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From: CrazyCam on 9 Apr 2010 03:24 Albm&ctd wrote: > You don't fucki*g get it do you. I think it's you have lost the plot. The rest of us are discussing the benefits or otherwise of having loud exhaust pipes. > The ultimate aim is not just to ban load pipes > but to make all aftermarket pipes illegal so you have to be running approved > manufacturers pipes. FFS WAKE UP!! I think pretty well everyone here in aus.moto knows this. Some of us are even awake, at times, on a good day with a following wind. Viewed in the context of most states in Oz would happily ban motorbikes altogether, if they thought they could get away with it, I personally, can't see having noisy, non standard exhausts is something worth going to the barricades over. YMMV. regards, CrazyCam
From: Zebee Johnstone on 9 Apr 2010 03:26 In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:31:20 +1000 CrazyCam <CrazyCam(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Over the years I have experimented with a variety of methods of getting > car drivers to actually notice me, on a motorbike. I am reliably informed that a little red cocktail dress and high heels do a good job. Zebee - looking very innocent
From: Nev.. on 9 Apr 2010 03:40 On 9/04/2010 12:09 AM, atec7 7 > wrote: > Noisy pipes can save lives > did you notice todays in the news was some bloke who didn't see xing > lights and got hit by a train ? > I don't like loud bikes either but a louder train might have been heard LOL A louder train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA Loud trains save lives. WTF77 strikes again Nev..
From: BT Humble on 9 Apr 2010 03:44 Zebee Johnstone wrote: > You won't make someone think you are worth preserving by being an > arsehole to them. > > And if you think "well, if I pretend to be a bad person they will be > scared of me, and that's good enough" then you are definitely > suffering a false sense of security. I always wondered why the car drivers in "Mad Max" didn't just do a little swerving when surrounded by Toecutter's gang... BTH -- Posted at www.usenet.com.au
From: Nev.. on 9 Apr 2010 03:45
On 9/04/2010 9:13 AM, thefathippy wrote: > Of course, my response is only based on anecdotal evidence, however, I > have noticed that car drivers have seemed more aware of me when I'm on > a loud bike than when I'm on a quiet bike (my current bikes have > standard exhausts). I've always put it down to what I call the "bikie > phenomenon". From your anecdotal evidence, which bikes did you have loud pipes on and which did/do you have quiet pipes on? Nev.. '08 DL1000K8 - Stock pipes, but equipped with 139dB airhorns which make plenty of noise on demand. |