I'm as much a motorcyclist as anybody, I love everything about the sport...ALMOST.
Yesterday I was a bicyclist, I did a century (100 miles) out a Nevada country road. I was passed by various types of vehicles and noticed something I had never realized (kinda from the view of a non biker situation).
OPEN PIPED HARLEY's ARE OBNOXIOUS from the side of the road! Even big rigs were less of a disturbance going by at 70mph. Try it some time, ride a bicycle along a 2 lane country road and pay attention to exhaust sounds, even high rpm sportbikes don't come close to the "artillary firing" sound of a Harley, even when the Harley's are cruising along a 45 mph. Just pretend you are a citizen that knows nothing about motorcycles when you hear the "streets of thunder" lumber by, especially in a "sounds of nature" environment. I now have a deeper understanding of "noise pollution".
Sad that when you muffle them, you loose 30% of their power!
OK, that's my little rant, I'm done. Doyle
Yesterday I was a bicyclist, I did a century (100 miles) out a Nevada country road. I was passed by various types of vehicles and noticed something I had never realized (kinda from the view of a non biker situation).
OPEN PIPED HARLEY's ARE OBNOXIOUS from the side of the road! Even big rigs were less of a disturbance going by at 70mph. Try it some time, ride a bicycle along a 2 lane country road and pay attention to exhaust sounds, even high rpm sportbikes don't come close to the "artillary firing" sound of a Harley, even when the Harley's are cruising along a 45 mph. Just pretend you are a citizen that knows nothing about motorcycles when you hear the "streets of thunder" lumber by, especially in a "sounds of nature" environment. I now have a deeper understanding of "noise pollution".
Sad that when you muffle them, you loose 30% of their power!
OK, that's my little rant, I'm done. Doyle