I'm trying to understand... So just because the bike is from Japan that means that the majority of the riders are Asian? Well for starters, never in my life have I seen a Asian motorcycle rider.
Wow three pages and nobody compared bikes (or anything with a loud exhaust really) to those d-bags that roll around with their stereos turned up to the max. The bass from those things carries forever, and I'd rather hear some exhaust noise than somebody else's taste in "music".
It seems like too many people are rapped up in what others choose to ride (or listen to). I don't own a motorcycle and I don't enjoy the noise they make but it isn't a huge inconvenience to hear them occasionally on the road or at stop lights. I would agree with laws preventing people from just revving them (or playing music loudly) for extended periods of time in a neighborhood or an apartment complex but anything else is really just making a big stink because you don't like it instead of trying to protect your rights.
I hate them and wish they would all go away. I have no problem with motorbikes, but there is no reason for something that obnoxiously loud. People do plenty of stupid things with their vehicles (dropping them, raising them, painting airbrushed virgin mary's on them etc) but almost none of them directly affect me. The harley is different. **** harleys.
THIS Winner winner chicken dinner. Ill bet half of you guys whining about motorcycles are the same types to be blasting your stereos at full blast with your trunk hinge rattling off driving by my house at 2am. or sitting at the gas station with it blasting and pumping. Ill make no excuse for loving to ride scooters, but at least I have the good sense to not yank my mufflers off or ride like a maniac from light to light like some of the young douches I see showing off on their sport bikes....attention whores?? Indeed...Ive never seen any of the old guys Ive rode with posing at lights...that is ludicrous and they would probably be made fun of unmercifully if they were seen doign what was described earlier.
I disagree. I believe most of the people with Harley problems also DESPISE people who ride around blasting music with their windows down and subs rattling. They just hate the obnoxious noise. My two cents.
I wouldn't disrespect them. :grin: NSFW <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZL7D9xsx9Kc?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZL7D9xsx9Kc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> I'd rather listen to the loud rumble. When I hear them coming I tell my son, "Hey! A motorcycle is coming!" And he looks for it. I despise the crotch rockets zipping through traffic like they are rolling in a ball of safety being douchebags. If they are travelling in a large group it's even worse. Because one will zip past you, slow way down and then wave his buddies around. And WTF is with taking the bottoms of brooms and slapping it onto your helmet. THAT totally makes you cool.
I have never seen a sport bike on the street without a silencer. the super loud cruisers are all straight pipes.
I used to live next door to a drag car racer. Every couple months he'd rev up the engine to tune it up. THAT was the loudest engine in creation. Of course when we played our music too loud one time for an ADULT get together, neighbors called the cops on us
My father used to have this orange camaro, very American muscle car, while we lived in Germany. We dubbed it "The Beast" because of the god awful noise it would make when he went to drive it. I was too young to remember anything about it save that it was orange, camaro, muscle car, and it was loud as ****. The German neighbors used to give him dirty looks when he would take it out.
I have heard the same story from a cousin, friends, or strangers talking smack about bikes but in the end it was envy. They just could not afford one. lol My cousin would hate to no end about motorcycles on the road and how I am stupid for having a chopper. Five years later and he has a good job and he is obsessed with getting one. lmao Now I understand the hate for bikers that cut through lanes and do annoying stuff. That is not all riders, and I do hate those riders. I cruise on my bike with my ipod and yes have pulled many young ladies (possibly some of your woman in this very thread). Lucky I am married now and you guys don't have to worry about that anymore. Just on of my toys. Spoiler
Aw. Now I'm sad. Seems like you care well for your toys. It's a nice bike btw. I don't particularly have a problem with people having bikes, but I don't want people I love to have them. My father is a douchebag and after my parents divorced he HAD to have one. So I get a call one day and we're casually talking and he says, "Oh, you didn't know I was in an accident?" WTF! Apparently he had been drinking and slammed his bike into a brick wall beneath an overpass. His friends, who were coming to pick him up from his house, found him on the side of the road pushing his tore up bike, bleeding all over the place. Doctor said if he hadn't been wearing his helmet the damage would have slit his throat more, the straps saved his life. Instead of learning, he's got another one. At least he hasn't wrecked this one. Yet.
