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Fuck Motorcycles! (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Jun 2021 OP
Gas tank or tailpipe? BlueTsunami2018 Jun 2021 #1
+1! mitch96 Jun 2021 #8
Agreed! SheltieLover Jun 2021 #2
I hate the noisy ones. they go speeding up my street at all hours. IcyPeas Jun 2021 #3
Same here. Archae Jun 2021 #10
Awww, that seems harsh. It's the riders you should hate soothsayer Jun 2021 #4
In the fall, it's leaf blowers. Spring and summer it's bikes. Now that I am once again living in... TreasonousBastard Jun 2021 #5
Oh yeah, loud bikes are annoying. I'm sorry soothsayer Jun 2021 #6
Consider yourself lucky. GemDigger Jun 2021 #7
+1000 smirkymonkey Jun 2021 #9
Thanks for the bravery in posting this. If I had the courage to do it, would have been flamed. UTUSN Jun 2021 #11
The crotch rockets North Shore Chicago Jun 2021 #12
WTF? USALiberal Jun 2021 #13

Archae

(46,318 posts)
10. Same here.
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 12:24 AM
Jun 2021

Ever since that roundabout was put in on 40th St.

The hot-rodders are the worst, they sound like they are roaring right through my kitchen.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
5. In the fall, it's leaf blowers. Spring and summer it's bikes. Now that I am once again living in...
Sat Jun 12, 2021, 05:28 PM
Jun 2021

the middle of town, and this time on a sharp curve-- you know what that means with downshifts. And with exhaust dumps!

I still do not understand why a 1500cc Harley must sound a dozen or so decibels louder than my 1500cc car.


GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
7. Consider yourself lucky.
Sat Jun 12, 2021, 05:58 PM
Jun 2021

If you had my upstairs neighbors for neighbors, you wouldn't even hear the bikes. They vibrate everything in the apartment.

Now that I got that off my chest, I understand how you feel because I also regret moving into town. Damn, I miss the quiet.

UTUSN

(70,683 posts)
11. Thanks for the bravery in posting this. If I had the courage to do it, would have been flamed.
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 01:16 AM
Jun 2021

Yeah, moto (mostly) dudes are a breed unto themselves, are a breed unto themselves. And the physical demands are something else.

Well, different types - the roaring ones, the elderly tri-cycle ones.

* But I, as of the "helping" worklife saw at least three dudes in comas because of their cycle crashes and not wearing helmets. And afterwards at Happy Hours when cylclists came in, I would ask whether they wore helmets and they looked at me like PISS.

* Saw one at a surgeon's office, his leg shattered, laughing and telling everybody that he crashed BUT nothing happened to his BIKE! Great.

* Plus, yeah they ROAR in my residential zone and also sport signs about how the rest of us are supposed to look out FOR THEM.

********That said, one of my nostalgic gems is from the Navy when I was walking out from the base in my Whites, and a moto dude stopped and told me to get on, and then proceeded to ROAR away, and when he SOARED over some railroad tracks with me holding onto him, I yelled, "PUT. ME. DOWN." It's a FAVORITE memory of mine.







North Shore Chicago

(3,313 posts)
12. The crotch rockets
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 09:34 AM
Jun 2021

that insist on going in and out of Chicago toll ways at 100 plus MPH weaving in and out of traffic, driving on the shoulder piss me the right off!

At least the touring donorcycles look cooler but so damn loud! And how ironic the "Look for motorcycles" bumper stickers, you don't have to SEE them, you can HEAR them a county away.

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