I can understand the argument. However, I think they should have similar laws for bikes and vehicles--impose a dB level restriction, and make it pretty high, and let bikes be louder. But for cars, bikes or whatever it may be, if an idiot wants to run open headers at 2AM near my house on Tuesday morning, I'll want to shoot him, and it would be better if the cops would end it instead.

 

I find it annoying when I'm stopped at a red light and a Harley, or 2, pull up next to me and continue to rev their bikes awaiting the light to turn green.

 

I don't want to play devils advocate and this may not be the case but I know the carburated bikes (like softails and sportsters) when they're cold need to be revved a bunch after the start so they don't stall.

 

What I find annoying is being behind some clown with a 3" turbo back exhaust with no cats and a supercharger or turbo. Not only is it way too loud but the smell makes me puke. Why are they so special that they get to pull mandated vehicle emission systems off their car and pollute 10 times more than me?

We need a new law.

 

I actually like bikes...not so much Harleys...more the crotch rockets (yeah, yeah...), but there are assholes out there that ride them. the other week some kid drove down the street on his bike...sounded like a damn F1 car. loudest bike i've ever heard...i dont know what he did to it. awesome if it was an F1 car...annoying when it's some teenager riding his bike through someone's neighborhood.

 

We need to enforce the laws that we have.

I own a Fatboy with the stock pipes and a carburator. I do not rev the engine. There is a choke/enrichment knob for that.



However, if you are going to be critical of all Harley owners, you also have to be critical of crotch rocket owners (the all do wheelies on a major road), ricers, (they all put $300 worth of crap on the car to make is sound like a race car, and then it usually falls off right in front of me when they pass during a street race), truck owners (the all have the lift kit which kills other drivers in an accident, not to mention the loud exhaust and reckless driving in the snow or rain), and yes, S2000 owners (they all think that they have a Porche on a Miata budget and spin out on "dead man's curve" because they think that they have the only car that can magically do a 9G skidpad).

You see, it is not that Harley attracts dirtbags, they just attract a certain type of dirtbag, just like every other vehicle on the road will attract a certain type of dirtbag. I don't mind being critical of dirtbags, but blaming the bike is like blaming guns when a someone kills their spouse, or blaming McDonald's because your kid with every game system you could buy him is too fat.

Running straight pipes on a Harley is about as intelligent as putting swamp tires on the S2000, and most Harley riders know this. Don't paint us all with the same brush based on the ignorace of a few.

 

Every group has its douchebags. Around here it's the croch rockets. The cruiser bikes around here may be loud but they are usually respectful of everyone else out there. The sport bikes are always swerving though tight traffic and going between cars at redlights to get to the front. They piss me off. And EVERY damn one of them want to park on the F*&KING sidewalk. My car will fit on the sidewalk but you don't see me parking there. WTF is up with that? I never see a cruiser bike on a sidewalk unless its a bike night thing.

 

Choppers are ridiculous!

 

Agreed (I think I know that guy!) That is why most states have laws against dangerous modifications like that.

But again, Harley owners are not the only ones that do stupid things to perfectly good machines.