and turn signals possible. That’s fine, but it’s hard to take them serious as an advocate for motorcycle awareness when they also say “Loud pipes save lives”.
I miss the old days when you bought a Harley and only had to replace the mufflers, air cleaner, and rejet the carb to make it sound like a Harley should. On my newer fuel injected bike I had to replace the entire exhaust system, change the backing plate on the air cleaner, and buy a tuner. Cost me over $2K for the "sound" not noise I wanted.
In my truck going down the expressway I'd never hear loud pipes over the off road tire noise, stereo, and the build quality to keep outside noises outside. Loud pipes ain't gonna save anyone these days.
I did upgrade all my lights to LED's and added a couple to the back after following a bike like mine one night. Those 2 little factory tail/brake lights didn't show up at all.
After Michigan repealed the helmet law, I equate loud pipes with the term "potential organ donor" because it seems the louder the bike, the less likely the owner is to have a helmet.
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I call them donorcycles.
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Harley had an ad many years ago in Easyrider...
"If you want all the comforts of home, stay there"
"If you want all the comforts of home, stay there"
