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Childish He-Man Noise
Member since Sep 29, 2008
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Re: “Motorcycles have become a nuisance in Charleston”
The current manufacture of Harley Davidson brand motorcycles since 2006 are all compliant to more stringent EPA noise regulations than the predecessors of only a few years ago. Among other changes, all the newest Harley Davidsons are fuel injected. This means they do not operate like the older models, especially the vintage and antique varieties. When these are shipped to the dealer, they are actually comparable in tone and volume to a passenger car. The first comment from the primal ape is "well that don't SOUND like a Harley!" First of all, it isn't a Harley. It is a Harley Davidson motorcycle. And the Harley Davidson which was just uncrated new from the factory sounds exactly like every other new Harley Davidson motorcycle. So it in fact must sound like a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Did you actually mean to say "that is not loud and obnoxious like I prefer to be, I cannot be noticed if I am not doing something to draw attention to myself." If that was what you meant, just say so. The new Harley Davidson motorcycle does not operate like a Knucklehead, Panhead, Shovelhead, or Evolution. It is a fuel injected Twin Cam engine. It does not run like those other motors without major and expensive modifications. Usually this is when they start crying. I HATE seeing grown people act like two year olds. They already bought it "but no one told them". Wake up mullet head, the eighties are over. If you wanted an antique, you should have bought an antique. Then there are the ones who don't want a good running engine. They just want some "pipes". Forget engine tuning or any of that nonsense, Besides, their not really going to ride it anyway. It will spend 75% of the time in the garage, 24% of the time on the trailer and one percent of the time at Daytona or Sturgis on the street in stopped traffic for bike week. And this folks if you didn't know is what the image is. What it takes to be cool. Now you can put some straight open exhaust or "drag pipes" on your $30,000 dollar Harley Davidson motorcycle, so it can cough, spit, sputter, hesitate, and backfire. Then you to can be cool. Or so they all seem to think. The chopper craze has nearly faded to black. Overpriced, uncomfortable attention getters. These were just rich man's art from the word go. Impractical. Loud and obnoxious usually from day one. Sport bikes are the cheaper toy. Why does someone need enough power to go 200+ miles per hour on two wheels. That should be a red flag without looking at them any closer. So it comes back mostly to the "harley" owners. Loud pipes don't save lives dummy. The sound is behind you and the car pulling out is in front of you. That unpadded unapproved brain bucket you are wearing to fool the cops now makes you the fool.