Cu*ts on extremely loud bikes at night in urban areas
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Can someone explain to me the appeal of riding a bike that is one of those "loud pipes saves lives" affairs at night in a way resembling racing on a f
king circuit (blipping throttle while downshifting before lights etc). I can't comprehend this, what sort of a mentally challenged would consider doing something like this socially acceptable. Answers below please.
king circuit (blipping throttle while downshifting before lights etc). I can't comprehend this, what sort of a mentally challenged would consider doing something like this socially acceptable. Answers below please.
The police can't chase you if you're not wearing a helmet on a bike. So you can do pretty much what you want but because of human rights plod can't follow you if you've wheelied down a pavement outside a school, mugged someone, thrown acid at someone, or robbed a jewellers.
For full legal protection just wear a balaclava and remove the numberplate off your stolen scooter and nobody will touch you.
For full legal protection just wear a balaclava and remove the numberplate off your stolen scooter and nobody will touch you.
Sam993 said:
Can someone explain to me the appeal of riding a bike that is one of those "loud pipes saves lives" affairs at night in a way resembling racing on a fking circuit (blipping throttle while downshifting before lights etc). I can't comprehend this, what sort of a mentally challenged would consider doing something like this socially acceptable. Answers below please.
Probably not, but why is that an issue for you OP? Or do you live next to a f*cking circuit? In which case why don't you live somewhere else?king circuit (blipping throttle while downshifting before lights etc). I can't comprehend this, what sort of a mentally challenged would consider doing something like this socially acceptable. Answers below please.Mr Tidy said:
Probably not, but why is that an issue for you OP? Or do you live next to a f*cking circuit? In which case why don't you live somewhere else?
It's probably an issue because he can't comprehend why an individual feels that it's ok to disrupt the peace and quiet of 100's of others, especially at night when it's the quiet part of the day. Motorcyclists with loud exhausts are the most anti-social set of bds on the roads today.Being an ex-owner of a bike with a slip-on, They really are useful / improve the sound + performance. However there is a time and a place.
The ones that annoy me recently are the 125/mopeds with straight pipes, or there's some tt with a straight pipe on their car that enjoys making it backfire at 10/11pm. A. its a stty 4 pot so does'nt sound good anyway, and b, its not a pop pop burble pop, its just a rev cut and gunshot like bang.
Wouldn't surprise me if they were on here, and I don't mind during the day if that's your thing, but when I've just gotten an teething baby to sleep finally, its really not appreciated.
The ones that annoy me recently are the 125/mopeds with straight pipes, or there's some t
t with a straight pipe on their car that enjoys making it backfire at 10/11pm. A. its a stty 4 pot so does'nt sound good anyway, and b, its not a pop pop burble pop, its just a rev cut and gunshot like bang. Wouldn't surprise me if they were on here, and I don't mind during the day if that's your thing, but when I've just gotten an teething baby to sleep finally, its really not appreciated.
Guy on a supermoto style bike which must be straight piped as it can be heard for a few miles on a night drives past my house every night at 11PM and again at 6AM, must be doing nights somewhere but wow, it's truly horrific, I literally have to base what time I want to go to sleep around him 
Lazadude said:
Being an ex-owner of a bike with a slip-on, They really are useful / improve the sound + performance. However there is a time and a place.
If they make the exhaust louder than the legal limit it's not an improvement. It's a selfish indulgence and annoyance to the majority. I accept and agree that exhausts can sound 'better' or mechanically more 'interesting' but that doesn't have to mean louder. Because usually these sport cans are fking loud and the owners know that they are annoying other people but the selfish bds don't care. Which is why there is such a general anti-bike sentiment.S9JTO said:
Guy on a supermoto style bike which must be straight piped as it can be heard for a few miles on a night drives past my house every night at 11PM and again at 6AM, must be doing nights somewhere but wow, it's truly horrific, I literally have to base what time I want to go to sleep around him
You must live near me. Bloke on a scooter with no exhaust comes past my house just after 5am every morning. You can hear the build up from about an mile away as he crawls past at 20mph. We get the same with kids in st cars making a nuisance of themselves. But it was ever thus - I did the same myself with Lloyd Cole or Level 42 blasting out of my Alpine stereo at all hours of the day or night. OP. You’ve just got old. Suck it up.
