Noise Pollution by Harley Davidsons

You could be treading on thin Ice there GoneTroppo.

I was sneaking up on a deer the other week, then I heard ticky ticky ticky as a mate in a diesel came up behind me and while still 50m away its noise over rodet hat of my petrol powered Nissan Patrol.

No they're not exempt from the noise regulations. The secret is to run two sets of pipes. If you get a canary on the Screamin' Eagles, you simple swap the shotgun mufflers for the factory stock, get your tick and then once presented, swap back to the shotguns again. I think that with the majority of Harley's being ridden by "Angry Accountants" on sunny days and weekends, the coppers really concetrate on the more important issues connected to road safety like speed, drink, and obvious hoons (Unless it's some hairy mother wearing colours overtly advertising that he's running 2 kgs of meth over the border).

I'm not saying you don't have a legitimate gripe anymore than I do with the hoons doing circle work in the carpark near my place at 2 a.m. but in the scheme of all things road safety, it's relaytivelyyminor. (Besides, he's probably paid between $30-50K for the bike so he's gotta let everyone know he is the baddest mother with a midlife crisis on the block lol).

Cheers Mick

(P.S. Owned two noisy ones myself over the years before common sense got the better of me Ha)

Ditto re the 'Note' vs 'duff-duff' cacophony, but then again being a motorcyclist, I may be a little biased.
cheers

i am not sure the police would want to stop him anyway. just look at all the news now here in nsw re bikie gangs and new laws to try get the police to take control of them. our useless premier now has police protection in case the bikies retaliate against the new laws. what next. (he may need more protection from the public soon if the power keeps going out in sydney)

anyway you could try something a guy i once worked with did. its slightly different circumstances but result maybe same, dependant on whether the noise gets less if he is travelling slower (that i dont know not ever owning one) anyway tony from work was sick of never getting a park at work (regents park in sydney) due to workers from nearby businesses taking up all space. so being a maintenance chippy he made up a replica timber bus stop sign pole and painted it to match others and placed it right out front of work. from then on no one parked there except tony as they thought they would get fined. he always got his spot for several more years until he retired and was never fined for parking there. maybe you can fit a couple road closed signs or grooved road - not suitable for motorbikes signs each side of your property and get him to find a new way??? probably wont work there but as tony showed a liitle inginuity goes a long way to solving some of lifes dramas ....( last time i went up that road tony's bus stop pole was still there and no one parking in front of it - about 15 years after he put it in)

We have a neighbour???? who does the same thing outside my house most afternoons - I keep threatening to back a truck outside in front of him but my wife is worried about the manslaughter charge.
As we are 50m from the intersection where he turns to roar past my house i figure that no court would convict me as he is going so fast that by the time I can walk outside from my house he is out of sight so this is my defence.
All this in a suburb in Cairns and he has been doing it for years - the noise is so loud you cant hear a TV in your own house and they wonder why people get upset.

I've heard also that many Hog owners must have alternate muffler kits, because there's no way that some of them could be at legal noise levels. I'm happy to let them have their fun, but that happiness falls short of having my hearing damaged if they pull out to pass me when my window is down. That isn't right !

Sitting in a quite park one day on one of our trips and along comes a mob of Harley's, I said to the Missus "wish the cops would pick them up for the bloody noise they make" she says "you want to hear your MU when you take off".......... so I shut up hahahahahaha

Unholy Hog noise is an ongoing irritant which contributes considerably to my misanthropy.
So do trail bikes with inadequate silencing; hovering News helicopters; illegal low flying aircraft; "hotted" utes with noisy exhausts and tyres that are specifically chosen because of the fine "music" they make when cornering, doing do-nuts etc.; a neighbour in a block of flats who brought home his nightclub DJ gear to 'practice' for a couple of hours each night etc.etc.etc.

Gotta go bush, and plurry soon!!!

just wait on the side of the road one morning and pull him over . Ask the rider politely if they wouldnt mind getting quieter mufflers as it is waking you up in the morning .

I like the sound of a Harley, there is nothing better, just wait and flag him down one morning and ask him politely to tone it down a bit, maybe he will and maybe he won't, at least you will have tried, you never know he might be all noise, and then again he might pay you a visit with his mates, so flag him down in front of some one elses place lol lol.


Cheers
Daza

And its funny that no matter how loud your muffler is -- cage drivers ( car drivers ) still do not see or hear us ........



Boc

Your not related to Harold Scrubby are you? LOL

Aw c'mon, Harley's are not loud.

How can you compare the note of a Harley Exhaust to that of a 2 litre Rice Burner with a megafone exhaust and an exit "hole" one could crawl up if you desired.

Damn, I'm gonna have to put some mufflers on my old girl for when I go to FNQ. Nothing sweeter than the sound of a flathead with open pipes.

Louie

GT

Are they not just Air Compressors on wheels.. LOL

I live across the road from the Club Deroes MC club house, had to go out a buy a 4 stroke lawn mower so just not to bleep them off..

Cheers

Richard

Gee more HD enthusiasts here than one would have thought. (can't call 'em bikers anymore because that might risk them being declared a subversive organization:-))

I never meant to sound like a wowser.... It's just that I get up at 5.45am and that last hours or so of sleep in the morning is the best bit, so i get p.....d off at being woken at 5am.

On another note note I have just started building up a 292 Chevvy inline six for the Bedford and I understand that with the right headers and pipes you can get quite a unique rasp when you back of the throttle.

Would it be a good idea to get up a bit earlier, say on a Sunday, and go for a drive at about 5am??

The rule that doesn't seem to apply to motor cycles, is to keep within double white lines!