Big fat hogs with belching pipes

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Big fat hogs with belching pipes

#1 Unread post by ceemes »

Let's face it, as riders we all share a common gripe and that is inattentive cagers who seem to be out to kill us off in job lots. We all have complained and b itched about idiots driving while talking or texting on their mobiles, or sucking back from a big travel mug of coffee, or attempting to put on lipstick or shave. And to be perfectly honest, our complaints are legitimate, valid and with merit.

But have we ever considered about the other shoe on the other foot? The gripes and complaints cagers have about a couple types of riders? You know the ones, the squids tearing hell bent for leather down the highway on one wheel or my personal favorite dis-favorite, the cruiser poser who pulls the baffles out of his pipes and rips down the road farting and thundering like a constipated pig with a terminal case of flatulence.

Here is an Op-ed piece from the Vancouver Province that we all should read and consider carefully. As riders we have a special freedom but that freedom does come with some measure of responsibility and concern about our fellow road users, the cages.
Column: Big fat hogs with belching pipes make me reconsider my stance against Tasers
By Wayne Moriarty, The ProvinceAugust 27, 2009
The noise police in Grandby Quebec have outlawed chainsaws on Sunday. In a related story, Leatherface doesn't plan on moving there anytime soon.

(Insert rimshot here.) The good people of Grandby aren't too happy with this new law. Apparently six days a week of felling trees and making firewood isn't enough.

Me? Well, I'm on the side of the legislators.

Clearly, if chainsaws are a problem in your community, then one day of peace from the noise hardly seems too much to ask.

I would like one day's peace from those damn motorcycles that scream up and down my street.

I'm not talking the sweet roar of a BMW K 1300. I'm talking a big fat hog with an exhaust system that has been retrofitted to make certain it can be heard from space.

The people who ride these bikes are pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. And that includes all members of the Bloc Quebecois and the entire cast to next season's Celebrity Apprentice.

As editor-in-chief of this august publication, I have fought strongly against the use of Tasers. However, where the riders of these bikes are concerned, I am willing to make some exceptions.

The people who own these bikes will argue that the really loud pipes are a safety precaution against careless drivers.

Problem is, most of the riders who have these pipes wear little more than soupcans on their heads for protection.

Ipso facto, safety doesn't seem to be all that high a priority.

John Fuller is an immensely talented news editor here at The Province. He lives in Vancouver's Kits. Not long ago one of these motorcycles roared up his street and sonically set off a car alarm.

This also happens every year at the Abbotsford Air Show when a CF-18 flies too close to the parking lot.

That's right, having one of these motorcycles ride down your street is akin to having a CF-18 in the neighbourhood.

Recently, I contacted Michael Wang, channel manager of Blackbox Phitek Systems Limited. Phitek makes these amazing headphones that all but eliminate surrounding sound.

I wrote him to ask how the headphones would hold up against 120 decibels of screaming motorcycle.

"So, 120 decibels of rumbling sound, or jet plane sound, will get reduced," he wrote.

Reduced. Not eliminated.

It seems then that only the deaf have absolute peace from these people.

Vancouver isn't alone with this problem. A quick Google search reveals numerous communities menaced by these machines.

Well, I am happy to report that I have the solution. Make them illegal. Make messing with your exhaust as illegal as messing with your odometer.

And if anyone complains about safety, tell them to buy a Volvo.
Always ask why.

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#2 Unread post by Gummiente »

I've been saying it for years - "loud pipes ruin rights." But there's a lot of riders out there (and a side note to the editor of that article, they're not all on Harleys) who just don't get it.

Remember when you used to be able to smoke at your desk while working? Had somebody told me 20yrs ago that some day smoking would be all but illegal I would have laughed and blown smoke in their face (I quit smoking 13 years ago). Look where we are today with that issue.

The point is, when enough people get pissed off enough, they will enact a change in legislation and it WILL spread countrywide. Mark my words, loud pipes are on the short list for the next change.
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#3 Unread post by jstark47 »

Noisiest bike I ever heard was at a "Kruise Night" in Freehold, NJ in 2005. At that time Freehold had these events monthly. Residents didn't care for it, but downtown merchants raked in cash. There were plenty of Harleys and big twin customs making lots of noise. But the absolute noisiest........ a customized Goldwing with straight pipes :shock:

That thing was frikkin' LOUD
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#4 Unread post by blues2cruise »

Gummiente wrote:I've been saying it for years - "loud pipes ruin rights." But there's a lot of riders out there (and a side note to the editor of that article, they're not all on Harleys) who just don't get it.
Amen to that. A woman in the local riding group has an 1100cc V-Star with loud pipes. So loud that she and her hubby have to ride at the back of the group because nobody wants to ride near her.

I'll keep my stock pipes. :)
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Glad I don't live in canada.

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#6 Unread post by Gummiente »

Superfly3176 wrote:Glad I don't live in canada.
Yeah, because it's only up here in the Great White North that people are mad about noise. There's no place anywhere in the entire USA where people are complaining about loud pipes, no, not down there.

Don't forget to use your mirrors and shoulder checks while riding, those blinders you're wearing are obstructing your vision.
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Gummiente wrote:
Superfly3176 wrote:Glad I don't live in canada.
Yeah, because it's only up here in the Great White North that people are mad about noise. There's no place anywhere in the entire USA where people are complaining about loud pipes, no, not down there.

Don't forget to use your mirrors and shoulder checks while riding, those blinders you're wearing are obstructing your vision.
BWAHAHAAHAHAHA

People caring about noise is everywhere.

I am still glad I dont live in Canada :USA: :twisted:
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Wish away, it's only a matter of time before we annex Indiana, so enjoy it while you can... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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dr_bar wrote:Wish away, it's only a matter of time before we annex Indiana, so enjoy it while you can... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Lookit, you know the rules...... want Indiana? Gotta accept Detroit first! :twisted: (....and you get extra points if you take Camden, NJ, too)
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jstark47 wrote:
dr_bar wrote:Wish away, it's only a matter of time before we annex Indiana, so enjoy it while you can... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Lookit, you know the rules...... want Indiana? Gotta accept Detroit first! :twisted: (....and you get extra points if you take Camden, NJ, too)
HA.......

We're giving NJ to Quebec.... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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