Lazadude said:
Being an ex-owner of a bike with a slip-on, They really are useful / improve the sound.....
Yeah, I'm afraid they most certainly do not!There seems to be at least one who passes through the area I live in a couple of times a week, always at night. A couple of weeks ago he appeared to have some of his mates with him, as the noise of what I suspect was three or four bikes with silly exhausts sounded like the Trumpets of Jericho had begun resounding from the heavens. The noise bouncing off the surrounding houses was horrendous.
Mr Tidy said:
Sam993 said:
Can someone explain to me the appeal of riding a bike that is one of those "loud pipes saves lives" affairs at night in a way resembling racing on a fking circuit (blipping throttle while downshifting before lights etc). I can't comprehend this, what sort of a mentally challenged would consider doing something like this socially acceptable. Answers below please.
Probably not, but why is that an issue for you OP? Or do you live next to a f*cking circuit? In which case why don't you live somewhere else?king circuit (blipping throttle while downshifting before lights etc). I can't comprehend this, what sort of a mentally challenged would consider doing something like this socially acceptable. Answers below please.
Some of us have to live in locations near a main road because, oddly enough, they meet our overall requirements for location, property size/quality and budget. I couldn't have afforded my place if it wasn't directly above a main road.
OP - I'm with you on this one, the traffic outside mine is an almost relentless background white noise with the windows shut (so not really a problem), quite loud with them open (sometimes an issue but I have an element of control there), and sometimes absolutely deafening when you get a
like this riding past, windows closed or not.Get them round here during the summer, live near a main road, and all that road being a thirty limit does is make them take longer to go past.
They're just beings, not sure there's a great deal you can do about it. At least UK bikers don't squawk the "loud pipes save lives!" bks in response that their American brethren are such fans of.
They're just being
s, not sure there's a great deal you can do about it. At least UK bikers don't squawk the "loud pipes save lives!" bks in response that their American brethren are such fans of.The problem is huge on the road going past my house - bikes and cars.
However the number of obnoxiously loud cars is many, many multiples more than the bikes, it's horrendous. Not that it doesn't make it obnoxious, but at least the bikes have performance to go with the noise, but most of the cars are just utter stboxes fitted with what my Dutch friends call "fist fker exhausts".
However the number of obnoxiously loud cars is many, many multiples more than the bikes, it's horrendous. Not that it doesn't make it obnoxious, but at least the bikes have performance to go with the noise, but most of the cars are just utter s
tboxes fitted with what my Dutch friends call "fist fker exhausts".Brigand said:
Yeah, I'm afraid they most certainly do not!
There seems to be at least one who passes through the area I live in a couple of times a week, always at night..
Probably worth adding, mine wasn't stupid loud (it passed track day limits) and it most certainly did improve the performance (measurable increase in power) and something as opinionated as sound - it did in my book. There seems to be at least one who passes through the area I live in a couple of times a week, always at night..
But I also said, there's a time and a place as you don't need to be in the upper rev range / heavy accel / reving in the small hours in a town. Part of the problem is that its generally the cheap stuff that is louder/less refined and what you buy when you're a teen.
langtounlad said:
If they make the exhaust louder than the legal limit it's not an improvement. It's a selfish indulgence and annoyance to the majority. I accept and agree that exhausts can sound 'better' or mechanically more 'interesting' but that doesn't have to mean louder. Because usually these sport cans are fking loud and the owners know that they are annoying other people but the selfish bds don't care. Which is why there is such a general anti-bike sentiment.
There’s two Subaru Imprezas with stupidly loud exhausts that drive round the town I live in and up and down our road almost constantly. They go very quickly too (estimate would be 60mph in the 30 area I live in). king loud and the owners know that they are annoying other people but the selfish bds don't care. Which is why there is such a general anti-bike sentiment.Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to be car sections to post on every single board about how all car drivers are “c*nts”.
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