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Please no fighting.
I was reading a few articles on motorcycle safety and one was something about 10 myths of motorcycle safety. And one of the ten points was that loud exhaust do not save lives, they said it was a myth and left it at that with no data to back up the definitive statement!
Well, a one time opponent of loud exhausts and still not particularly keen on them, my own observation, several times I have begun a lane change only to realize, by the exhaust noise, that a motorcycle had been stupidly sitting in my blind spot. Would I have hit the motorcycle, no, because I also always look. But, in another day and time and place it could indeed be the critical piece of the chain that once broken stops the event.
Everything that happens is a chain of events that bring each of us to some place in time and place. As annoying as the group pf Harley riders (or it could easily have been sport bikers) that ruined the quiet sunset in Yellowstone for us with all the loud exhaust, maybe they do not need to be that loud, but we certainly noticed them if that was the intention. But for an article to just blather out that loud pipes do not save lives and it is a myth, what evidence do they have to back that up?
3C
I was reading a few articles on motorcycle safety and one was something about 10 myths of motorcycle safety. And one of the ten points was that loud exhaust do not save lives, they said it was a myth and left it at that with no data to back up the definitive statement!
Well, a one time opponent of loud exhausts and still not particularly keen on them, my own observation, several times I have begun a lane change only to realize, by the exhaust noise, that a motorcycle had been stupidly sitting in my blind spot. Would I have hit the motorcycle, no, because I also always look. But, in another day and time and place it could indeed be the critical piece of the chain that once broken stops the event.
Everything that happens is a chain of events that bring each of us to some place in time and place. As annoying as the group pf Harley riders (or it could easily have been sport bikers) that ruined the quiet sunset in Yellowstone for us with all the loud exhaust, maybe they do not need to be that loud, but we certainly noticed them if that was the intention. But for an article to just blather out that loud pipes do not save lives and it is a myth, what evidence do they have to back that up?
3C