Why do you need to rev it early in the morning for 5 minutes waking up the neighborhood?
Because they’re selfish, thoughtless arseholes.
Its not their fault. They were just born with excessively small genitals.
I dated a person with a micropenis and she did not behave like that.
Maybe it’s a man thing?
I know too many cisgenderd AFABs that do it to think it’s just a man thing.
I also know a couple guys with small ones and they also for the most part aren’t like that either, so it’s definitely not size.
Proposed consensus: maybe they’re just assholes?
Blaming deuterosomy, bold but I like it
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
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.
No fucking chance. Motorbrains will never abandon their custom exhausts. For them riding a bike without annoying everyone around doesn’t make any sense. Why bother if no one is looking at you?
Put up traffic cameras with microphones attached.
If someone drives by and makes too much noise, they get a fine in the mail.They will just slow down right before it. It will be great for people living right next to it but wont solve the issue.
The proper solution would be to de legalize modified exhausts. Both sales and possession. Treat it like fireworks or other socially harmful things. If you stop someone riding with one you charge them with possession. You look for workshops that install them and charge them with possession. You look for stores that sell them and charge them with sales.
The nice thing about it is that you don’t really have to look for them like for drugs. You can hear to from kilometers away, just part next to highway and stop the obvious offenders. Small fine for first time offenders and huge one for re-offenders. That’s what they did in Singapore and it’s working.
Cheap enormous Bluetooth speakers enter the chat
Need to maximise that fuel to momentum inefficiencies.
Emotional support vehicle.
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.
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.
Loud pipes save lives is a myth and just an excuse to be an asshole.
They’re making sure you’re not going to dash into the street in front of them.
Think of all the lives they’ve saved with those loud pipes.
My friend rides and he had to mod his to have option to quiet it down when he goes back home to his apt building.
However, I do understand why he needs it loud everywhere else. Cars as is may not see him and the loudness helps… However, I wouldn’t trust other drivers still.
Agree. I think either way its dangerous.
Louder bikes are not safer.
Probably to make people run to the internet and complain.
I can’t sleep without my windows being closed anymore. Traffic is so bad, and there’s far too many people cursed with small genitalia.
As for idling it, it’s because they don’t believe in computers making their engine run correctly.
Love the casual body shaming in your comment
I seem to remember South Park having a word for inconsiderate people like this, but I can’t remember what it was…
Small dicked babys
Careful… don’t get the Trump crowd too excited, now.
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.
Im so glad my new bike has fuel injection. I can ride immediately after start. Hated carb bikes, their chokes and all that gunk that accumulates in there.
Oh I love me some carburetors, but yeah, FI on a daily driver is wonderful.
There is nothing to like about carbs. They are a compromise on fueling, they waste gas, they clog up, they suck too cold or too hot or too high.
They’re 100% mechanical and you can usually fix them with a flat screwdriver and some pliers.
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.
EV motorcycles exist. Zero reason to ride a gas one in a neighborhood.
Pretty sure in Australia they might be too powerful for learners
There’s a huge learner market for 250cc’s in Oz due to the learner-power restrictions. I’m on an open licence now, I borrowed a bike to get licensed.
Used motorcycle market is something like 95% ICE bikes. A new motorcycle with comparable stats costs new from 10-30k€
Meanwhile used ICEs go from 2-10k. Guess which one I could afford.
