Annoying bloody scooter/moped things
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How come car drivers get pulled if they have loud sports exhausts, yet the kids on those horrible moped things with L plates can get away with making an insane racket.
I don't mind loud exhausts and live on a main road/ police & ambulance route, that doesn't bother me either. But these things are way louder! How can something so small and slow make so much noise? and how come they are legally sold this way?
I don't mind loud exhausts and live on a main road/ police & ambulance route, that doesn't bother me either. But these things are way louder! How can something so small and slow make so much noise? and how come they are legally sold this way?
Leave them alone!
think of it this way
its giving them experience on the road for when they pass their driving test and dont know how to use the road properly, exept they do because they have owned a scooter
so they dont crash into you or I.
think of it this way
its giving them experience on the road for when they pass their driving test and dont know how to use the road properly, exept they do because they have owned a scooter
so they dont crash into you or I.
Edited by Rochellc01 on Thursday 24th January 16:15
Loud scooters are annoying. The noisethey make is not very pleasant, and 'cos they're so slow, they take ages to get out of ear shot. However, I've never known the police to pull anyone for a loud exhaust, and tbh, 16 year olds are going to find one way or another to be noisy.
Leave 'em to it as long as they're not doing anything dangerous imo.
Leave 'em to it as long as they're not doing anything dangerous imo.
stargazer30 said:
How can something so small and slow make so much noise?
Have you never been near a baby? At 50cc, or a large double in the pub, it's going to make some noise to make it move, it's screaming it's nuts off.stargazer30 said:
and how come they are legally sold this way?
Because in general, the exhausts are 'E' stamped, so they comply with regulations.we were all 16 once, some of us had scooters with suitably modified exhausts and some of us didnt, its been happening since 1921 when George Thrubblethwaite took to the streets on his Loxley Humblebucker without the silencers and Mrs Miggins said you could hear the noise all the way to Upper Chopsworthy.... and so it goes on....
pablo said:
we were all 16 once, some of us had scooters with suitably modified exhausts and some of us didnt, its been happening since 1921 when George Thrubblethwaite took to the streets on his Loxley Humblebucker without the silencers and Mrs Miggins said you could hear the noise all the way to Upper Chopsworthy.... and so it goes on....
Bloody pain it is too. Trying to restore a 1922 Loxley Humblebucker but it's a nightmare finding a silencer, because all the kids binned them. Even the rumours of there being a crate of them buried near the old factory in Lower Chopsworthy came to nought.Rochellc01 said:
Leave them alone!
think of it this way
its giving them experience on the road for when they pass their driving test and dont know how to use the road properly, exept they do because they have owned a scooter
so they dont crash into you or I.
I'm not sure swerving all over the road, racing each other 2 per lane, driving up curbs etc are really "skills" that you want a young car driver to have.think of it this way
its giving them experience on the road for when they pass their driving test and dont know how to use the road properly, exept they do because they have owned a scooter
so they dont crash into you or I.
Edited by Rochellc01 on Thursday 24th January 16:15
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