Loud Mufflers (Oxymoron)
 

Why do so many teenage senior citizens have to have loud mufflers on their cars? My neighbor wakes me up at 6:05 every morning. It seems that whenever I am enjoying a meal outdoors someone has to drive by and almost break my eardrums. It would be just as easy for them to hang a sign on their rear bumper saying “I am a jerk”

Oh no. We aren't neighbors are we?

There was a thread about 3 weeks ago, about this subject. It didn't specifically start out about the "teenage senior citizens" who think have a loud vehicle is cool ... but I made sure it got to that point :bigbow:

I asked what the attraction was and why anyone would think it's "cool" to have an automobile or motorcycle, loud enough to annoy most anyone. They all ran for the hills and didn't offer any justification.

Boys being boys .... 50+ years after actually being a "boy".

This is about motorcycles, but same theory. https://youtu.be/ipDmsxQVxIM

Hey Harley’s get free pass when nerds started owning them. The excuse is have here them coming. If rice rocket only hear them going.:oops:

Only 2 kinds of people own Harley-Davidsons.

1%'ers and wannabe posers. That coming from someone who's owned 6 of them.

They do nothing well. Chrome, glitter and noise.

At least I was always upfront about it.

It has nothing to do with being cool. Personally, I think it is done deliberately to annoy other people. I put them in the same category as those who play loud music in their car with the windows open, bring dogs everywhere they go, bring children into stores who do nothing but scream and annoy everyone in the store, and those who hang wind chimes in their yard to spread noise to their neighbor's property. If you complain about it, they act as if you are the problem.

I've only encountered 1 person with a loud vehicle here, too bad he lives a few houses down and he has both a Harley and one of the 'hot rod' golf carts. I have to admit I don't know him but I have built an opinion of the kind of person he is. I think passing judgement on someone without giving them a fair chance is just plain wrong, in this case I'm ok admitting that I've done something wrong.

Most of the loud vehicles I here are landscape and contractor trucks. Harley's do get a pass as they sound great and a few muscle cars with loud exhausts can be tolerated.

And backpack blowers with muffler guts removed.

:bigbow: I find nothing wrong with mellow glass pack mufflers on a flathead 8 cylinder Ford. Can't get any more American than that.:coolsmiley:

When I was about 18, in the early 70s, I had a friend who was cool. He was like Fonzie-cool.
I had on old Chevy sedan, maybe an Impala, but not a hot-rod. The muffler fell off, as they do. I told my friend I was going to put on a glass pack, or maybe a Thrush. He told me, No way, just use a regular muffler, you will be sorry if you use a glass pack. He was cool, so I did what he said. As time went by, I appreciated that quieter, standard muffler.

Another reason to embrace EVs is less noise pollution.

Performance exhaust available for Mustang EV

http://https://www.borla.com/product...-system-253100

So sad how thirsty for attention some people are. “LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME”
If it’s a head shaking in disgust and plugged ears you’re looking for, that’s a win from me.

Light turns green. Mustang sits there. Revs engine, makes lots of noise. Still sits there. Other lane traffic is flowing. More loud exhaust. Does a burnout to finally move ahead. Unmarked PD behind him pulls over Mustang.
Now watch insurance triple for a reckless driving ticket.

All Corvettes and Harley’s are loud when you start them up. That is from the Factory and there is nothing you can do about it. A lot of people living in the Villages can’t hear anything and a lot of people just like to complain about everything.

Enjoy Life….

TWO WORDS ..... Cherry Bombs

Really, almost breaks my eardrums.. Stopped reading there as the post was full of non-truths..

There was an article in the NY Times day before yesterday about a guy terrorizing Seattle with his Dodge Charger Hellcat. The cat idles at 84 decibels. Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets - The New York Times

"Loud pipes save lives," and we just love the sound of Harleys!! However, my husband backs his bike down the driveway and I push it to the farthest point around our surrounding houses to try and help minimize the volume on that AMAZING start-up sound if he's/we're leaving on an early ride. If y'all don't know about The Village Nomads, it's a riding group for all bikes/trikes and they ride every Wednesday and Saturday morning leaving from Colony.

This.
People. Who. WANT. to. Annoy. Others

not @ all!! bikers on Harley's i've ever known are,: patriots, gentlemen to ladies who respect their bikes (lol), and very helpful to anyone. yes, i mean those big hairy mean looking ones sometimes have a pet poodle @ home! i saw 1 guy stop his bike in traffic to help a kid cross the street in NewHaven. no lie!!! :D bikers on rice burners tend to be: inconsiderate, passing me on right AND left doing over 90mph. no offense to those who own them, it's just my exp of being on the roads of the Eastern seaboard.

