Why do you need to rev it early in the morning for 5 minutes waking up the neighborhood?
Its not their fault. They were just born with excessively small genitals.
Electric cars and trucks will reduce a lot of noise pollution, but electric motorcycles will take us from quieter to eerily quiet… Can’t happen soon enough.
Switching from mopeds to electric bikes has made such a tremendous difference already
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In the city that is pretty common for bicycles LOL
I would take a motorcycle revving over the noise some EVs make. Holy shit it is the most annoying sound I’ve ever heard and I’m terrified of a world where all cars sound like that.
Carbureted or not, it certainly helps if either the manufacturer or the owner doesn’t put on a super loud exhaust, I own a bike with a relatively quiet exhaust to the point I’ve gotten multiple offers from family and relatives to have it swapped to a louder exhaust, and they don’t understand when I tell them I absolutely despise that shit
Thank you for your service.
My dad has been riding most of his life, and I have most of mine. Both of us have noticed that the “loud pipes save lives” slogan is a farce. If a driver is tuning out they will not notice your exhaust. If a driver is on their phone it won’t make a difference.
The trick is to ride defensively and wear a helmet. There’s a reason neither me nor my dad got into a serious accident get, its because we believe every car is out to get us, not that “if I’m loud and obnoxious they’ll notice me”
I knew a guy who would wear a high visibility vest like road construction workers wear. Also a bright orange helmet. It seemed to make a difference.
Because they’re selfish, thoughtless arseholes.
Emotional support vehicle.
They’re assholes.
Been riding in a European city with a bike that can go from 2k to 12k rpm. Of course in resident areas I kept it so low to be indistinguishable from the cars around me.
Depending on the bike, you may need to rev it a bit to warm it up and keep from stalling.
My monster Harley is loud as hell, which is why I bought the Suzuki. Harley is for long trips, and the Suzuki, which is far quieter than the neighbors kids, is for riding to work or the corner store.
What keeps you from reving it while you’re already driving away?
That’ll warm up the engine just fine.
Or even better: Put quality synthetic oil with the right viscosity in, have your carb cleaned and tuned correctly so it starts properly, and put a new muffler on it while you’re in the shop.As far as why not rev while riding, the RPM required for slow technical control, me getting off the patio, across the yard, and through the fence, on the Harley is way too precise to try and also manage blipping the engine to keep it running.
As far as oil and tuning, it has the right oil, and it has a custom ECU that handles all the tuning automatically based on how I ride.
One of the mufflers did fall off a few years ago, and to maintain symmetry I removed the other one.
Maybe that’s why the bike is loud as fuck
If it has an ECU and can’t idle from cold, something is fucked.
Also, I hope your neighbor starts to knock down walls with a jackhammer at 3am.You obviously didn’t read my earlier response, stating that all this is the reason I bought a second, quiet motorcycle for early morning rides to work etc.
The beast only comes out for long trips, and for that I prep it the day before and park it in the street.
I’m not an asshole, I’m just a guy who has a loud bike.
Maybe put on mufflers anyway, so your ECU starts working correctly again.
But that defines you as an asshole.
Harleys are not loud from the factory.
One of the mufflers did fall off a few years ago, and to maintain symmetry I removed the other one. Maybe that’s why the bike is loud as fuck
muffle
/ˈməf(ə)l/
To muffle means to deaden or make a sound quieter by wrapping, covering, or shielding the noise source.
Yeah I think we cracked the case
If the bike had its mufflers removed, then the ECU map won’t work properly.
So many idiots make their bikes louder and slower.
It’s tuned poorly and doesn’t run right until it heats up.
It’s not about running right or wrong. Engines run differently at different temps. Idling after start isn’t necessary if you get on and ride immediately though. But I did have to choke mine a bit for the first few minutes.
Got rid of it though. It was stupid noisy and I hated myself on it until I could get out of the city.
Once I was home in the afternoon, with my months-old baby finally napping after god knows how long nursing her (very difficult to fall asleep between chronic stomach ache attacks, choppy nights, really miserable at that time).
I hear a motorbike in the street, revving up the engine. I step outside, go to the (young) guy and tell him that my baby is trying to nap. The fucker says nothing, looks me in the eye and takes off at maximum speed/noise.
Not that I really wished it at the moment, but statistically, the bastard is dead by now. Or maybe he has kids of his own and he’s doing good, being nice to people - who knows?
Attention seeking behavior. They have an internal desire to be noticed all the time.
Most aren’t trying to be assholes, just noticed.
Most aren’t trying to be assholes
imagine being so good at something without even trying!
Carbureted bikes may need a little time to warm up in order to hold idle without dying. A clean and tune should fix that, but that’s effort the owner may not be in a position to make for whatever reason.
However, all you need to do is hold the throttle at, say, 1500 RPM instead of 1000. Enough to not die. Adding a cheap throttle lock makes it so you don’t even have to stand there while it warms up.
There is zero reason to rev a bike in neutral, at any time, besides dick swinging.
My bike used to die if I idled at stop lights for too long before I worked in the carb a bit. So if I felt the engine slowing, I would blip the throttle to keep it running. But this was purely utilitarian, and my bike isn’t a loud one
I differentiate between blip and rev.
This video explains why, but it doesn’t cite any sources so I’m not sure whether it really is scientifically accurate:
idk looks pretty accurate to me
How else are they supposed to let everyone else know they’re riding a motorcycle?
Have you ever noticed when walking on the sidewalk that motorcyclists always make eye contact? They need to be sure people are observing them.
They’re making sure you’re not going to dash into the street in front of them.
Loud pipes save lives is a myth and just an excuse to be an asshole.
some men think being masculine comes from loud pipes, but i’m of the opinion that real masculinity is being able to hear 😎
An arroyo runs through my neighborhood (dry river bed). The kids ride their dirt bikes through it. I noticed a couple of years ago a few kids had electric versions. They’re very quiet, and the kids have just as much fun, it seems. I was happy to see that.
We still have the small-dicks who rev their cars, trucks, and bikes on their way to work every morning, though. Probably the same fools who set off near-professional grade fireworks every night for several days around the 4th of July. It used to be only on the 4th, but now it spreads across a week, plus New Years, and Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
Can’t wait for genetic modification that gives every male the same size dick.
