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Pig Skill
1,368 posts
73 months
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Motorbike riders who needlessly blip the throttle of their s  tty bikes at traffic lights. Relax guys - it's not gonna stall you pathetic f king maggots
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George H
10,485 posts
34 months
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Pig Skill said: Motorbike riders who needlessly blip the throttle of their s tty bikes at traffic lights. Relax guys - it's not gonna stall you pathetic f king maggots I love them doing it, sounds great 
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elvismiggell
926 posts
21 months
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George H said: I love them doing it, sounds great Doesn't sound so great when it's late at night.
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Blown2CV
6,788 posts
73 months
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moped with silencing removed. Horrid wasp buzzing round your head noise. Silly little boys.
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e21Mark
1,863 posts
43 months
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This. 
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SonnyM
2,723 posts
63 months
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The t t in the Volvo sitting 1 inch from my bumper on the M1 as I overtook a car at legal speeds in my Porsche with an elderly passenger, after which he passed and swerved in front of me to try and make me crash my car.
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StottyZr
4,194 posts
33 months
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e21Mark said: This. He could at least space his f king wheels. Just lazy
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WhoseGeneration
4,090 posts
77 months
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Blown2CV said: moped with silencing removed. Horrid wasp buzzing round your head noise. Silly little boys. I wholeheartedly agree but then think back some 48 years and that I was then that "silly little boy" on my home tuned BSA Bantam, just waiting to pass my test, to then get a big motorcycle to be able to "do the ton". All maturity brings is the appreciation that being "silly" is best practised alone. You, always a paragon of virtue on the roads I presume?
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Liquid Knight
10,609 posts
53 months
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Pig Skill said: Motorbike riders who needlessly blip the throttle of their s tty bikes at traffic lights. Some lights use sensors to tell if someone's waiting. Cars are big enough to set them off with no problem but bikes can be too small. Blipping the throttle can set them off.
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Pig Skill
1,368 posts
73 months
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Traffic lights use inductance loops in the ground that are 'disturbed' by the metal from a car/bike chassis/frame or engine. Can't see why revving an engine makes a difference.  : Oh, wait a min; you're joking. Aren't you? scratchchin:
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Liquid Knight
10,609 posts
53 months
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Pig Skill said: Traffic lights use inductance loops in the ground that are 'disturbed' by the metal from a car/bike chassis/frame or engine. Can't see why revving an engine makes a difference. : Oh, wait a min; you're joking. Aren't you? scratchchin: Induction loops are basically metal detectors but as I suggested some bikes are either too small or the fairings can act as insulators. The easiest way to interfere with an induction loop is by generating one of your own. So revving the engine rotates the alternator/generator/magneto quicker as this current passes through the loom it creates an electromagnetic field that can be detected by the inductance loop. Provide you have an open circuit that rents the length of the frame (lights or brake lights) that electromagnetic field can polarise your frame (unless it's Aluminium) adding to the overall effect.
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terenceb
319 posts
41 months
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StottyZr said: He could at least space his f king wheels. Just lazy His race Wheels are back at his w/shop.
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Blown2CV
6,788 posts
73 months
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WhoseGeneration said: Blown2CV said: moped with silencing removed. Horrid wasp buzzing round your head noise. Silly little boys. I wholeheartedly agree but then think back some 48 years and that I was then that "silly little boy" on my home tuned BSA Bantam, just waiting to pass my test, to then get a big motorcycle to be able to "do the ton". All maturity brings is the appreciation that being "silly" is best practised alone. You, always a paragon of virtue on the roads I presume? No i would have just thought you were a silly little boy too had you deafened me with the buzz from whatever it was your were riding. To be honest I don't even know what a BSA Bantam sounds like, as you were probably my age now by the time I was born. Mopeds with loud exhausts emit an extremely horrid and intrusively pitched noise. Just because you used to do something when you were young doesn't make it right or acceptable, and the innocence of youth does not trump all wrongdoing. If you were a car thief back in the day would you still look back with misty eyes and chastise anyone who said car thieving was a bad thing, citing youthful innocence? You may well look back that half century to your younger days with rose tinted specs, but no, of course you wouldn't endeavour to justify everything you did, and neither would I. There are plenty of silly things that teenage boys do (you only have to look at the badly modified cars thread to see, and witness grown men chastising them in abundance), and so I stand by my comments entirely. No-one is exempt from criticism, including me and of course you. So I criticise you for being clearly of the opinion that just because it happens to be loosely related to something you did when young, that it is therefore on a pedestal and anyone that disagrees is wrong.
