A bunch of BMW stuffies were trying to attack loud pipes. I'm not a loud pipe guy, but I don't think they are killing our civilization either. So this is my rant:
So I think this quiet pipe thing is basically B.S. A part of a free society is minding your own @#$% business and letting the next guy mind theirs. I love it when people claim a loud bike going by is such a problem when we have F-18s hitting the afterburners all day and night!
First of all, if you ride a motorcycle you are fronting an image to the public. You are lying if you say you don't get an emotional chubby when you pull up next to a minivan and the Dad trapped in there looks over, admiring you for your declared freedom from the ordinary, safe, predictable, brutally boring world of civilization. And if you are a lady with pink plastered all over your bike it's no quieter than a loud exhaust. After all I'm assuming you know you're a girl, so you must feel like Ineed to know too, right?
I ride my ride. I go my speed, go where I want to go, and I ride what I want configured the way I want it. If the next guy rides something different, that's not a reflection on me or my choices. That's how freedom was supposed to work before we corrected it politically. I wave to every motorcyclist I pass because I respect them for stepping out from behind a metrosexual world intent on making everyone the same - men, women, Asian, Indians, Whites, Blacks, safe, boring, etc. Dictating freedom is killing our culture and the sport of motorcycling as well. So it sort of chaps me when we start dictating stuff ourselves. "Your loud pipes are reflecting badly on all of us". How many times have I heard that sort of stop being you and be like us crap on all sorts of things?
I don't have particularly loud pipes on any of my bikes. Neighbors often comment on how I quietly slip out of the neighborhood on morning rides. But open the Busa up and she howls like a wolf you can hear for miles, and it's a beautiful thing I feel in my soul. The BMW is quiet, and I am good with that. But I get noise. No there are no statistics validating loud pipes save lives, they are just a part of the emotional connection to the sport. On the other hand, you can plug your pipes with a cork, because it's your ride and your choice. But you only get to plug your pipes, that's how freedom works.
The internal combustion engine is a beautiful thing. It is one of man's greatest accomplishments, an accomplishment on which nearly all of western civilization is built. Gas, oil, metal and 16,000 explosions a minute is fascinating. Obviously we need to control pollution and greenhouse gasses, so we need new forms of motivation but in this sport, at this time, we burn stuff.
So yes this post is a bit tongue-in-cheek, just meant to poke fun at the exhaust nannies. "To each his own" I say because a little noise never hurt anyone.
So I think this quiet pipe thing is basically B.S. A part of a free society is minding your own @#$% business and letting the next guy mind theirs. I love it when people claim a loud bike going by is such a problem when we have F-18s hitting the afterburners all day and night!
First of all, if you ride a motorcycle you are fronting an image to the public. You are lying if you say you don't get an emotional chubby when you pull up next to a minivan and the Dad trapped in there looks over, admiring you for your declared freedom from the ordinary, safe, predictable, brutally boring world of civilization. And if you are a lady with pink plastered all over your bike it's no quieter than a loud exhaust. After all I'm assuming you know you're a girl, so you must feel like Ineed to know too, right?
I ride my ride. I go my speed, go where I want to go, and I ride what I want configured the way I want it. If the next guy rides something different, that's not a reflection on me or my choices. That's how freedom was supposed to work before we corrected it politically. I wave to every motorcyclist I pass because I respect them for stepping out from behind a metrosexual world intent on making everyone the same - men, women, Asian, Indians, Whites, Blacks, safe, boring, etc. Dictating freedom is killing our culture and the sport of motorcycling as well. So it sort of chaps me when we start dictating stuff ourselves. "Your loud pipes are reflecting badly on all of us". How many times have I heard that sort of stop being you and be like us crap on all sorts of things?
I don't have particularly loud pipes on any of my bikes. Neighbors often comment on how I quietly slip out of the neighborhood on morning rides. But open the Busa up and she howls like a wolf you can hear for miles, and it's a beautiful thing I feel in my soul. The BMW is quiet, and I am good with that. But I get noise. No there are no statistics validating loud pipes save lives, they are just a part of the emotional connection to the sport. On the other hand, you can plug your pipes with a cork, because it's your ride and your choice. But you only get to plug your pipes, that's how freedom works.
The internal combustion engine is a beautiful thing. It is one of man's greatest accomplishments, an accomplishment on which nearly all of western civilization is built. Gas, oil, metal and 16,000 explosions a minute is fascinating. Obviously we need to control pollution and greenhouse gasses, so we need new forms of motivation but in this sport, at this time, we burn stuff.
So yes this post is a bit tongue-in-cheek, just meant to poke fun at the exhaust nannies. "To each his own" I say because a little noise never hurt anyone.
