[Maker]

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.

[JRcorvette]

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….

[RICH1]

TWO WORDS ..... Cherry Bombs

[Captainpd]

Originally Posted by Villager1234

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”

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

[airstreamingypsy]

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

[JanRoberts]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

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.

"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.

[ChrisTee]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

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.

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

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

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.

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!!! 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.

[ChrisTee]

Originally Posted by JanRoberts

"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.

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.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by JanRoberts

we just love the sound of Harleys!!

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.

Originally Posted by PugMom

not @ all!! bikers on Harley's i've ever known are,: patriots, gentlemen bikers on rice burners tend to be: inconsiderate

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

[HORNET]

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!

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by HORNET

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.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by JRcorvette

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….

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.

Originally Posted by JanRoberts

"Loud pipes save lives," and we just love the sound of Harleys!!
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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

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[Harold.wiser]

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!

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by Harold.wiser

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.