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e21Mark
1,863 posts
43 months
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Blown2CV said: WhoseGeneration said: Blown2CV said: moped with silencing removed. Horrid wasp buzzing round your head noise. Silly little boys. I wholeheartedly agree but then think back some 48 years and that I was then that "silly little boy" on my home tuned BSA Bantam, just waiting to pass my test, to then get a big motorcycle to be able to "do the ton". All maturity brings is the appreciation that being "silly" is best practised alone. You, always a paragon of virtue on the roads I presume? No i would have just thought you were a silly little boy too had you deafened me with the buzz from whatever it was your were riding. To be honest I don't even know what a BSA Bantam sounds like, as you were probably my age now by the time I was born. Mopeds with loud exhausts emit an extremely horrid and intrusively pitched noise. Just because you used to do something when you were young doesn't make it right or acceptable, and the innocence of youth does not trump all wrongdoing. If you were a car thief back in the day would you still look back with misty eyes and chastise anyone who said car thieving was a bad thing, citing youthful innocence? You may well look back that half century to your younger days with rose tinted specs, but no, of course you wouldn't endeavour to justify everything you did, and neither would I. There are plenty of silly things that teenage boys do (you only have to look at the badly modified cars thread to see, and witness grown men chastising them in abundance), and so I stand by my comments entirely. No-one is exempt from criticism, including me and of course you. So I criticise you for being clearly of the opinion that just because it happens to be loosely related to something you did when young, that it is therefore on a pedestal and anyone that disagrees is wrong. 20 years ago most 16 year old boys used to lust after an Allspeed or Micron exhaust for the FS1E or AP50. I did it and am sure it pi55ed off other road users as I flew along at 34mph sounding like I was being chased my angry wasps with megaphones. At 16 I was more interested in going (or sounding) faster than not annoying other road users. I was a teenage knob.
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elvismiggell
926 posts
21 months
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For the record I've never been a fan of straight throughs, tin cans, noise enhancers or any of that. For me cars are about looks and performance. Noise just narks me off and always has.  Each to their own and all that, but I just can't understand why loud is better when it comes to vehicles. 
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droopsnoot
610 posts
112 months
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Liquid Knight said: Induction loops are basically metal detectors but as I suggested some bikes are either too small or the fairings can act as insulators. The easiest way to interfere with an induction loop is by generating one of your own. So revving the engine rotates the alternator/generator/magneto quicker as this current passes through the loom it creates an electromagnetic field that can be detected by the inductance loop. Provide you have an open circuit that rents the length of the frame (lights or brake lights) that electromagnetic field can polarise your frame (unless it's Aluminium) adding to the overall effect. Do the kids revving their mopeds at the lights know this, or are they just doing it because they don't realise how bad they sound?
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LotusOmega375D
2,188 posts
23 months
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It's amazing that moped manufacturers still get away with it. When you consider all those draconian noise-level requirements that car manufacturers have to comply with these days.
I guess we should think ourselves lucky that we don't live in a country that's over-run with mopeds like Italy or most Asian countries.
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GroundEffect
7,289 posts
26 months
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LotusOmega375D said: It's amazing that moped manufacturers still get away with it. When you consider all those draconian noise-level requirements that car manufacturers have to comply with these days.
I guess we should think ourselves lucky that we don't live in a country that's over-run with mopeds like Italy or most Asian countries. The loud ones are all modified by their owners to have an expansion pipe on them. That's what makes them so loud.
