Comments on: Arnold Schwarzenegger is AMA Motorcyclist of the Year (News)

By: Zombo

Zombo — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:49:23 +0000

Exactly right ! South Park season 13 episode 12 on the imdb website says all anyone needs to know about the reason for this legislation .

By: bill

bill — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:18:41 +0000

Steve, you ramble like any other loud idiot. It is not about Harleys, it is about that in-your-face noise that you subject bystanders too.

Same as the morons with the boom box stereos that rattle the neighborhood. Nobody gives a rats@ss what kind of stereo it is.

Half the time you don’t even see the bike, so how could there be a bias against anything but the noise.

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By: Drew Kazee

Drew Kazee — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:57:12 +0000

Most every rider like some tone from their bike, as I do. But a lot of riders simply have no respect for others or their neighbors. This is what brings on regulation. Put a muffler on, quit running straights, you are not impressing anyone. Show a little common sense when riding in populated areas.

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By: bill

bill — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:46:58 +0000

Sorry Steve. Not that anyone is reading these comments anymore, but this is about the V twin crowd. Plain and simple.

This law is aimed directly at you fella. Get your head out of the sand (and your @ss) and fess up to it.

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By: bill

bill — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:20:48 +0000

He is correct. Low frequencies penetrate more than higher frequencies. Scientific fact.

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By: mr_dirtrider

mr_dirtrider — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0000

Actually, I am an electrical engineer with a BSEE. My analogy is based on fact. Why do you think you hear boom boxes a mile away and not treble. Look it up, educate yourself you moron.

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By: steve

steve — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:34:19 +0000

you do understand that the “loud pipe fools” you are talking about & directing this at are probably not AMA members, right??
Don’t know where you live Bill, but it must be somewhere that has already banned 4 cyl sportbikes with loud exhausts since you don’t mention how annoying it is when you hear/see some rider wringing the throttle to the upper rev range while sitting on his 4cyl sportbike in some parking lot…. as you hear the bike breaking up in the higher range..
or you hear a squadron of sportbikes, all with aftermarket systems (loud exhaust) trying to break the sound barrier on the local interstate 2 miles away!
Glad there aren’t any of those type riders where you live Bill…

Guess you also don’t realize that you are singling out 1 brand bike & the person who rides it. That’s fine Bill… cause there are millions more of us than you there always will be. By the way, all my friends have stock systems…. but it doesn’t sound like that’ll make you or a lot of the others who posted here happy. Face it Bill… you are biased against H-D & the people who ride them… just like a lot of the others below…
I have no problem with that other than you & the others can’t admit the truth… you hide behind the computer screen & the loud pipe issue… all tough!
Did you notice no one else besides me mentions the shrill sound of a badly tuned 4 cyl sportbike revved to redline sitting still? & you’re going to tell me you never heard that?
I love sportbikes & love to go to Superbike races… I don’t ride one because I’m a little older & I honestly like my tractor-like- HD… it does what I want it to do. But you & many of the others below are basically complaining about Harleys & their riders. Why not grow a set & call it what it is! BUT IT AIN’T ABOUT LOUD PIPES!

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By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:29:22 +0000

Well the good thing is no other states really look to California for leadership and ground breaking legislation… That being said I am sure there are some BOOBs in other states that will try to get this passed as well. BUT as a motorcyclist I will say it is our own fault for not voting ENOUGH and for riding bikes of all makes with pipes that are too #%$*&@! loud. We need to clean up our act before a government of non-riding BOOBs does it for us. You can keep tooting your stupid “Loud pipes save lives” horn right back into your garage where the new government is going to make you keep your NON-Stock bike. Wake up fools they will take our ability to ride where ever and when ever we want away if we don’t police ourselves. I don’t care if you modify your bike but keep the sound levals SANE and for the love of God stop reving your 2cyl lump NO ONE cares about your potatoe potatoe just like you don’t care about their ears and peaceful Sunday afternoons.

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By: Paul Danger Kile

Paul Danger Kile — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:08:37 +0000

Is this the first, and only time, that the AMA gave this honor to someone that went _against_ our values? Not that we value loud bikes, but this law is not what the AMA wanted.

To be sure, the original bill was much worse, but that’s not why he won.

I know that he rides a trike, but did he ever get an actual endorsement (not necessary for trikes in CA)?

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By: ilikefood

ilikefood — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:43:57 +0000

Loud sportbikes are just as stupid and detrimental to motorcycling as loud cruisers, but there is absolutely no question that there are more loud cruisers (both in absolute numbers and percentage-wise) than there are loud sportbikes.

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