It's all about that biker at the expense of everyone else.

To heck with anyone else. Disturb the peace & enjoyment of hundreds of other people. Backing a bike down a driveway means the bike rider KNOWS the noise is disruptive and wrong, otherwise they'd fire it up in their driveway and let it run awhile. (after all the neighbors might ask a loud biker to stop disturbing the peace, and who wants accountability for being so rude and selfish?). So sneak out of your neighborhood and then let it rip. Impose that unwanted loud noise on every other person within miles!!! That's OK, right? Why should hundreds of other people not have there lives disrupted? The bike rider is so much more important than everyone else. Spread it for miles and impose it on everyone within earshot! They're just strangers. It's exhilarating and powerful - right? Self important. Oh you are so tough & powerful, and more important than anyone else. Remember what a loud biker wants is much more important than the peace and enjoyment of hundreds of other people. It's all about the person riding that bike at the expense of everyone else. Vroom. Vroom.

Harley Davidsons don't have to sound like log trucks, their riders just like it that way because they want to act tough and be noticed. They are the height of 1930's technology gone wrong, lets say stuck in time and performance. This is coming from someone who in his younger days did install a few sets of drag pipes, stoker kits and piles of chrome on my own bikes, thankfully I came to my senses in my early 30s and left that mess behind for the teenagers and infirmed of mind. I also dig the older technology, my tractor is a 1941 and my Dodge is a 1942 design. I for one strongly dislike loud pipes on sports cars, redneck pickups (I have one currently) log trucks (read that as Harleys) as well as rice grinders when ridden in public. Put them on a drag strip or other race track and I'm happy to hear the noise. I attend drag and drives and thoroughly enjoy that time and group. The car/bike community has consistently been the best group of people I've ever encountered.

I've spent a lot of time around bikers of all kinds, much like the rest of society you will find good and bad in each group. In fact, I've known some that were great people until the moment they throw a leg over and some that are the opposite. As I sit and think about it I'd say I've known the extreme in each direction as biker friends or acquaintances.

Mod, you will be happy to know I left out several colorful and inappropriate werds in my descriptions above, I'm doing better :eclipsee_gold_cup:

Order a new Harley, pay around 30 Thousand, take the factory designed exhaust system and throw them in the corner and install a set of loud pipes? WOW!

A lotta folks do it, and don't forget the 5kof chrome parts they buy to replace the factory parts, they end up in the pile next to the factory pipes. BUT, the chrome parts do serve an important purpose, when they fall off in the ditch they are much easier to find. :a040:

That's ridiculous. Both Corvettes and Harley-Davidson meet DOT requirements when the come off the assembly line. You can barely hear them from 10' away on start up.

The science has disproven the theory that "loud pipes saves lives", over & over & over again.

It's a cute sound bite, for riders that think they're cool and don't care about the noise impact to others.


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A New Study Confirms 'Loud Pipes Save Lives' Is a Safety Myth

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/lou...-myth-or-fact/

We rode our "loud Harleys" to the Florida National Cemetery on Sunday and placed hundreds of flags on gravesites of veterans. We are riding them back this Sunday to take the flags down.
Toy runs, rides to support various charitable organizations, helping veterans in need, etc, Harley riders are always there.
You don't like the sound my bike makes? I don't like the sound your yapping little ankle-biter dog makes. Turn down your hearing aids!

I'm sure your after-market pipes added to the ambience and those buried in the FL National Cemetery, appreciated you letting them know you were approaching.

If I had garage to garage 55 gasser with blown hemi with fender well headers I’d buy one. Nothing sweeter than blown hemi on startup out fender well header’s. Zommie’s little too radical for street. Yes, hearing blown gasser saves lives.

I need on of these to roll down my street at 7am to get tires warmed up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=m0fSsjndvUk

"They sound great" is just your opinion. Actually, I kind of like it, too. But not at 6am roaring by leaving my wife and I clutching the the ceiling fan in our bedroom.

is this you

Nailed it!

On a motorcycle loud pipes save lives.

No excuse on a car. They like the attention.

I moved from a farming community where everyone went to work before the sun most days. I had to adjust my sleep schedule cause there's no way I'm complaining about someone going to work.

On the flip side, if I went to work every morning at 6am I wouldn't have a loud vehicle OR I would move out of a place where people live five feet apart. But not everyone was raised right

I proclaim, understatement of the day :eclipsee_gold_cup:

I would agree. 9 out of 10 loud vehicles are trucks.

It was allowed when geeks brought Harley’s thinking they was cool finely in in charge. Rules have changed since 1965.

Ahhh ... only people who drive loud cars are looking for attention.


That explains it.


https://youtu.be/4h4VepNuGB4