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Mordor, basically.

sometimes you get a rowdy hooligan who is just like, a lovable himbo and they're chill but you gotta bully em to put mufflers on their shit a lot lol

Mentally they never went beyond high school days.

When I was walking to the train one day, this guy in the loudest most tryhard car I've ever seen drove by me and it scared me really ad case they were going way too fast. A few minutes later the same car drove by me a second fucking time. They looped the area just so they could mess with me twice.

Just like those jerks that “roll coal” and spew black smoke out of their trucks

this is true for people who go out of their way to make their cars loud, but for motorbikes it's not really our fault (at least not always, a lot of riders are still dickheads because fast bikes attract them like moths)

not all of us are psychopaths, I blast a slightly louder apology on loop when I'm riding my obscenely loud hog monster

I understand this as a bystander but as a driver i love loud motorcycles because it makes it easier to hear them coming on the road

Oh I thought it was to compensate for their tiny dicks

it makes perfect sense now that in every postapocalyptic movie these are the people who become raiders

Loud motorcycles specifically are for safety. It is a way of making sure the cars are aware you exist so they don't merge into you.

Moved to a small town about 6 months ago Mfers love to act like their the toughest mf around (a vape store employee bragged about his manager threatening to shoot someone to me) and correlate toughness with making other people complain and ignoring it It's basically another facet of patriarchy

No offense but that just moves the anti social behavior to the point of purchase rather than when they're on the road. If there's no way to drive the thing without making everyone else have a bad time then they shouldn't drive it at all

Idk where on a decibel chart the line between inconsiderate asshole and "hey, I'm in this lane please don't run me over" lies, but I can say that it exists.

this is a common justification, but it isn't true. places have put laws in without more motorcycles being hit, there've been lots of studies. this should match your intuition that safe defensive driving is about anticipating hazards like bad driving and drivers' mistakes, not being noticed.

I wish this didn't rely on a short version of the dark tetrad with silly labels but I would bet you get corroborative results with high levels of rigor on this one

Don't forget he also drank a sixer of Mich Ultra before getting on the bike to go get lunch

If being loud was about rider safety, the pipes would be pointed forward

Gee why am I not surprised?! 🫠🫠🫠

Beware: Not everyone drives a loud vehicle for this reason! Sometimes the loud noises are because the vehicle needs a repair which is too expensive to afford!

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedin....

Driving behind a suped up car with an engine that's crackling and popping impotently behind a Honda Civic going two miles below the speed limit is very funny. Not sure if it's relevant.

Tbh I don't think we needed a study to know those kinds of people do it just cause they like to make people suffer.

nope, I walk everywhere or take a bus

This 100% lines up with my lived experience bsky.app/profile/dish...

One of the slip connectors in my car's exhaust came loose recently so I had to drive around for a couple days with a unmuffled engine before I could get it up on jacks and fix it and I felt like the biggest asshole in the world. I cannot imagine making my car sound like that on purpose.

case in point, "rolling coal" or what the fuck ever

I think bright yellow, orange, and red are recommended

I’ve added to the profile of my bike with some evidence based placement of extra head/tail lights and have taken an advanced course yes. I also ride it like as if I were in a mini van. No risks, ever. No adrenaline junkie in me. I just want to ride and ride safely. A silent bike is more dangerous.

Seems like an apt time to share this song.

Its a common mistake of not understanding the doppler effect. People think being louder makes it so people ahead of you know youre there, but thats just not how it really works

Yep. I don’t need a helmet if my bike is loud enough!

in grade school that happened and my teacher told me hes okay bc he had a helmet which im only realizing now he was not my family was blunt when our dog died so this random biker was my "went to live on a ranch" moment

I was studying for my M class but decided against it…with help from my wife. I live in Chicago and I just don’t trust the drivers enough. If I had quick access to quiet country roads or less populated areas then I would absolutely have a bike.

I'm not some gearhead or mechanical engineer, but even as a kid my reaction to the sound of a Harley has always been a pained, "oof, that sounds like a machine that's been miscalibrated; like the engine is sick and needs to have a lie-down!"

I give motorcycles a partial pass (depending on loud vs fully obnoxious) because they also have the issue of needing folks in cars to notice them