Loud car exhausts (and a general rant about boy racers).

[screenman]

I've noticed exactly the same with phones and people, too.

Funny, I thought the same but with bikes.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

All cars, trucks, motorbikes should be limited to 50 dB. Absolutely no need for noise pollution.

 

[Drago]

Unfortunately, a car rolling along the road with its engine off makes more than 50dB in tyre noise.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Consider it a technology challenge

 

[Levo-Lon]

I may have had a few race cans on my bikes..the Boss cans on my SP2 were wonderful.

agree on the triumph triple..fantastic sound..i owned a sprint st but the best sound was a new Street 675..bloody intoxcating sound..i nearly bought it after the hr test ride..but had a gsxr1000k1 which i liked more

 

[RichardB]

All cars, trucks, motorbikes should be limited to 50 dB. Absolutely no need for noise pollution.

Agreed, anything that makes less than 50dB doesn't deserve to be on the road.

Massive in case of misunderstanding.

 

[Piemaster]

If 50dB annoys you you'd better turn off your fridge. And have people stop talking to you, according to this

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

50 dB was a figure plucked from the air but surely to goodness we can make the average car quieter and certainly cut down the noise of the ridiculous baked bean tin exhausts?

I'll admit noise bothers me which is why I've spent the happiest years of my life in the country.

 

[RichardB]

I'll admit that I am a lover of quiet too. When I am on the bike and passed by a car, I find the noise intrusive. But the noise is mainly tyres, engine and some air disturbance. With the vast majority of cars, the exhaust hardly features. What bothers me is not the odd noisy exhaust (cars and motorbikes) which is usually transitory, but the sheer volume of noise caused by heavy traffic, which lasts all day and some of the night and is relentless. No easy solution to that, until we re-think our entire transport strategy.

 

[Piemaster]

All depends on personal tolerance and I'd put myself in a 'very tolerant' category. I'm sat on a ship now and it's eerily quiet (to me) as there's not much machinery running - a generator and a few other bits and pieces. You'd probably find even the air from the vent above my head for air conditioning noisy. I don't sleep well for the first couple of nights at home as its too quiet - it usually means somethings wrong when at work. The nature of it has an effect too - I can tune out the generator but at home the cat deciding to pace about the bedroom drives me insane

 

[swee'pea99]

Has anyone mentioned bumper stickers? You don't see them anymore, but they were around for a few years. Both my favourites were on Porsches. One was: My other car is a Porsche. T'other: The one who's got most toys when he dies wins.

 

[RichardB]

I used to have one on the back of my Mondeo, reading "My other car is a motorcycle". Still looking for one with 'bicycle'.