What's the deal with the noisy motorbikes screeching around Chiang Mai at 3AM?

I was awoken last night to the sound of a motorbike tearing down the road. I say tearing, but it was really doing quite a modest speed, but making plenty of what seemed like unnecessary noise to my untrained ear. Who are the <deleted> responsible? What do they want?

Lol... I would be happy to hear that kind of "music" in my room....

If u dont like it... Y u dnt put plugs in your ear or live on a island where are no other people;)

hello mister

thailand not same your country. if you not like not have complain. just go back your country no problem.

hello mister

thailand not same your country. if you not like not have complain. just go back your country no problem.

Not a solution. Irresponsible <deleted> are everywhere.

If u dont like it... Y u dnt put plugs in your ear or live on a island where are no other people;)

Interesting.

thailand not same your country. if you not like not have complain. just go back your country no problem.

Interesting.

Not a solution. Irresponsible <deleted> are everywhere.

Inconsiderate I'd say. I can see the attitude now. But still struggling to understand the motivation.

That's when the bars are closing down. There's a guy in our neighborhood with a loud bike -- he goes out almost every night around 10-11 pm and returns around 4 am. Almost always wakes up Hubby.

Many mornings, Hubby stays up, has coffee and then walks around the moat between 5 am - 6 am. This morning he reports that there will probably be one less loud motorcycle somewhere in CM. Apparently, there was an accident near the Chang Puek gate and police were in the process of retrieving a young Thai male body from the moat. There was a smashed motorbike near the moat. Hubby estimated the event probably occurred around 4 am.

Edit: oh, the OP wants to know the motivation. I'll hazard a guess -- the riders are drunk, young, think they're indestructable and want to show off the big equipment between their legs.

Edited June 3, 201313 yr by NancyL

Thats really some biiiig problems in chiang mai!

I would dig a whole and live under the earth:))))

Edit: oh, the OP wants to know the motivation. I'll hazard a guess -- the riders are drunk, young, think they're indestructable and want to show off the big equipment between their legs.

Interesting - and mostly Thai or Farang would you say?

Lol... I would be happy to hear that kind of "music" in my room....

If u dont like it... Y u dnt put plugs in your ear or live on a island where are no other people;)

Interesting that in one thread you try to sell a bike to a farang; here you tell them to leave the country. In the US, we call that shooting yourself in the foot.

They're just street-racing dek-waans. I mean its just one of the annoyances of living in a city. Personally I really dont mind them, I'm used to them already. Much more welcoming than hearing police and ambulance sirens back when I was living in Boston and Providence. I mean its annoying, but nothing to bite someone's head off over.

Edit: oh, the OP wants to know the motivation. I'll hazard a guess -- the riders are drunk, young, think they're indestructable and want to show off the big equipment between their legs.

Interesting - and mostly Thai or Farang would you say?

This kind of thing isnt race based.

Its just boys on bikes..with afew beers in them..at the weekend.

Its global.

Guys do it in cars too. ..ie: suped up Volkswagen GTI's in the west, vibrating even when idle.

Thailand just seems to have a pretty bad case of bad mufflers or guys who like the sound of their bikes without them.

I'm heading home

I will try to keep it down (errr NOT

Little bit of sugar in the petrol tank used to cure this problem around my way a few years back....or a potato up the exhaust pipe.

I'm heading home

I will try to keep it down (errr NOT

Very cute. In addition to waking up babies, disturbing the sick and elderly, interrupting conversations and ceremonies, etc. do you find that you have other characteristics of a sociopath?

My observation through life is that people who make a loud noise be it on a motor bike or in a car ,shouting,playing loud music etc are crying out for attention and basically insecure. Amexpat you are so right,wish I had you for a neighbour

as many of the harley boys claimed

Lol potatoes in the exchaust?

Omg..... Just because not everybody isnt a nerd that dont mean that "we" not selfconfident or have lag of attention.

Everybody is different and have different hobbys... Unfortunelty the nerd sitting at 3am with a book on his balcony and the rude , stupid,<deleted> , lag of attention freak pass by with his bike or car and play loud music?! <deleted>?!?!

It disturbs me too to see nerd with their weird pants and xxxxxx shirts reading books at the gates on one of those benches there... And??? Do i blame anybody?

Thats really over acting !!!!

And the potato and suger thing....shows how nice person u are to destroy other people property. Congratiulations!

If i see nerd with their glasses next time next time... Should i smack their heads on the street to broke their glasses? I think not good idea...

Live and let live!

Edited June 3, 201313 yr by metisdead

And yes i sell motorbikes to farang... But not eveybody is same... People like u i would not even sell my socks, understand?

