Loud pipes save lives !

[properperson]

 

Or not, apparently !

 

Loud pipes get you knicked by the rozzers:

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2020/01/19/chonburi-police-renew-crackdown-on-groups-of-motorbike-racers-in-pattaya-area-catch-one-racer-with-crystal-methamphetamine/?fbclid=IwAR1MXgCYJ5kk0Z2pnFjDFNAqbjgRh8LFIf0ujMmJiJ7WtgPMz1odyXzBwY0

[canopus1969]

Good news   ????

[OneMoreFarang]

 

[alacrity]

You never hear the round that slots you. Situational awareness is key.

The premise that someone should have heard you coming is a nonsense. Groan, groan.

[johng]

Loud pipes  pee off the neighbours and give everyone a headache...simply look at me look at me attention seekers ????

[richard_smith237]

16 minutes ago, alacrity said:

You never hear the round that slots you. Situational awareness is key.

The premise that someone should have heard you coming is a nonsense. Groan, groan.

Are you really entering the debate & leading with a ‘sniper comparison’ ??? 
 

 

Sat in my car, yapping away with my Wife, son on the back seat asking for his iPad, along with a multitude of other potential distractions I’m alerted to a nearby bike because I can hear it.... Everyone else around can hear it before I see it - that makes it safer for the rider. 
 

That people should be aware of those around them doesn’t mean they. Even the best of us make mistakes, even the most greatest-legends-of-bull<deleted>tery amongst us can’t be alert to everything around them 100% of the time, every time. 
 

Being herd defiantly makes it safer for the rider.
 

There’s no need for loud pipes & riding around like a goon, but something loud enough it be heard will always be safer.  
 

Of course, always expect the unexpected from other road users & if they hear you they are less likely to do the unexpected when near you.
 

 

[richard_smith237]

5 minutes ago, johng said:

Loud pipes  pee off the neighbours and give everyone a headache...simply look at me look at me attention seekers ????

Only the hoons - there is a happy medium which can be achieved. 

[Damrongsak]

Hoons and tunes ...

[Metropolitian]

7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

Wait me get sticks and a bag of fluff

[mike787]

Louder the better....they should do a study and see.

[alx123]

I have permanent tinnitus  now due to years of using loud exhaust on my previous bikes. Never again, especially on a single cylinder. 

 

I even use ear plugs now to reduce noise (wind and engine) when riding; it helps me focus better when riding, plus I'm less tired afterwards. 

 

 

[canuckamuck]

I could never understand why someone who enjoys riding, also enjoys extra loud engine noise to go with it? A nice quiet bike is a pleasure.  Teenagers OK, I get that, but not adults.

[VocalNeal]

When I had a loud pipe on my Cagiva I did ride a bit slower in town so maybe they are safer...????

[CGW]

Small single cylinder engines were built to get from A to B quietly and efficiently!

They were never intended to sound nice or be "racing" machines!

They tend to sound like cement mixers on steroids!

[rvaviator]

37 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

I could never understand why someone who enjoys riding, also enjoys extra loud engine noise to go with it? A nice quiet bike is a pleasure.  Teenagers OK, I get that, but not adults.

In some aspects of life growing up is highly overrated ... ????

[VocalNeal]

Spirited on overun is good. Sounding like a tractor not so....

[Nigel Garvie]

I read this thread, fired up with indignation, that someone was complaining about our magnificent Highland Bagpipes (Commonly referred to just as the pipes). Turned out the subject was just manopausal posers on big scooters. Sorry my mistake!

[VocalNeal]

30 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:

magnificent Highland Bagpipes

????

 

Wish to emulate?

Put a cat under your arm and bite it's tail.????

[Kwasaki]

22 hours ago, properperson said:

Loud pipes get you Kicked by the rozzers:

No way it is what it is' Harleys are loud many new type bikes are loud.

For me being a biker it's how it sounds.

e.g. Waves going nowhere fast with nasty sounding loud pipes which you can hear and seems to go on forever annoy me.

[Metropolitian]

My 2T sounds like a tugboat.

 

Being close to my Click and his pierced exhaust.

Which however does sound as a diesel woodsaw, once the throttle is thrown full and quickly released everyone knows I am there.

 

Time to replace/fix.

[VocalNeal]

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

For me being a biker it's how it sounds.

The Italians seem to have it sorted in anything they make. Doesn't have to be loud. 

[Metropolitian]

2 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

The Italians seem to have it sorted in anything they make. Doesn't have to be loud. 

 

Then it has pedals.

 

 

[Kwasaki]

2 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

The Italians seem to have it sorted in anything they make. Doesn't have to be loud. 

To me Japanese inline 4's and V's the same, and did you ever get to hear the motogp V5, "music."

[Bassosa]

Aah motorcycles...

 

The one hobby we all share in this nation. Some ride 'm, the rest of the population hear them.

[VocalNeal]

14 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

To me Japanese inline 4's and V's the same, and did you ever get to hear the motogp V5, "music."

Recently only last year at Sepang. 

 

I thought we were talking road bikes and guys who dress like pirates?

[dmitriy82]

"Exhaust" or "pipe" is designed to remove traffic fumes from engine in a safe way. The device designed to "save lives in a loud way" is called "HORN".

[johng]

Loud (exhaust) horns save life's !

[VocalNeal]

18 hours ago, dmitriy82 said:

"Exhaust" or "pipe" is designed to remove traffic fumes from engine in a safe way. The device designed to "save lives in a loud way" is called "HORN".

[canthai55]

My Dyna sets off car alarms !

Take that !

[Agusts]

I think anyone wants a loud exhaust should get a license for it, part of getting one should involve chaining them behind their bike with loud exhaust for a full day and go full throttle every few minutes, if they liked it they can get a license...!!!? lol

 

Although they will soon be deaf and can't hear a thing, so that defeats the purpose...! To be honest I think most of these guys are deaf anyway, and they should take away their motor and driving license ...!

 

The only reasonable loud exhaust could be accepted if it is only produced at high speed and high rev, not in town torturing everyone else at expense of self satisfaction of an crazy attention seeker that can easily be classified as obviously sick by any first year psychologist student ... lol