You don’t know the motorcycle I was riding, but it had pipes on both sides of the bike. The driver told me that she heard thee pipes and that kept her from changing lanes, which would have had an ill effect on me.
In another instance, dropping a gear and dumping the clutch got the attention of a driver who was starting to pull out in front of me making a left turn across my path of travel. He stopped, no impact.
Neither of those instances were in a residential area.
I am skilled enough to shift up and lug the engine a little which quiets the exhaust noise in residential areas—I have neighbors, too.
Sorry you have had a bad experience, but I would rather take a chance on inconveniencing someone than getting run down or cut in front of.
When those in cars pay more attention, maybe i will consider something quieter, but I’m not holding my breath for that to happen, and I have been riding motorcycles for just shy of 50 years.
I once had some jackass pull out in front of me on a Harley. His loud pipes did nothing to make the situation any better and in fact probably made it worse since the bike only SOUNDED like it was accelerating at a decent rate.
I had to change lanes to avoid him. Would’ve done that the second I saw him but the left lane was occupied by another driver who sped the hell up as soon as he saw Mr. Loud Pipes enter the highway without looking.
Also, where I used to live, I had a neighbor who usually came home at about 10:30PM revving the crap out of his loud-pipe equipped Harley.
I guess he was making sure that nobody pulled out in front of him (note that’s a townhouse neighborhood, with a combination of on-street parking and driveways that are 20 feet long, and roads with a 15MPH speed limit).
Or maybe it just won’t idle without being revved up like that.
One day I confronted him about it and told him to have some respect for his neighbors. You know how you can tell some people are as dumb as a box of rocks the moment you interact with them? This was one of those people.
He seemed incapable of understanding why anyone might have an issue with him revving the crap out of his bike at 10:30PM.
I’m not sure who would employ someone of that level of intellect at a pay rate high enough to afford a Harley, but we do have a lot of government employment around here...
Just one of many reasons I no longer live there.