Ignorant person.... Live in anoter country and claim about things here... Hate it or love it!

If u hate it , go back... I think nobody was beggin u to come here

Jomtieneats:

In germany we call that vollpfosten;)

Loud pipes massage fragile egos.

Riding skills and sober judgement save lives.

Just look at CHIPs or other highway patrol with their big, whisper quiet bikes and good safety records.

But if you still think that riding that bike is so dangerous that you have to disturb the peace everywhere you go,

do the right thing and give it up. Take up bicycling or hiking or something.

hello mister

thailand not same your country. if you not like not have complain. just go back your country no problem.

Not a solution. Irresponsible <deleted> are everywhere.

hello mister

thailand not same your country. if you not like not have complain. just go back your country no problem.

Not a solution. Irresponsible <deleted> are everywhere.

Irresponsible <deleted> are everywhere

guess they keep on meeting over-sensitives too

Loud pipes saves lifes.

Amexpat- So that means everybody who ride loud pipes have no skills? Lol... All right....

Good night

Edited June 3, 201313 yr by myk187

Sparkles, on 03 Jun 2013 - 20:16, said:

My observation through life is that people who make a loud noise be it on a motor bike or in a car ,shouting,playing loud music etc are crying out for attention and basically insecure.

Well lets hope they get some of that attention from the BiB that they so richly deserve. On some level they're seeking that confrontation.

Police in Krabi have an idea.

http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2012/Krabi-Police-clamp-down-on-noisy-motorbikes-19519.html

It may have been me on my HD.I have loud pipes on it,sounds like thunder.It's my horn.I want people to see me. Maybe I won't get ran over.Sorry I'm just trying to stay alive

What's the deal with the noisy motorbikes screeching around Chiang Mai at 3AM?

I was awoken last night to the sound of a motorbike tearing down the road. I say tearing, but it was really doing quite a modest speed, but making plenty of what seemed like unnecessary noise to my untrained ear. Who are the <deleted> responsible? What do they want?

It's usually just a bunch of uneducated and borderline retarded teenagers, nothing special about it, you can find those morons everywhere in the world... They are still in the middle of their "vroom vroom" phase that is supposed to end at about 12 years old.

What is more pathetic is the adults who try to imitate them with their modified Harley. This breed of idiots is sadly proliferating at great speed in this country. Can you imagine that those retards voluntarily modified their bikes so that they can wake up half of the population in a 5km radius everytime they pull the throttle? There are few things in this world that show more selfishness and stupidity. They don't even realize they look like gay clowns with their leather costumes and that everybody find them laughable.

Lol... I would be happy to hear that kind of "music" in my room....

If u dont like it... Y u dnt put plugs in your ear or live on a island where are no other people;)

It's quite ironic that someone who doesn't even grasp basic concepts of living among other people (like one should not make as much noise as possible when everybody is sleeping) is suggesting others to live on a deserted island...

It may have been me on my HD.I have loud pipes on it,sounds like thunder.It's my horn.I want people to see me. Maybe I won't get ran over.Sorry I'm just trying to stay alive

Try to bear in mind that if you tear around CM at night making a racket, you might be disturbing the sleep of upto 10,000 people.

Generally I don't notice it during the day - it's competing with all sorts of other noise pollution . . . but at night it's noticeable and you'll get people's backs up. It's inviting a crack down, which, if it comes, will likely apply at all times.

If this is the worst problem the OP has had in his life, than he has no problems at all.

Down my way, I hear the chickens cock a dooda looing, the dogs howling, wild cats fighting, heavy vehicles thundering down the highway, motor bikes that sound like airplanes, and worst of all, the wife snoring and my neighbor coughing his lungs up and farting, which goes on all through the night, but I am well used to all that now.

Welcome to Thailand.

Edited June 3, 201313 yr by Beetlejuice

what happens when or if they take the vehicle test.too loud it will fail.this is a similar issue in many countries so why worry take a sleeping tablet and sleep

If this is the worst problem the OP has had in his life, than he has no problems at all.

Down my way, I hear the chickens cock a dooda looing, the dogs howling, wild cats fighting, heavy vehicles thundering down the highway, motor bikes that sound like airplanes, and worst of all, the wife snoring and my neighbor coughing his lungs up and farting, which goes on all through the night, but I am well used to all that now.

Welcome to Thailand.

lol excactyly!!!!

Welcome to thailand

The funny thing is... My loud pipe is from USA which is in germany not allowed

I love that pipe... Awesome!

I think around 180db )