But I don't need to be able to hear someone blocks away, while inside my house, revving the **** out of his bike in his driveway.

Ya know what else saves lives? Not going WOT (or close to) down residential streets.
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im lost

im guessing it was a harley?

 

yes...

i swear... this one dude was making a u-turn. while i was gassing up.

the noise it made, had me covering my ears.

 

I had a neighbor (I live in a apartment) who liked to warm up his harley for 30 minutes every morning at 6am.

My fav harley joke HaHa:

Whats the difference between a harley and a hoover?
The position of the dirtbag.

 

ROFL


well riders get loud pipes so going through tunnels and riding at night will be safer. drivers will be more aware of them. but they dont needa be WOT that **** at home or in neighborhoods.

 

I was eating with my family at a nice Italian restaurant on my birthday last year and since it's located near an intersection we could see all the cars driving by and whatnot. All of a sudden some douchebag on a straight-piped harley rides up to the light and revs the **** out of it making the whole building shake. This went on for almost a minute until the light turned green and he sped off.

I also have a neighbor who used to ride around the block on his harley at full speed every day for around 30 minutes.

Crotch Rockets aren't even close to being that loud and I've never had a problem hearing when they're around me on the road...

 

^^ Shoulda gotten up, ran full speed and shoulder checked him.

Then laugh when his leg is stuck under his now stalled fat pig of a bike.

Its like those weekend warriors who come out to park their pretty bikes at Pier 23 on the Embarcadero every weekend. Such sad, sad people.

 

Isn't it almost always? Sometimes it's squids, but more often than not it's Harley riders/RUBs.

 

And here I half expected to get flamed for making this thread

I don't have anything against responsible bikers, FYI.

 

I don't consider those types to be real bikers. Attention ******? Yes. Middle aged office guys playing tough guy on the weekend? Yes. Guys with little ding-a-ling syndrome? Yes. Real bikers? Not a chance in hell.

 

As a decade plus long biker, I tend to be very critical of not just car drivers, but other bikers. You'll find that most responsible riders get pretty annoyed with the ones that make us all look bad.

 

haha ding-a-ling hahahaha

 

"loud pipes..." is bull**** anyway. I had this guy riding in my blind spot and I couldnt hear him until he passed.

I look out for this all the time now, because I think that is such bull****.

 

Same here cept I have been riding for 17 yrs (eek). Ones that make us look bad... As I was reading this thread some douche in shorts and sneakers almost dumped his R6 in front of my house doing a wiggly u-turn. Also today I saw a female on a streetbike (not sure what it was) in jeans + t-shirt that looked like it would have containment issues on hard braking. I was looking for dead bugs between... Nothin.

 

posted from the other thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi4qVd6E_Ec