Rev bomb

[bongtom]

I was on a ride-out with a mate years back, him on his new S1000R me on my old 'blade. We was coming to a roundabout and a car suddenly changed direction. I just went round him but my mate "rev bombed" him.
I asked him later wtf he was doing and he said "He just pulled out, I nearly crashed". SRSLY!?

He was anew rider, maybe two years, so is that a thing now?

I told him not to do it again.

[Pebbles167]

It's a thing, although I've not heard it given a name. Just watch any biker dashcam video and listen out (or don't)

Arguably more common now, but I've heard bikers doing it since at least 2012 when I started riding.

It's usually more obnoxious than whatever move the car driver just pulled if you ask me.

[MrGman]

Pebbles167 said:

It's usually more obnoxious than whatever move the car driver just pulled if you ask me.

Totally agree, definitely only done by a certain type of rider too!

[Zarco]

MrGman said:

Pebbles167 said:

It's usually more obnoxious than whatever move the car driver just pulled if you ask me.

Totally agree, definitely only done by a certain type of rider too!

It's the same ones that ride with full beam on all the time.

[black-k1]

I do find a rev bomb useful for the pedestrians who walk between the stationary traffic, ear buds in, looking at their phone or in the other direction, and not thinking about bikes filtering.

[trickywoo]

Used appropriately in place of the horn it’s fine. Quicker and louder than your typical bike horn.

I’d be interested to know if the anti rev bombers are also anti horn.

[the cueball]

I’ve found there is a new breed of rider that bounces their bike off the limiter rather than what I would class as a quick ‘rev bomb’ - a short, sharp rev.

Usually found on a 125 and on ewwww toob, speeding up to the scene of a poor car drivers misdemeanour for clicks n likes.

But I have noticed it on the rise near me too…

[MrGman]

trickywoo said:

Used appropriately in place of the horn it’s fine. Quicker and louder than your typical bike horn.

I’d be interested to know if the anti rev bombers are also anti horn.

I think the ‘rev bomb’ is much more aggressive than a quick beep of the horn.

[black-k1]

MrGman said:

trickywoo said:

Used appropriately in place of the horn it’s fine. Quicker and louder than your typical bike horn.

I’d be interested to know if the anti rev bombers are also anti horn.

I think the ‘rev bomb’ is much more aggressive than a quick beep of the horn.

Hmmm ... Is that because it can be heard, unlike most motorcycle horns?

The hron is used to state "I am here". That's what a quick rev bomb does and is quicker, easier and safer to do than finding the horn button. (I am referring to a quick throttle blip, not a bounce it off the limiter for a couple of seconds.)

[Zarco]

I wouldn't call a quick blip a rev bomb either.

[P675]

On my Tuono doing that was louder than the horn and I've got better muscle memory to do that than find the horn in a panic. When I see people on the helmetcam vids revving their 125 at people on a dual carriageway, they're never going to hear that.

Slightly related, neighbour over the road every week or so brings out his Triumph Sprint or Kawa ZZR, starts it up, revs it a lot for a minute, then turns it off and puts it back in the shed, rides them once a year maybe.

[jjones]

black-k1 said:

Hmmm ... Is that because it can be heard, unlike most motorcycle horns?

The hron is used to state "I am here". That's what a quick rev bomb does and is quicker, easier and safer to do than finding the horn button. (I am referring to a quick throttle blip, not a bounce it off the limiter for a couple of seconds.)

agreed

[MrGman]

trickywoo said:

Used appropriately in place of the horn it’s fine. Quicker and louder than your typical bike horn.

I’d be interested to know if the anti rev bombers are also anti horn.

I think the ‘rev bomb’ is much more aggressive than a quick beep of the horn.

[Weso]

I have been known to pull the clutch and give a little blip to make zombiefied morons aware that I am there, but bouncing it off the limiter is a dick move.
Oh and I always seem to miss the horn and cancel the indicator that isn't on on the rare occasion I try to use the horn.

[TheInternet]

My observations in London have generally shown:

- Rev bomb is to let everyone know you're a dick
- Horn is to let everyone know you failed to anticipate something fairly obvious

Of course neighther are options on my high horse.

[Pebbles167]

To be clear, when I stated that revving is obnoxious, I very much meant the bouncing it off the limiter for 10 seconds, in most cases followed by the biker riding forward, facing rearwards, throwing obscene hand gestures at the offending vehicle.

[Krikkit]

I don't understand the rev bomb at all - use the horn.

Revving doesn't mean much to the uninitiated - to most people bikes are all really noisy, revvy things. You're just blending in.

[spoodler]

When I was in a Sportster group, they referred to it as "throttle wking"... seems an appropriate term to me.

[NITO]

TheInternet said:

My observations in London have generally shown:

- Rev bomb is to let everyone know you're a dick
- Horn is to let everyone know you failed to anticipate something fairly obvious

Of course neighther are options on my high horse.

Class

[Jazoli]

Rev bombers are annoying but not as annoying as 'blippers' sad fks they are, sat at the light going brap brap brap, yes it's a bike, yes we can see you, yes you are a tt.