noisy motor bikes

Relyat wrote on Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:41pm:

Noise gives the illusion of speed.

There is also the argument from certain sectors of the biking community that "Loud pipes save lives". Also don't forget that, being a Hardly Able Son, there is a badass reputation to maintain - notice that you never see any of them smiling when riding!!

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I do ride a bike and have done for years.

Rodders766 wrote on Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:41pm:

No not you villas I'vehad normally Saturdays  four lads on what I call Moto cross bikes for the last four weekends no this weekend tearing up and down Salinas to salt lakes but generally all it does get my German shepherd barking for a while but there again there is someone I assume works la...

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...te at night and normally goes past about 11at night on Saturday or Sunday  but all I do is turn the Tele up or if in garden have my music going 

Villas wrote on Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:18pm:

Is it just me, or perhaps the Victor Meldrew setting in!

There seems to be many balding types, again Victor comes to mind, with loud motor bikes.

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 I am not, by any means, a biker. I once had a Honda 70 if I recall… But it never stalled and I never found the need to rev it, when coming to a stand/still or parking up outside a bar for instance.

I asked a chap the other day, after noticing his Harley Davdison sounded considerably more quiet and sweet than usual, if he’d had his exhaust fixed.

 He informed me that he’d put the original back on, in order to get through the Spanish MOT i.e. ITV… and then replaced it with the noisy one.

As we spoke, a Harley Davidson rode past, burbling sweetly. Heads turned in admiration.

My companion donned his crash helmet, started his machine and after revving it for three or four minutes rode off to annoy some others.

Is it just me­?

Villas.

Villas wrote on Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:18pm:

Is it just me, or perhaps the Victor Meldrew setting in!

There seems to be many balding types, again Victor comes to mind, with loud motor bikes.

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 I am not, by any means, a biker. I once had a Honda 70 if I recall… But it never stalled and I never found the need to rev it, when coming to a stand/still or parking up outside a bar for instance.

I asked a chap the other day, after noticing his Harley Davdison sounded considerably more quiet and sweet than usual, if he’d had his exhaust fixed.

 He informed me that he’d put the original back on, in order to get through the Spanish MOT i.e. ITV… and then replaced it with the noisy one.

As we spoke, a Harley Davidson rode past, burbling sweetly. Heads turned in admiration.

My companion donned his crash helmet, started his machine and after revving it for three or four minutes rode off to annoy some others.

Is it just me­?

Villas.

Relyat wrote on Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:41pm:

Noise gives the illusion of speed.

There is also the argument from certain sectors of the biking community that "Loud pipes save lives". Also don't forget that, being a Hardly Able Son, there is a badass reputation to maintain - notice that you never see any of them smiling when riding!!

Read more...

I do ride a bike and have done for years.