• iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    this is one very efficient litmus paper for identifying assholes

    “let me ear rape a thousand pedestrians today and not feel a single drop of shame about it”

  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    59·
    4 days ago

    This is honestly an entirely valid complaint. There are way too many motorcyclists who replace their mufflers with aftermarket ones that are illegally loud, in some cases loud enough to cause hearing damage to pedestrians.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I have a performance exhaust on my bike. It comes with a decibel reducer which I keep on for daily use, and remove for road trips. Making noise in urban areas is a 100% dick move.

      As a friend likes to say: " Look! there goes a son of a bitch riding a noise"

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      They just need to keep defect ticket histories.

      Third strike for the same defect on the same vehicle, you lose it. Fuck this ‘keeping a stock spare and swapping it in’ shit.

      • LaserEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

        Why so soft?

        The vehicle seems to loud -> perform a check -> if it is too loud, confiscate to have it examined and fine the driver -> if vehicle is found to have been tampered with using illegal parts, don’t return it and fine some more

        Then bring it back into a legal state and auction it off anonymously

  • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Used to ride before arthritis took it. Fuck loud pipes, they don’t help you enough to justify the social burden if they ever help you at all.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I don’t ride either anymore, but it’s not that hard to just cover the horn while you’re around more dicey situations. I loved my CBR500 because it actually sounded like a car horn.

  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    I once wanted a Harley. The name was synonymous with manliness and freedom.

    Now I see that they only have the image of manliness, and the owners are people who need to be assured that they are manly.

    If I ride again, I’m getting an electric bike.

  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Meh, this is our life on Enmore Rd in Sydney on Friday and Saturdays nights until the early morning. Not sure if it’s already been designated an entertainment precinct but it’s meant to be. For some reason that attracts people with loud cars and bikes.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    Permitted noise should be inversely proportional to vehicle size (and legally, it kinda is). Too many idiots on the road that can’t see over their own bonnet.

    Also, get off reddit. Especially that shithole of a sub. It’s probably full of drongos who take 2.5 tonne utes into school dropoff zones.

  • daveoss@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Same with all those stupid crackle tunes. I done see how it is compliant to ADR rules as they prescribe total noise limits ar certain RPM.