Bwa hahaha!!!

I love how bub rub and lil sis about get into an accident driving away to show off their new 'pipes'... Oy.

Well, the cops have them on tape running a stop sign. The next woooo woooo he hears might be a police siren.

The beauty of it is, he won't be able to hear the police siren.

I do not understand this need to draw attention to oneself. Why is there such a cultural need to point out that you are stupid and inconsiderate, and fuck all if they don't like it?

That whistle thingy is illegal here.:mad:

How is it not illegal there?

I think the topic isn't about trying to showing off, rather it's about being safe.
You can certainly hear any bike with straight pipes well before it comes into view, unless you just happen to be looking that way.
BrianR's statement that "all they do is cause noise ordinances." ignores this fact.
Noise for the sake of noise is surely dumb, but noise for the sake of safety is a proven fact.
One of my pet peeves is bikers that sit at the light and constantly goose the throttle, as if their motor was going to stall. But that doesn't change the fact that loud pipes will let you know there is a bike around, and that *can* save a life.

Probably doesn't though, and they're annoying as fuck all to people that live in popular biking areas.

Not if every potentially dangerous item on the road made a loud noise. people would either go deaf or wear ear defenders. No added safety. also, loud bikes (and other vehicles) can prevent blind pedetrians hearing the pedestrain crossing signals.

Perhaps, though, we could kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, by forcing people with dangerous driving points on their licenses to have these noisemakers attached/mufflers removed. So (a) we can hear the idiots coming, and (b) the noise might lose it's fashion appeal for those who are actually good drivers. I certainly find that operating under the assumption that if i can hear a car a mile away, it is likely to be being badly driven works for me. :lol:

how do you feel about shifting into one gear higher than you should be in, and goosing the throttle in a tunnel.....BWAAAAAGGGHT!

I kinda like that.

WHAT HE SAID.

Loud pipes may be good for attracting attention from the car next to you if you are driving at an identical speed, but they have to be really loud and then that invokes the "just pisses people off and makes them hate bikes more principle", so it sort of negates the effect.

I've still never heard how it can be safer for a biker to be sitting still next to my apartment building, and revving his loud engine and pipes. It has always been unsafe for them.

Pics of the latest bike meet I attended:

Myrtle Beach 2008

http://picasaweb.google.com/AnesMerc...chBikeWeek2008

Good show, thanks.

Where are the tits and tats? This should be a NSFW thread.