As if Harleys weren't annoying enough...

[CajunBass]

Never owned or even ridden a Harley, but on my Beemer, it was really nice to set the cruise control, and get the sterio set just right. Even better, catch a ball game late at night. Who cared who was playing?

Of course, I didn't have to turn the sound up too much. The Beemer was pretty quiet anyway.

 

[BarryinIN]

Loud biker music or kidney stone-breaking bass music. Humm, which is more annoying?

Thumping bass for the easy “win”.
And I’m not a fan of loud biker music, but at least I can see why they feel they need it loud.

 

[BarryinIN]

Never owned or even ridden a Harley, but on my Beemer, it was really nice to set the cruise control, and get the sterio set just right. Even better, catch a ball game late at night. Who cared who was playing?

Of course, I didn't have to turn the sound up too much. The Beemer was pretty quiet anyway.

Which model is that?

 

[Yendor357]

I have nothing against Harley’s or the pirates that ride them. Just scoot over when a high velocity sport bike comes up on your six. Let me pass. I know I’m number one. You don’t have to hold up the one finger to tell me.

 

[clang444]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

If it makes someone happy to start fires, it is not ok for him to burn your house down.

Just like if it makes someone happy to be loud, it is not ok for him to disturb someone else’s peace.


Do what you want to, do what you will.
Just don’t mess up you neighbors thrill.
And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip.
- Frank Zappa

 

[dockmurgw]

If it makes someone happy to start fires, it is not ok for him to burn your house down.

Just like if it makes someone happy to be loud, it is not ok for him to disturb someone else’s peace.


Do what you want to, do what you will.
Just don’t mess up you neighbors thrill.
And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip.
- Frank Zappa

Not everyone will acknowledge that the pursuit of happiness thing is a two-way street...one person's happiness at the expense of another's is not OK...in my opinion. I have a dimwit that regularly blazes by with loud pipes on his Harley and a blaring stereo, right by a neighbor who's house sits 5 paces off the road. Couple in their 90's who are driven to tears from the incessant noise of obnoxiously loud vehicles. It sucks to be them; they are not entitled to their happiness.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If it makes someone happy to start fires, it is not ok for him to burn your house down.

Just like if it makes someone happy to be loud, it is not ok for him to disturb someone else’s peace.


Do what you want to, do what you will.
Just don’t mess up you neighbors thrill.
And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip.
- Frank Zappa

Arson is a crime. Riding a tricked out bike with tunes isn't. Ohio Revised Code 4513.22 Has no actually db cutoff for either as it is descretionary on the officer on site. It just states the exhaust or tunes can't be "excessive" or "unusual".

 

[CajunBass]

Which model is that?

A BMW K-1200-LT (Light Tank). I think it was a 2003, but I bought it used a long time ago. My memory ain't what it never was.

 

[Doriangray6]

While most motorcycle exhausts can be modified or replaced to improve performance this doesn't have to result in being annoyingly loud and metric bikes with after market or altered exhaust systems can be even more annoying than Harley's.
Plus, as I used to tell my students at MMI with annoyingly loud bikes, that sound you hear is horsepower going out of your exhaust pipe instead of to the rear wheel.

 

[wood714]

Local police make a lot of money during Bike Week getting the idiots that want to be obsessively loud.

Never happens any other time of year, and I doubt any of them are locals.

Police Crack Down on Loud Stereos at Daytona Bike Week

In this Daytona Bike Week 2025 video on Main Street our live cam spots Police cracking down on loud stereos and music. We will go on the search for some of the coolest bikes we

www.cycledrag.com

 

[ladder13]

If it makes someone happy to start fires, it is not ok for him to burn your house down.

Just like if it makes someone happy to be loud, it is not ok for him to disturb someone else’s peace.


Do what you want to, do what you will.
Just don’t mess up you neighbors thrill.
And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip.
- Frank

Or blasting your stereo at 1am in the morning, or smoking a cigarette on an airplane, or a million other things. Stepping on others quest for happiness is the pursuit of getting a comeuppance.
People get sent to the hospital quite often because of their bloated self importance.

 

[wood714]

Plus, as I used to tell my students at MMI with annoyingly loud bikes, that sound you hear is horsepower going out of your exhaust pipe instead of to the rear wheel.

I wonder why these folks don't run catalytic converters, and mufflers on their cars? Would they get more horsepower if they did?

 

[Rustyt1953]

If it makes someone happy to start fires, it is not ok for him to burn your house down.

Just like if it makes someone happy to be loud, it is not ok for him to disturb someone else’s peace.


Do what you want to, do what you will.
Just don’t mess up you neighbors thrill.
And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip.
- Frank Zappa

If it makes someone happy to start fires, it is not ok for him to burn your house down.

Just like if it makes someone happy to be loud, it is not ok for him to disturb someone else’s peace.


Do what you want to, do what you will.
Just don’t mess up you neighbors thrill.
And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip.
- Frank Zappa

I neither drive not have a Harley so I am not a problem.

There are many Harley baggers and muscle cars in this small city of 64,344 which is north west of Cincinnati bordering farm country.

They often tool up and down my quiet street. The boys and I like the way they sound.

 

[wood714]

Bikers and Harley's go way back in my family.

 

[Golddollar]

Ohio Revised Code 4513.22 Has no actually db cutoff for either as it is descretionary on the officer on site. It just states the exhaust or tunes can't be "excessive" or "unusual".

This is the kind of thing I objected to when our town was thinking of enacting a noise ordinance. Who makes the determination as to what is "excessive" or "unusual?" All it takes is one person who thinks he had been treated unfairly to instigate litigation.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I don’ t mind loud pipes if their purpose is just to get some attention. I don’t like them if I have to ride with them. That goes as much for some dirt bikes and Ducatis as it does for Harleys. “Loud pipes save lives” is pure BS, a sociopath’s attempt to justify behavior that he knows is obnoxious. I have ridden a lot of Harleys, but have never yet ridden one that I thought was a decent motorcycle. That’s okay, ride what you like. The most annoying thing about them is that they are always in the way. They are just too slow on the road, especially when a big pack of them forms a rolling roadblock. Even then, many riders will see faster bikes coming and will move over to give passing room. Others just get belligerent.

 

[65Whelen]

Get off my lawn!

 

[Doriangray6]

Me at 1 year old in Milwaukee sitting with my dad on my mom's 125 single cylinder Hummer. He rode an Indian which unfortunately I have no pics of.
Me with my Weiner dog on my Pan-Knuckle headed from Colorado to Texas sometime in the 70s. Me and Red, my Rat Shovel, at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy in 86, and me in 2005 with Ebony, my 01 FXDXT, in Cheyenne.
Over time I had a couple other bikes but have no pics of them and after 74 years of living and 50 years of riding the wear and tear finally caught up with me last year and I had to stop riding but I managed to log a bit over 300K on the road in that time including wandering through 49 of the 50 states along with parts of Australia and several European countries.
I still have Red and Ebony and will be passing them on to a friend in Missouri as soon as I get done rebuilding Red's front end and putting a new set of heads on him.

 

[Doriangray6]

I wonder why these folks don't run catalytic converters, and mufflers on their cars? Would they get more horsepower if they did?

Those aren't cars, they're rockets with wheels.

 

[Spajohn]

"Here I sit with a broken heart
Took a handful of pills and my hog won't start."
~Biker's lament