Why do you need to rev it early in the morning for 5 minutes waking up the neighborhood?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhsbfQTPDQ
funny because true.
I am looking to get into motorcycles and know nothing about them. I want a work horse to travel through the south american continent. I was under the impression that Harley was considered great for that purpose, I guess their propaganda worked on me. Can someone enlighten me on models or places to learn what I want?
I’m not an expert, but anyone I’ve ever seen doing transcontinental rides has some kind of ‘touring’ bike. BMW is a pretty common brand.
Carbureted or not, it certainly helps if either the manufacturer or the owner doesn’t put on a super loud exhaust, I own a bike with a relatively quiet exhaust to the point I’ve gotten multiple offers from family and relatives to have it swapped to a louder exhaust, and they don’t understand when I tell them I absolutely despise that shit
They are stupid and they think that if they like the noise everyone else likes it
or
They are stupid and they think no one else can hear it.
To sum up: they are stupid.
An arroyo runs through my neighborhood (dry river bed). The kids ride their dirt bikes through it. I noticed a couple of years ago a few kids had electric versions. They’re very quiet, and the kids have just as much fun, it seems. I was happy to see that.
We still have the small-dicks who rev their cars, trucks, and bikes on their way to work every morning, though. Probably the same fools who set off near-professional grade fireworks every night for several days around the 4th of July. It used to be only on the 4th, but now it spreads across a week, plus New Years, and Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
Can’t wait for genetic modification that gives every male the same size dick.
Because they’re selfish, thoughtless arseholes.
They’re assholes.
Been riding in a European city with a bike that can go from 2k to 12k rpm. Of course in resident areas I kept it so low to be indistinguishable from the cars around me.
Carbureted bikes may need a little time to warm up in order to hold idle without dying. A clean and tune should fix that, but that’s effort the owner may not be in a position to make for whatever reason.
However, all you need to do is hold the throttle at, say, 1500 RPM instead of 1000. Enough to not die. Adding a cheap throttle lock makes it so you don’t even have to stand there while it warms up.
There is zero reason to rev a bike in neutral, at any time, besides dick swinging.
My bike used to die if I idled at stop lights for too long before I worked in the carb a bit. So if I felt the engine slowing, I would blip the throttle to keep it running. But this was purely utilitarian, and my bike isn’t a loud one
I differentiate between blip and rev.
Im so glad my new bike has fuel injection. I can ride immediately after start. Hated carb bikes, their chokes and all that gunk that accumulates in there.
Oh I love me some carburetors, but yeah, FI on a daily driver is wonderful.
South Park has a perfect answer for you…
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I seem to remember South Park having a word for inconsiderate people like this, but I can’t remember what it was…
Small dicked babys
EV motorcycles exist. Zero reason to ride a gas one in a neighborhood.
Used motorcycle market is something like 95% ICE bikes. A new motorcycle with comparable stats costs new from 10-30k€
Meanwhile used ICEs go from 2-10k. Guess which one I could afford.
Pretty sure in Australia they might be too powerful for learners
Its not their fault. They were just born with excessively small genitals.
I dated a person with a micropenis and she did not behave like that.
Maybe it’s a man thing?
I know too many cisgenderd AFABs that do it to think it’s just a man thing.
I also know a couple guys with small ones and they also for the most part aren’t like that either, so it’s definitely not size.
Proposed consensus: maybe they’re just assholes?
Blaming deuterosomy, bold but I like it
Electric cars and trucks will reduce a lot of noise pollution, but electric motorcycles will take us from quieter to eerily quiet… Can’t happen soon enough.
No fucking chance. Motorbrains will never abandon their custom exhausts. For them riding a bike without annoying everyone around doesn’t make any sense. Why bother if no one is looking at you?
I would take a motorcycle revving over the noise some EVs make. Holy shit it is the most annoying sound I’ve ever heard and I’m terrified of a world where all cars sound like that.
Switching from mopeds to electric bikes has made such a tremendous difference already
Being from the home state of Harley Davidson, more sympathetic I could not be. I hate it lol. They have giant rallies here all the time, back some years ago there was some big anniversary and the whole city was literally filled with them. It was kinda cool but loud as hell. I had a lot of thoughts about how the thought of freedom became intertwined with the freedom of mobility and for a while the motorcycle was sold as the ultimate symbol of freedom in stuff like Easy Rider, it went from hippies into bikers and addicted a generation to leather and gasoline. They did a hell of a job with it.
The thing is, motorbikes do give the ultimate in freedom … check out C90Adventures or Itchyboots on youtube, they’ve travelled the world in a free manner that wouldn’t be possible by other means.
I have several motorbikes, the ones I use outside of competition are very quiet. They give me freedom.
I am thinking of getting a bike and exploring the south american continent but I know nothing about bikes. Where do I begin looking? Recommend me shows, yt channels, books and bike models please!!
Yeah, there are cool bikes of all sorts for sure, I would like to try sometimes. I was just saying the particular bike (harleys, choppers, big loud things) and lifestyle that was sold as freedom was anything but, those bikes cost as much as a car now.
Yes, and Harleys are big and heavy which severely limits their freedom to paved roads and only maybe the most gentle of unpaved tracks.
So, freedom was available all along, but not from those trying to market it as a capitalist lifestyle
