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"loud pipes save lives".

I'm not even talking about loud pipes. I'm talking about sitting outside an ice cream parlor enjoying an ice cream with my family and having a bunch of fat baby boomer assholes hop on their bikes and blast me and my family with unnecessary loudness so they can feel cool. If bikers want people to respect them, they should offer respect to others.

35 posted on 04/07/2011 12:12:15 PM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)

I'm talking about sitting outside an ice cream parlor enjoying an ice cream with my family and having a bunch of fat baby boomer assholes hop on their bikes and blast me and my family with unnecessary loudness so they can feel cool.

Those people are dumb azzes first, riders second, IMHO.

If bikers want people to respect them, they should offer respect to others.

Agreed, but it's an uphill battle when people lump all of us riders together...

51 posted on 04/07/2011 1:28:40 PM PDT by piytar (Godwin's rule is null and void. If you don't know what I mean, you aren't paying attention...)

If bikers want people to respect them, they should offer respect to others.

You don't consider the "Organ Donor" epithet as showing a lack of respect? My son became an organ donor at age 16. He was a belted passenger in a Dodge Neon. He died of massive head injuries. Accident reconstruction by the state determined the crash speed was 19 mph.

Enjoy your ice cream; just don't turn left in front of me while you do it . . .

You really should attempt to differentiate between Harley riders, and the rest.

If you will observe, HD riders do not accept or acknowledge riders of other motorcycles, they are in a zone of their own.

I have NEVER seen a sportbike rip away from a populous spot, deliberately creating earsplitting noise.

Open highway, sure, BTTW is what the bike is about, but never to solely create a "look at me" moment in front of Starbucks............

I agree -- I prefer my bikes to be silent (like Hondas) or have a beautiful sound (like the lower Harleys or the Enfield Bullets). A lot of folks do consider the louder the sound, the cooler they are, however these are mostly guys who can't ride, can't take curlies (curling, winding mountain roads) and can't control their bikes.

While riding I prefer to use my blinker a lot, wear red or yellow so I'm visible and not do stupid things -- oh and if a car driver tries to race, I rev up to 120 and disappear over the horizon leaving him in the dust :0