You can't have a decent conversation without being rudely interupted by that loud annoying noise of that stupid motor. Why is that if a car has a hole in the muffler and it gets pulled over and ticketed for being loud, but a harley's motor is louder than s*** and that is ok?
2007-10-24 01:34:26 · 42 answers · asked by thebrowncowcool 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
It's kind of a poseur's bike, really. They are really substandard bikes for what you pay---if you doubt it, just watch the rear view mirrors on one when it's idling at a stoplight. You think that vibration speaks to high tech and quality?
The Harley slogan is: "If it sticks out, chrome it, and if it breaks, make it heavier".
I'm amazed anyone pays those prices for them. They are very mediocre machines. The noise makes up for the lack of everything else I guess.
Some years ago we had some obnoxious guy with a small penis problem who would wake up the neighborhood every night at 2 AM. We finally shoved a potato up each exhaust pipe with a broom handle, and we didn't hear that bike for months til he figured out what happened.
2007-10-24 02:35:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 20⤊ 12⤋
The difference between a car with a hole in the muffler and straight pipes is that to pass a safety inspection in Missouri, the vehicle must have an intact exhaust system without leaks and. Straight pipes meet that criteria and holy mufflers, whether on cars or bikes don't. Also keep in mind that not all of those loud bikes are Harleys. The Jap V twins look and sound a lot like a true Harley. As far as sound levels go, a bike is run past a sound meter at a certain speed and the noise level measured. Not just the exhaust, but everything. The louder the engine, transmission and drive chain is, the quieter the factory has to make the exhaust and vice versa. True, I don't like loud pipes either but there's plenty of other guilty parties out there, especially kids playing rap on their stereos. I don't like to be setting at a stop light and be unable to hear my radio because of the noise (I don't consider it music) coming from a vehicle several cars away.
2007-10-24 04:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by bikinkawboy 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Two reasons: 1.) A "tuned" after market exhaust system as part of the stage 1 upgrade will increase your horsepower, those systems aren't always that loud. 2.) Asshats think that drag pipes are a tuned exhaust system. Loudest bike I have personally heard was some douche on a Yama Davidson with straight pipes trying to show a bunch of Harley riders that he was all that. ...and yes the South Park episode on Harley riders was hilarious.
2016-04-10 02:11:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harley Davidson motorcycles meet the same noise emission requirements as any other brand. They have to by law.
Harley Davidson had a reputation for making quiet motorcycles (ie: the Silent Gray Fellow), no other company can say that.
The next time you hear a loud motorcycle, look at the badge on the tank. If you can find one. A Harley does not hide it's name. All the other brands......owner's preference, I guess.
2007-10-24 11:59:53 · answer #4 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 5⤊ 5⤋
I was in Yellowstone earlier this year, out hiking miles from the highway. Totally quiet, you couldn't hear a car or a bus or a semi truck. But those F-ing Harleys were loud and clear.
It isn't that Harleys are so annoying. It's that Harley guy is such a poser and a dweeb.
Back when I started riding, Harley guy was a scary biker. He lived to ride. Everyone and his brother had a Japanese 4cylinder and the Harley was bad-*** and cool. Now the Harley is the McMotorcycle and everyone's grey haired uncle has one for his first bike. The cool is gone. Now it is all about noobs acting what they think is the role of a rebel biker.
2007-10-24 02:50:53 · answer #5 · answered by ninebadthings 7 · 16⤊ 3⤋
they just are
2014-11-10 10:07:39 · answer #6 · answered by G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like loud voices, loud clothes, and loud car stereos, loud motorcycles are for people crying out for attention. Maybe they didn't get enough as kids and just need therapy instead.
2016-09-17 12:57:11 · answer #7 · answered by Shiva 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some states are starting to enforce the excessive noise of aftermarket exhaust systems.
It's only a matter of time until all states enforce this law.
One state has the ordinance on the books, waiting to be voted into law.
No bike will pass inspection without stock exhaust, decibel level not stamped on an aftermarket exhaust, or modified exhaust.
Police will be required to carry noise level detcion devices (as they do with speed checkers).
And have the athourity to impound the bike if it doesn't pass.
So for you "loud pipes save lives" guys, keep the noise level down in residental areas, before to many people complain to their government elected officials.
2007-10-24 03:49:46 · answer #8 · answered by guardrailjim 7 · 13⤊ 2⤋
Because the riders are all jam asses. They disturb normal citizens in their homes, and on the street. And are big cowards because they do all this with noise, then ride off before people can tell them to their face they are freaking idiots and committing crimes. If I lived near one, I wold ride by constantly with a bull horn at all times of the night, everyday until they got the message they are idiots.
2015-02-06 21:00:22 · answer #9 · answered by Chandler 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok I did have a Harley and right from the factory it was too loud. But these people who ride them take the factory pipes off and go with straight pipes and ride with a mean look because they think they are imitating bad guys and they are. Then they say they won't ride quiet because old people on the road can't see them or hear them. Bull crap. the idea is watch out for the other guy. Ride responsibly like your life depends on it. It's transportation not attitude. I ride another brand now and it's nice and quiet and I love it that way. I don't want any attention. You're right those Harley's are way too loud. And the reason they don't get stopped is because the cops are riding Harleys too and they are also loud.
2007-10-24 01:45:45 · answer #10 · answered by thomas m 5 · 9⤊ 5⤋
I have to agree with you here.
Sometimes late at night or early in the morning I am awakened by some poser tearing up the street with his obnoxiously loud exhaust. Most of the time it is some tard wearing a bandana with a skull face on it trying to look intimidating. Wringing out the engine, especially in or near neighborhoods is down right rude & to this day I don't know why they do it aside from trying to be some poser rebel.
The worst part about this is that Harley's sound like absolute crap. Idling at the light with the ...potato potato potato sound and then throttle full cobb from light to light. I don't get it.
2007-10-24 03:25:53 · answer #11 · answered by Motorpsycho 4 · 12⤊ 3⤋