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Well, I guess I'll throw in my likely not too popular opinion here too. I hope all law enforcement agencies start writing big dollar tickets for every loud set of pipes they come across, all day, every day, till death do us part. Let me 'splain why, Lucy.
Like Hotrodsrj said, a lot of communities are banning all bikes outright. If local law enforcement would just enforce the noise regulations already at their disposal, communities won't resort to these draconian measures that punish the innocent as well as the guilty. Washington now has laws that won't let you ride your dirt bike on your own dang property because of the abuse by a few.
I love bikes, but I have to say I don't blame the locals for wanting to put a stop to it. I live on a popular motorcycling road and I get sick of the noise, of having to halt conversations till the morons ride by, or take my phone inside on a nice day to finish a conversation, etc, etc. Or you're trying to eat a peaceful meal at an outside restaurant and some idiot can't just start his piece of ***** and leave. Oh no, he has to make certain he's "impressed" everybody in the place. Or the morons who have to warm up their EFI bikes for half an hour in the motel parking lot at 6 in the morning. These idiots just made a lot of people even more likely to cut you off in traffic or write their congressman. This directly affects all of us.
If enough people get fined enough money, maybe the aftermarket will step in and make systems that sound beefy but limit the racket to like 90 decibels (or twice as loud as stock). That's what I want anyway, just enough so I can hear the bike when I'm going down the road. I don't want to set off car alarms. I don't want to annoy the neighbors when I leave for work - they work for the money to buy their house too and have the right not be woke up by my loud pipes. Besides, I paid for the bike, why should the freeloaders get to enjoy the bike music? :razz: I know those pipes can be made. The best sounding bikes going by here are the muffled, but beefy sounding, Guzzis and Ducatis. Heck, even the sport bike riders have quiet options.
Let's face it, the average riders running the V-Twins with open pipes do not care at all about the future of motorcycling and the best thing for those of us who do care is to have the dipwads fined into oblivion.
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