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masermartin
1,046 posts
47 months
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The knob who parked his Galaxy next to me on Tuesday at Toddington Northbound so close that I can't see how he could have possibly got out without hitting my car. When I got back he was just deciding it was too close, and I watched him get in and this time (whether or not he'd already done so) did hit my car with his rubbing strip. Because Ghiblis don't have rubbing strips and even if they did they wouldn't meet up with those on a Galaxy, it's left a nice obvious car park dent. When I challenged him about it "So what do we do about the dent you've left in my car?" (because once he'd reparked it he was going to just walk off) the attitude from him and his arrogant-as-f k teenage son or nephew or whatever just made my blood boil... "All I can see is your finger marks" - "Move side to side, you can see where it's deformed." "It's a tiny dent" - "but it's still a dent in my property that wasn't there before you parked next to me" "How do you know it was us?" - "Because I saw you do it." "Do you inspect your car when you get out every time then?" - "No, actually I inspect it every time I get back to it when I park in a carpark, plus it goes to a lot of events, so I wash it quite a lot." [Though at the moment it doesn't look like it, it is amazing what you learn about your car when you wash it.] "How can you prove it was us?" - .... I f kING CAN'T "PROVE IT" TO SOMEONE WHO WASN'T HERE, AND YOU DAMN WELL KNOW IT .... Now, if it had been a case of "Listen, mate, I'm sorry, I thought I could squeeze out but clearly I couldn't, here's £50, look up someone to do some PDR on it" I'd not have been foaming at the mouth. We'll see what they say when I get an opportunity to get some PDR person to look and quote. But it's just the carelessness, lack of respect, refusal to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, and the knowledge that at the end of the day, it can't be unequivocally proven who did it ... Nobody "does the right thing" any more, I'm beginning to feel like a fool for knocking on the door of a mate's neighbours house when I accidentally backed into one of their cars, doing a miniscule amount of damage, but I felt it was the "right thing to do". Is it just me?
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ikarl
972 posts
69 months
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masermartin said: The knob who parked his Galaxy next to me on Tuesday at Toddington Northbound so close that I can't see how he could have possibly got out without hitting my car. When I got back he was just deciding it was too close, and I watched him get in and this time (whether or not he'd already done so) did hit my car with his rubbing strip. Because Ghiblis don't have rubbing strips and even if they did they wouldn't meet up with those on a Galaxy, it's left a nice obvious car park dent. When I challenged him about it "So what do we do about the dent you've left in my car?" (because once he'd reparked it he was going to just walk off) the attitude from him and his arrogant-as-f k teenage son or nephew or whatever just made my blood boil... "All I can see is your finger marks" - "Move side to side, you can see where it's deformed." "It's a tiny dent" - "but it's still a dent in my property that wasn't there before you parked next to me" "How do you know it was us?" - "Because I saw you do it." "Do you inspect your car when you get out every time then?" - "No, actually I inspect it every time I get back to it when I park in a carpark, plus it goes to a lot of events, so I wash it quite a lot." [Though at the moment it doesn't look like it, it is amazing what you learn about your car when you wash it.] "How can you prove it was us?" - .... I f kING CAN'T "PROVE IT" TO SOMEONE WHO WASN'T HERE, AND YOU DAMN WELL KNOW IT .... Now, if it had been a case of "Listen, mate, I'm sorry, I thought I could squeeze out but clearly I couldn't, here's £50, look up someone to do some PDR on it" I'd not have been foaming at the mouth. We'll see what they say when I get an opportunity to get some PDR person to look and quote. But it's just the carelessness, lack of respect, refusal to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, and the knowledge that at the end of the day, it can't be unequivocally proven who did it ... Nobody "does the right thing" any more, I'm beginning to feel like a fool for knocking on the door of a mate's neighbours house when I accidentally backed into one of their cars, doing a miniscule amount of damage, but I felt it was the "right thing to do". Is it just me? I don't condone it at all, but if it had been me, when he returned to his car he may have found a smallish dent on his!!
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