Starting to Limit the Rumble & Roar-5/30 Meeting

[Vision 2025]

quote:Originally posted by jdb

"Trains blasting their horns is mainly to alert people that they're coming..." - rwarn

Motorbikes are "blasting" pipes for much the same reason: allbeit a selfish pursuit of staying alive.

Comfort is for sissies!

Funny how things come around and around, except that I imagine some may be getting busted again on "the ribbon" when once (at least in my youth) it was for "glass packs" or having "the dumps" open for the next "run", now it is simply to boost the look-at-me factor.

So to promote safety; I propose that the next episode of American Chopper feature a new forward facing exhaust so as to better alert those ahead of the rider (if noise is such a good defense hey why not make the best of it), or better yet one pipe aimed each way just to be extra safe...

Several years back my (now former) neighbors Harley (and I grew up riding, so I like bikes and had one at the time) was so loud it would drown out a train at a rumble fest (his words not mine)... funny thing is that under his rag, he wore ear plugs when he rode!  We had a great  friendship only challenged by his rumbling departures and arrivals so we had a deal the later he came roaring in, the longer I warmed up my diesel pick-up in the mornings,  he was a bit of a slow learner but about half way through a cold duck season his rumbling arrivals ceased.


KC - just my opinion

Ps. and if your $20+grand (and way-way up) toy won't idle without your having to always roll the throttle at intersections or when pulling out while the band is playing outside...TAKE IT BACK and GET IT FIXED!

Funny, how they just seem to idle better with quiet exhaust.

[Breadburner]

I love watching those numptys gettin tickets.......

[Sangria]

Well, I ride a cruiser - not a Harley and I don't have straight pipes or a loud exhaust. But I am a biker.

I will be honest - I find them incredibly annoying. I refuse to ride with them anywhere. Who wants to listen to those pipes all day?

Loud Pipes Save Lives is their slogun. Obviously, no one that believes this has ever opened a science book and studied the rules of sound travel.

Science aside, cars are made to shut out sound now days - they don't hear emergency vehicles they are certainly not going to hear a motorcycle.

Nope, they are loud to piss people off and it's working. I hope they get tickets every time they go anywhere in Tulsa.

I don't want bikes gone - I want them to be quiet.[]

[Conan71]

There are tools in every crowd.  If riders would self-police they won't need the city to police them.  I'm on a big biker email list for Tulsa.  There's been some emails going around talking about peer pressure on the knot-heads being the best enforcement amongst bikers.

I'm guilty of obnoxious noise habits in the past, but the older I get, the more I realize how much loud mufflers and stereos really are annoying.  I guess that's old fartism setting in.

Personally, there is nothing funnier than seeing a new credit card biker cob his throttle leaving Crow Creek, then listening to him float a valve when he misses his shift to 2nd gear.

[Sangria]

I like to sit across from Crow creek and watch the drunk riders tip over trying to leave. that should be an olympic sport.[]

People need to understand that we are not talking about problem kids... we are talking about people who are old enough to know better. But, for some reason their folks forgot to teach them to respect other people.

On the other hand, what goes around comes around. Someday it will be those guys wanting peace and quiet and it will be someone else making them miserable and telling them to get over it.