Why do you need to rev it early in the morning for 5 minutes waking up the neighborhood?
I seem to remember South Park having a word for inconsiderate people like this, but I can’t remember what it was…
Small dicked babys
Careful… don’t get the Trump crowd too excited, now.
Because they’re selfish, thoughtless arseholes.
My friend rides and he had to mod his to have option to quiet it down when he goes back home to his apt building.
However, I do understand why he needs it loud everywhere else. Cars as is may not see him and the loudness helps… However, I wouldn’t trust other drivers still.
Louder bikes are not safer.
Agree. I think either way its dangerous.
They are craving for recognition.
Its not their fault. They were just born with excessively small genitals.
I dated a person with a micropenis and she did not behave like that.
Maybe it’s a man thing?
I know too many cisgenderd AFABs that do it to think it’s just a man thing.
I also know a couple guys with small ones and they also for the most part aren’t like that either, so it’s definitely not size.
Proposed consensus: maybe they’re just assholes?
Blaming deuterosomy, bold but I like it
Carbureted or not, it certainly helps if either the manufacturer or the owner doesn’t put on a super loud exhaust, I own a bike with a relatively quiet exhaust to the point I’ve gotten multiple offers from family and relatives to have it swapped to a louder exhaust, and they don’t understand when I tell them I absolutely despise that shit
Thank you for your service.
My dad has been riding most of his life, and I have most of mine. Both of us have noticed that the “loud pipes save lives” slogan is a farce. If a driver is tuning out they will not notice your exhaust. If a driver is on their phone it won’t make a difference.
The trick is to ride defensively and wear a helmet. There’s a reason neither me nor my dad got into a serious accident get, its because we believe every car is out to get us, not that “if I’m loud and obnoxious they’ll notice me”
They’re assholes.
Been riding in a European city with a bike that can go from 2k to 12k rpm. Of course in resident areas I kept it so low to be indistinguishable from the cars around me.
EV motorcycles exist. Zero reason to ride a gas one in a neighborhood.
Used motorcycle market is something like 95% ICE bikes. A new motorcycle with comparable stats costs new from 10-30k€
Meanwhile used ICEs go from 2-10k. Guess which one I could afford.
Pretty sure in Australia they might be too powerful for learners
There’s a huge learner market for 250cc’s in Oz due to the learner-power restrictions. I’m on an open licence now, I borrowed a bike to get licensed.
Carbureted bikes may need a little time to warm up in order to hold idle without dying. A clean and tune should fix that, but that’s effort the owner may not be in a position to make for whatever reason.
However, all you need to do is hold the throttle at, say, 1500 RPM instead of 1000. Enough to not die. Adding a cheap throttle lock makes it so you don’t even have to stand there while it warms up.
There is zero reason to rev a bike in neutral, at any time, besides dick swinging.
My bike used to die if I idled at stop lights for too long before I worked in the carb a bit. So if I felt the engine slowing, I would blip the throttle to keep it running. But this was purely utilitarian, and my bike isn’t a loud one
I differentiate between blip and rev.
Im so glad my new bike has fuel injection. I can ride immediately after start. Hated carb bikes, their chokes and all that gunk that accumulates in there.
Oh I love me some carburetors, but yeah, FI on a daily driver is wonderful.
There is nothing to like about carbs. They are a compromise on fueling, they waste gas, they clog up, they suck too cold or too hot or too high.
They’re 100% mechanical and you can usually fix them with a flat screwdriver and some pliers.
Depending on the bike, you may need to rev it a bit to warm it up and keep from stalling.
My monster Harley is loud as hell, which is why I bought the Suzuki. Harley is for long trips, and the Suzuki, which is far quieter than the neighbors kids, is for riding to work or the corner store.
What keeps you from reving it while you’re already driving away?
That’ll warm up the engine just fine.
Or even better: Put quality synthetic oil with the right viscosity in, have your carb cleaned and tuned correctly so it starts properly, and put a new muffler on it while you’re in the shop.As far as why not rev while riding, the RPM required for slow technical control, me getting off the patio, across the yard, and through the fence, on the Harley is way too precise to try and also manage blipping the engine to keep it running.
As far as oil and tuning, it has the right oil, and it has a custom ECU that handles all the tuning automatically based on how I ride.
One of the mufflers did fall off a few years ago, and to maintain symmetry I removed the other one.
Maybe that’s why the bike is loud as fuck
If the bike had its mufflers removed, then the ECU map won’t work properly.
So many idiots make their bikes louder and slower.
If it has an ECU and can’t idle from cold, something is fucked.
Also, I hope your neighbor starts to knock down walls with a jackhammer at 3am.You obviously didn’t read my earlier response, stating that all this is the reason I bought a second, quiet motorcycle for early morning rides to work etc.
The beast only comes out for long trips, and for that I prep it the day before and park it in the street.
I’m not an asshole, I’m just a guy who has a loud bike.
But that defines you as an asshole.
Harleys are not loud from the factory.
One of the mufflers did fall off a few years ago, and to maintain symmetry I removed the other one. Maybe that’s why the bike is loud as fuck
muffle
/ˈməf(ə)l/
To muffle means to deaden or make a sound quieter by wrapping, covering, or shielding the noise source.
Yeah I think we cracked the case
They are stupid and they think that if they like the noise everyone else likes it
or
They are stupid and they think no one else can hear it.
To sum up: they are stupid.
Attention seeking behavior. They have an internal desire to be noticed all the time.
Most aren’t trying to be assholes, just noticed.
Most aren’t trying to be assholes
imagine being so good at something without even trying!
Need to maximise that fuel to momentum inefficiencies.
Emotional support vehicle.
Probably to make people run to the internet and complain.
