Question for Motorcycle riders

IrishEyes

IrishEyes

Timoc - I am Sharon
Location
Midwest
I live in a 55+ community and this past year has seen a big increase in motorcycles being bought and ridden about loudly.
Enough so it has come to when one rider passes another riders home they rev that engine up to screeching pitch and not just
once but over and over as they slow down by the home.
I have 4 of them now around me and we all know they ride, we know who has the loudest one now.
The man across from me had bought one that rumbled so nicely, it actually was pleasing to hear him when he passed.
Now he traded it for one of those loud screaming, shake your window and can't hear your TV as they pass.

What it reminds me of as they do this ritual is a (excuse my humor here, just being truthful)
Teenage boy's game of measuring their privates (mine is bigger and better than yours type of thing)

My question is, why are Old guys doing this? Especially in what was once a quiet peaceful community.
Is there really a need to rev it so many times and to the extent it sounds like it's about to blow something?
I had biker friends back in the 60-70s and they had respect for noise they made in a residential area, on the highway, different game.

Please, I am not accusing all riders do this. I would just like to understand the thinking or lack of it to the riders around me.
 

Many years ago I worked as a motorcycle courier, carrying letters and parcels around the London area. My bike was quiet and I made sure it stayed that way so that I didn't attract the attention of the police. However, this did mean that I had to put up with tourists stepping off the pavement (sidewalk) in front of me as I filtered through traffic and they looked the wrong way before crossing the road (no jay walking laws in the UK!).

One time I was coming back into London from a delivery in Brighton, when I caught up in traffic with a bloke on a bike that was so loud, that all the pedestrians on the pavements (sidewalks) on both sides of the road were looking at us both. I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me, but he was proud of his deafening machine. I think he was a plonker, but I did appreciate that with the noise he was making, no-one would ever step out in front of him.

As to your neighbours with their big, loud bikes, I think they're trying to relive their rebellious youth, and as you say, play the "Mine's bigger than yours is" game. I think what you should do is ask each one of them what they're trying to compensate for if they have to have such big bikes? (Does it mean they have small dicks?) :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
I have nothing against bikes at all. It's the inconsideration they are showing for the community. We
live right off 3 highways, they could surely wait till they get onto those.
Thank goodness they can't use gas powered boats on our lake here at least.
 
I'm an old guy who took up motorcycling at the age of almost 75. Can't call it a mid life crisis since I was well past mid life. Guess I'll have to call it an end of life crisis. :ROFLMAO: But I hate loud pipes. Modern bikes are all fuel injected which means there is no need to rev an engine except to be an asshole. The exhaust on my Triumph Bonneville T100 is stock and it's pretty quiet and that's the way I like it. Harley riders are the worst with regard to noise. Harleys come ridiculously loud straight from the factory. And then the first thing most of these guys do after they buy them is blow another $600 or more bucks on a new set of pipes that are even louder.

This is what mine sounds like.

 
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Trade said:
I'm an old guy who took up motorcycling at the age of almost 75. Can't call it a mid life crisis since I was well past mid life. Guess I'll have to call it an end of life crisis. :ROFLMAO: But I hate loud pipes. Modern bikes are all fuel injected which means there is no need to rev an engine except to be an asshole. The exhaust on my Triumph Bonneville T100 is stock and it's pretty quiet and that's the way I like it. Harley riders are the worst with regard to noise. Harleys come ridiculously loud straight from the factory. And then the first thing most of these guys do after they buy them is blow another $600 or more bucks on a new set of pipes that are even louder.

This is what mine sounds like.

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That is what the guys bike sounded like before.... Classy. It purred not screamed. That was pleasant to hear him come and go with.
Sure wish he would have kept that one and became a role model for these other show offs.
 

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