Loud Pipes and Cell Phones
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ORIGINAL: SportyPig
True, but if they would just enforce, and stiffen, the right of way laws, we wouldn't need the loud pipes.
ORIGINAL: xxxflhrci
And some people wonder why loud pipe laws are being enforced more and moreevery day.
And some people wonder why loud pipe laws are being enforced more and moreevery day.
We NEED the loud pipes!
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I got cut off (had plenty of room because I anticipated it) by a phone-yakking middle aged female exiting a McDonalds. Since her window was down I calmly mentioned to her that she was driving a car, not a phone booth and whatever she was talking about wasn't worth an accident.
She actually blushed and hung up.
Being where you won't get hit is much more important than having loud pipes. Plenty of people ride safely on quiet pipes and don't get hit.
Sure, loud pipesmight help once in a while but they are regarded around here comes across as if they are the solution rather than potential icing on the cake.
The only thing that has been tempting me to get some Sqwaking Eagle pipes is to annoy cell-phone yakkers at stoplights.
I think there may be a moral obligation to disrupt them and make the world a safer place in ways that don't involve nanny-state rules.
She actually blushed and hung up.
Being where you won't get hit is much more important than having loud pipes. Plenty of people ride safely on quiet pipes and don't get hit.
Sure, loud pipesmight help once in a while but they are regarded around here comes across as if they are the solution rather than potential icing on the cake.
The only thing that has been tempting me to get some Sqwaking Eagle pipes is to annoy cell-phone yakkers at stoplights.
I think there may be a moral obligation to disrupt them and make the world a safer place in ways that don't involve nanny-state rules.
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ORIGINAL: SportyPig
I not only rev the bike a bit, but when they look over at me in disgust, I point to the helmet sticker on the right side of my helmet....."Hang Up and DRIVE"
Oh, but I do know a guy that talks on his cell all the time while he rides. The touring bikes, except for the RoadKing, have an option to add cell phone capability to the audio system. He has that. When a call comes in, the caller ID comes up on the screen of his audio system, and then he can answer it using the same microphone and earphones that are used for the intercom system. I wouldn't want to try that, but he does it all the time.
I not only rev the bike a bit, but when they look over at me in disgust, I point to the helmet sticker on the right side of my helmet....."Hang Up and DRIVE"
Oh, but I do know a guy that talks on his cell all the time while he rides. The touring bikes, except for the RoadKing, have an option to add cell phone capability to the audio system. He has that. When a call comes in, the caller ID comes up on the screen of his audio system, and then he can answer it using the same microphone and earphones that are used for the intercom system. I wouldn't want to try that, but he does it all the time.
He saw me looking at him walking and talking and said "Bluetooth helmet" and gave me the thumbs up......and then stumbled.
Inside at Starbucks Crackhouse we actually chatted a little. He likened the safety of phone-on-the-bike yakking to riding around with the radio (on his japanabagger) up loud. I likened it to not paying attention to what the fork you're doing for no particularly good reason.
I've got a Fire Red Pearl Red Fire Red Pearl Fire whatever the hell it is 06 883L as well. I'm glad you have yours in your signature picture. I like seeing the constant rotation of pictures and hope you don't find the "perfect" one and settle on it.
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RE: Loud Pipes and Cell Phones
[sm=icon_rock.gif] Oh yeah! Rev 'em up, and let 'em know that they need to be paying attention to the road.
I got no problem with that!
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I got no problem with that!
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ORIGINAL: XL OCD
Cell phones and moms in SUVs are the only time you'll find me being obnoxious w/ my pipes. Glad I'm not the only one.
Cell phones and moms in SUVs are the only time you'll find me being obnoxious w/ my pipes. Glad I'm not the only one.
Second place is the little twerp in his grand am, truck bouncing and vibrating more than a battery on a rigid mount, bling-bling hanging around his neck that resembles something out of a $.25 gum ball machine, and a lean that makes ya wonder, "how in the hell does he see over the dash!?!?!?!". All of this topped of, literally, by a hat that is so far off straight, there is a ring in the back of my head asking,"if this jack-monkey can't put his hat on straight,I DEFINETLY can't image he can drive straight!!!".
and to that I say, LET THEM ROAR!!!!! hell, give him a hello with the on/off switch!
and on that note..... ride safe.
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I use my phone and drive just fine thanks. Loud pipes? Have volume control for that. Also use a bluetooth headset for the hands free conversations if I'm in the mood. Guess I am not as against cars as the rest of you are.
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RE: Loud Pipes and Cell Phones
ORIGINAL: joel85
I use my phone and drive just fine thanks.
I use my phone and drive just fine thanks.
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