Noisy, noisy, noisy exhausts!

Edrof · 23 Apr 2011 at 19:28

Hello Bikers, please don't hit me

Now the weather has turned nice a seasonal plague has returned to my pleasant shores: that of massively noisy bikes. Let me first say that I'm not against bikers at all and wouldn't mind owning one in future and I understand that sometimes the whole point of owning a bike is for the feel and sound of the gravelly engine, but some that regularly go past my home are massively, massively loud. There is a quad bike in particular that really takes the biscuit. I can't really describe what its like other than to say that it shakes the house and makes me shout naughty words (not that anyone hears them over the racket!). It's like Concord roaring past at 200ft. It's lovely at 4am, too. Anyway...

How can they not think of the kids and babies they distress as they thunder past?
Have they modified their exhausts to get them this loud?
Most importantly: what's the law on this? Do you guys thinks it's worth me getting some number plates and reporting them to the police?

Just to be clear: this thread is about the loudest ones, not your everyday bike. Thanks for reading.

Matt

Danm54 · 23 Apr 2011 at 19:40

Wear a helmet and ear plugs, not so loud then!!

Seriously though, I know what you mean, there's a lad around here thats always blatting about on a little 50cc thing that you can hear half a mile away. Just seems the police only stop and chack bikes outside towns (where most of them are) so dont see/hear the nuisance ones.

duc999 · 23 Apr 2011 at 19:46

Hope you post the same message in the car forum then ?

Edrof · 23 Apr 2011 at 19:49

duc999 said:
Hope you post the same message in the car forum then ?

I was considering it but thought the mods would clean it away. Anyway, I'd say about 90% of the noisy ones here are bikes and certainly the worst offenders are bikes. Like I said above, this isn't about bike-hatred

duc999 · 23 Apr 2011 at 19:56

I understand that and wasn't having a go , just that there are as many inconsiderate car owners as bikers

OpenToSuggestions · 23 Apr 2011 at 19:58

duc999 said:
Hope you post the same message in the car forum then ?

Car engines don't do 15,000 rpm. I am not saying that a chav red lining a de-cat Saxo with a sports exhaust isn't annoying and antisociably loud, but bikes are far louder.

duc999 · 23 Apr 2011 at 20:06

I take it you havent heard a scooby having the **** revved off it then ?

Louder than any bike exhaust I have ever heard ?

I will agree that some bikes can be loud but if its noise and anti social behaviour we are talking about then cars can be just as bad.

helpimcrap · 23 Apr 2011 at 20:11

if its mega loud then it might be an aprilia.

mine was DEAFENING! lol

mate says he could hear me before i got within a mile of he town and he'd have the kettle boiled by the time i'd sopped lol.

ear plugs are a definite! lol

PieEater · 23 Apr 2011 at 22:03

Forde said:
How can they not think of the kids and babies they distress as they thunder past?

They don't - It actually upsets me to see young kids cover their ears as they see me approaching because they expect their ears to be blasted. It is inconsiderate and it's not doing bikers any favours.

Forde said:
Have they modified their exhausts to get them this loud?

Yes either by removing the baffles which make the silencers legal or by replacing the original legal exhausts with illegal ones.

Forde said:
Most importantly: what's the law on this? Do you guys thinks it's worth me getting some number plates and reporting them to the police?

If the noise is loud enough to cause you a problem then it is being made by a vheicle with an illegal exhaust. However if you expect the police to do anything about it - good luck with that.

jon.bda · 23 Apr 2011 at 22:20

Be it a bike or a car, they are past you and gone in a few seconds...i find the constant droning of a neighbours petrol lawnmower more annoying...

4T5 · 23 Apr 2011 at 22:41

I like my loud exhaust it keeps me alive & wakes car drivers up.

Danm54 · 23 Apr 2011 at 23:58

4T5 said:
I like my loud exhaust it keeps me alive & wakes car drivers up.

They are very good for startling cage drivers!!

I reckon my turbo project will wake a few up.....

bloodiedathame · 24 Apr 2011 at 00:40

Forde said:
How can they not think of the kids and babies they distress as they thunder past?

Kids love bikes!

Ghosteh · 24 Apr 2011 at 00:53

Loud cans save lives

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Although, I do hate them on quads, they're stupidly loud, and most of the people on the road with them deserve to be run over

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Kenai · 24 Apr 2011 at 00:57

duc999 said:
Hope you post the same message in the car forum then ?

Straight on the defensive there... do you have a loud exhaust on your bike perchance?

Clarkey · 24 Apr 2011 at 01:50

Report them, hopefully they will get a Section 59 for it. Takes the **** really riding with a mega loud pipe in the middle of the night through residential streets.

metamorphpwner · 24 Apr 2011 at 07:35

Clarkey said:
Report them, hopefully they will get a Section 59 for it. Takes the **** really riding with a mega loud pipe in the middle of the night through residential streets.

i agree, i think they should have to push their bike home from work so that you get a good nights sleep.

MouseMat2004 · 24 Apr 2011 at 09:30

Anything fast has the god given right to be loud. Thanks for looking, topic closed

Ryan-3 · 24 Apr 2011 at 09:35

Forde said:
this isn't about bike-hatred

Not yet

But theres a biker live a few streets from me, and the awful racket his bike makes, its just annoying!

& I agree on the lawn mowers, so annoying when the guy pushing its 81 and it takes about 4 hours to do his lawn :mad:

Muel · 24 Apr 2011 at 09:35

Depends what you call loud really. I like a nice loud can, but some of the cans available now are stupid, mainly those little tiny stubby GP style ones that people then fit to big sports bikes that were loud to start with. They're deafening on tickover, so when they're being thrashed it's just insane how loud they are.