[ST] Anti-motorcycle rhetoric

["Allyoop" <allyoop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The guy's right about the noise level coming from the straight pipe
cruisers. Many are obnoxiously loud (so are the coffee can mufflers on a lot
of ricer Honda cars). I like the sound of a good running V-twin as much as
the next guy, but there's a limit. The biggest problem is that the noise and
irritation the noise causes for non-riders opens the way for overly-broad
proposals like "ban all motorcycles." Squids cause similar problems by
speeding, doing wheelies and generally freaking out the citizens. Then we
have to deal with ideas like limiting all bikes to 65 mph max, as recently
proposed in Great Britain. 

 

Here in Washington there was bill introduced this year to restrict the sound
level of offroad bikes and ORVs to "conversation level." A main sponsor
reeled off a list of times he'd been irritated by irresponsible motorcycle
and jetski users, from when his baby was in the crib and a neighbor let his
kids run dirt bikes up and down the alley to a time when jetski teenagers
nearly swamped his canoe, with him and his kids in it. He too could see no
value in ORVs. They pissed him off.

 

We can be our own worst enemies. Too much 'screw you' from a minority like
us riders, and we're liable to hear a much bigger "screw you back' from the
majority. I'm running the offroad can on my Sprint. I could put the stocker
back on and live with that just fine, if that's what it takes to keep me
riding.

 

Walt Greenwood

Everwett, Wash.

 

 

 

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