Motorcycle exhaust noise levels
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Don’t blame funds, if it’s such a problem for you as you seem to indicate, perhaps it’s not a priority because very few whine about it enough to warrant some kind of action.
I expect that the EPA will eventually start doing their job and regulating the noise pollution coming from motorcycles.
Then the whining will come from the people who ride them as they moan about how this is a free country and they should be allowed to do whatever they want.
This is what happened when North Carolina banned squatted trucks, based on the comments I saw on the news articles about it.
*Comes up to a stoplight*
Gotta make sure the bike is on!
*REVS ENGINE TO THE MOON*
I have a friend with a window shaker exhaust on his HD but luckily he understands my cul-de-sac echos so he starts his up and immediately leaves. I can hear him at the light a mile away though.
drove schoolies for 10 years ......... 186,000 miles per second
I'm sending that to my friend right now LMAO.
The Squat™ is alive and well
Forgot motorcycles, the problem around here is junk infinities and other POS cars with the worst loud exhausts you've ever heard. Cue revving them at 2am just to be an a-hole
Thank you for clarification. Could have been urban legend or my source of that was wrong. In real life, there is no evidence to suggest LEO's are citing motorcycle riders for noise violations, so I had no reason to doubt the rumor. If they can pull you over for a loud stereo, they should do the same for bikes. Just sayin'
How can I get these cops into my city? People need to shut the heck up!
why? According to your earlier post, funding depletion has prevented that. Why would it change since it’s obvious that it’s not that big a deal to most Americans.
as for the trucks, when you can’t see over your dash because of the squat, it’s a safety issue. As for me, I have no problems seeing or hearing over my epa approved pipes.
Why did the EPA finally start cracking down on diesel tuners? Would it be because too many people were "rolling coal" and others complained about it to their elected officials? Could something similar happen with loud exhausts? I think so.
Good for you. There's lots of pipes out there, which nobody can hear over. Is that a safety issue? It could be.
You noticed the rider and didn't inadvertently run him down because you didn't know he was there.
That's why.
There we go again, diverting from exhaust to tuners…. Fuel vs decibel levels.
or, could save a life, like it did mine.
Having my wife follow me, and me follow my wife in a car and the other way around, and having ridden a Zero EV bike, I can tell you the sound has nothing to do with it
You can't even hear a bike come up on you most of the time in modern cars
The rider was on a death wish darting between vehicles including 18 wheelers in right spaces across 4 lanes of highway.
I don’t think he cared much for his life or anyone else.
I have had to drive by two different motorcyclists who died on scene or shortly thereafter this year due to my 11 year old not needed to see a bloody mess in road.
Did car drivers underestimate your speed or distance aswell? Yours being a schoolbus would warrant some more caution by drivers
Same agency is charged with enforcing both. My point is that even though they don't enforce it today is no guarantee that that they won't in the future.
I think the life saving value of loud pipes is overrated. My experience has been that "loud pipes" are a lot more noticeable in one's house, where it disturbs one's peaceful quiet enjoyment of their property, than they are in a vehicle. Ambient noise levels in a house are much lower than in a vehicle.
Why not just install a loud horn?
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