That's the true definition of arrogance. I have explained to you in detail my attraction loud pipes, yet you insist on projection other motives on to me. Perhaps you should take more bikers on their word instead of claiming to understand us better than we understand ourselves?
“Perhaps you should take more bikers on their word instead of claiming to understand us better than we understand ourselves?”
So you have data to prove that loud bikes have lower death rates by car T-boning than other bikes?
I read an amusing book that my son insisted I read. It was called “Company” by Max Berry.
In that book it was relayed that there was an experiment with Monkeys - they would feed them - and then every now and then they would offer them a banana through the cage - if one of them took it, the whole cage of monkeys got an electric shock. THen they started adding new monkeys and taking old ones out. Whenever the new monkey would reach for the banana - the rest of the monkeys would beat the crap out of him to avoid getting a shock.
Soon all the old monkeys were gone, and it was all new monkeys - the new population had never experienced the shock - still whenever a new monkey reached for a banana the rest of them beat the crap out of him - not knowing why - because “that’s the way things have always been done around here”
I submit that guys buy Harleys and give ‘em loud pipes, not because there is any practical reason, but because “that’s the way things have always been done around here” and they just want to fit in with the rest of the monkeys.