Put a few hundred thousand miles on a motorcycle and you might change
your mind.
you notice people driving with windows up, in a daze and weaving ,
suddenly snapping to as you approach. I had the things put on after
having to take the ditch a few times due to someone not paying attention
( and a full dressed Guzzi ( note, this is not a chopper, this is a Moto
Guzzi, i.e. safest motorcycle in the world at the time ) is NOT
something that you want to be taking a ditch on, getting airborne on
one of those things is seriously NOT fun ).
At idle and low speed riding in a civilized manner, not much diference
in sound, at highwy speed or if you crack the throttle is where they get
loud.
Yes, there are some idiots who have to make the things bark at every
light, but I'm sure that's the least of their problems.
And at the time, I asked my neighbors if it had bothered them because I
was leaving for work at 4am, not a one had heard the thing.
---------Robert
Curt Raymond wrote:
Ahh the old "Loud pipes save lives" argument. I've read some interesting
studies that indicate this to be at best misleading and at worst absolute hogwash.
The basic gist as I understand it is that because the sound is
non-directional and because cars are so well sound-proofed that the loudness
sort of blends in with everyday noises and doesn't help.
Worse yet people can be distracted from putting on their makeup or their
cellphone conversation and actually crash INTO bikes as they look around for
where the sound is coming from. Plus some people will get angered by the noise
and their already shoddy driving skills will get even worse possibly causing
accidents around the motorcycle that might not actually include the motorcycle
itself.
Then add that the typical loud bike is a Harley and not as manuverable as a "real" (notice the quotes, I'm
not looking for flames on that one) sport bike, and many Harley riders are not "serious" (those quotes again,
on this one I mean the doctors, lawyers and other "prestige Harley riders") riders and as such will have an
ego that doesn't keep them in a safe defensive driving posture thereby raising the danger statistic for
"loud" bikes.
I find 'em annoying and rude, esp at 6am when somebody cranks one up and I'm trying to sleep. Probably its not as much the bike's fault as the hillscroggin mouth breather that only thinks about how cool he thinks he is...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:23:38 -0800
From: "Tim C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Bike rider, loud pipes
To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Actually, loud pipes let cars (mostly driven by blithering idiots who
fail
to see anything smaller than a Suburban) know you're there. A friend
had an
obnoxiously loud bike (he bought it that way, wasn't trying to say
"look at
me") could hear him for about 3/4 of a mile away - he stated that cars
stayed away from him, even moving to the other side of their lane as he
passed. I know if I rode a bike, I'd want that kind of situation - not
being seen usually has disastrous results when you don't have a frame
around
you.
T
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