Massive difference between a reversing beeper and the racket these manbabies make, which carry for miles day or night.
Lots more bikers are killed by riding like arses, riding way beyond their capabilities. Presumably in your philosophy you would ban those sorts too?
True, but the thrust of my argument was really that noise alerts others to your presence, like when lane splitting. It seems to work for emergency vehicles after all. They obviously have legitimate reason for their racket. My real point was, to say that loud exhaust doesn’t make a difference when lane splitting is questionable.
My experience is that when I am sat in my sound-insulated Civic with the windows up and some gangsta-rap on the speakers, you don’t hear bikes coming up behind you, you only see them. You would at least have to point the exhaust forwards in order to project the noise in front.
I agree, bikes are not heard inside my car until they are alongside, which is far too late to make a difference to awareness. I imagine that is always the case for 90% of cars, all buses, HGV's & vans.
"""If you have small penises mind, then feel free to continue to fit loud cans and attract attention. Maybe a new power ranger suit would help you too, say a nice dayglo colour?""" Bit of a condescending twat are you??
for me its all about the slow creep of more and more control and being under 'observation' if they can monitor noise levels they can listen to speech, if not at the start, for sure once it becomes the norm.. after living in China for 2021 and realising how much data is collected on each person, its something we should be very cautious with
in some regards it maybe to late, but I believe that the information is still siloed... otherwise this would be in place already etc..
Also the spacing. I got picked up by a camera in Gloucestershire and sent a fine for a small plate on my car with full sized characters but spaced slightly differently (I know, I know). They said the spacing had to be preserved for ANPR - oh the irony, it was an automatically generated ticket! Luckily, I was able to send them a picture of the correct plates and they waived it.
Like many posters here, I take it easy in towns and villages and save the revs for the open road (but even then, can't remember the last time I hit the limiter on the road). Trouble is, everywhere I go in Surrey, West Sussex and Hants I see new housing developments going up in rural areas and speed limits coming down, urbanising our countryside. Too many people, yes, but why so many houses and lack of infrastructure etc.. And don't get me started on the electric debate...!!!
If they build new housing in the countryside will there be enough jobs for the new residents, or will they end up commuting and adding to congestion, and both chemical and noise pollution? I wonder if these decisions are made by the same people who erect, but seem oblivious to the irony in, the signs that say “frustration causes accidents”.
Like most developments, there’s no profit in infrastructure, public services or transport network and so it gets ignored, they don’t even allow for off road parking but they will provide a bicycle shed, so that’s ok
