To say that motorbikes sound bloody awful

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I have the windows open as it's so hot and every so often I'll hear one zooming past and my god, the noise, they make the rest of the traffic sound like white noise in comparison.

Am I overly sensitive to noise or do you agree?

We’re rural. It’s a lovely sunny day. The bikers have been out for a while already and will continue to speed through the village making a racket on their way to a local meeting up place. Fingers crossed there’s no sirens today.

Whothewho, wouldn't it just be safer not to ride one?

I hate hairdryers on wheels, especially the supped up unnecessarily loud for no reason at all ones.

DPs bike on the other hand is a low tone and sounds quite nice, it’s a very sexy bike (it looks like a vintage bike) and i really like it.

I think the main issue is some bikers are just a bit twatish and enjoy making their presence known a little too much.

We're fairly close to the only through road between the main city and some very popular small towns and beaches. We get a LOT of motorbikes passing by, especially on a Sunday. They are loud, but I only notice them when I have the back door/windows open. I can hear some right now! Lots of groups of bikers pass through. My late dad rode a motorbike in the 70s and 80s. He used to take me out on it - I was the only one of my siblings prepared to get on. We would ride to somewhere nice, stroll around, have an ice cream and then home. My dad was non tactile and pretty uncommunicative, so I valued those times when I got to be close to him, even if it was only clinging round his waist for dear life! Motorbike noise is nostalgic for me and stirs a lot of memories.

2 stroke or 4 stroke ?

The other day, we stopped in the beautiful village of Finchingfield in Essex (chocolatebox beautiful). It was perfect weather and lots of people were sitting around the green, outside pubs and cafes, enjoying the surroundings.

In the half hour that we were there, a constant procession of loud motorbikes arrived.Bad enough but most of them were more interested in leaving the engines running, revving them up and admiring the other bikes.

Everyone else just had to suck it up or leave. We left.

I love a good motorbike - the engine noise is gorgeous, like a sports car.

Scooters and souped-up shit bikes sound awful and jarring.

Yes some of them are awful, we get a few young guys riding these little off-road bikes through the village sometimes and they are so loud, my 7yr old came running in from outside with his hands over his ears the other day when one went up the road. My dad has got a big touring motorbike and that one isn't loud at all, we never hear him coming or going!

The shrill sound of mopeds and such I completely understand. Real bikes, no.
I am a biker, loud pipes do save lives, and yes they are needed because for every idiot biker, there is another road user who is equally idiotic - in any vehicle.

We all have sounds we'll tolerate I guess.

Finchingfield is a bike destination, and very welcomed for the trade we bring to the village.

@Macncheeseballs

Whothewho, wouldn't it just be safer not to ride one?

Yes, so us bikers should give up something we enjoy because car drivers are morons.

You should look at the statistics about how many accidents are the fault of the biker. More accidents are the fault of car drivers.

Loud pipes save lives. It's as simple as that.

Loud motorcycle noise really jars me. I get irrationally irritated by it.

Loud pipes save lives.... Most car drivers don't look for bike but if they hear them it wakes them up!

I hate motorbikes. They make a horrible noise and I've never understand why some people think they look cool!

I generally don't mind most motorbikes but I hate Harleys. God awful racket 😖 and I hate how they look too Can't stand the little ones that sound like angry wasps trapped in jam jars either 😖

@BeautifulBirds

Loud pipes save lives.... Most car drivers don't look for bike but if they hear them it wakes them up!

Actually, they don't. This is a myth which has been dubuked for several years.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/amp35952569/loud-pipes-do-not-save-lives/

Given how many posters are complaining about the noise bikes make, I'd say that 'research' isn't quite accurate for UK roads and residents.

One of my neighbours, who thinks she a one woman HA Chapter, wheels her bike out of the garage on a day like this.

Then she sits astride it for a good 10 minutes (I am that petty and I have times it) and revs the fuck out of the fucker.

Not only do you get the noise bouncing like crazy of all the buildings (terraced up and around a hill) but you also get the smell of the exhaust.

@Lockheart

That's an obscure study that hasn't replicated real life in any way.

The loud pipes saves lives comes from times where a bike is next to a car and the car is changing lanes without having a proper look (happens a lot). The horn on a bike is pathetic, whereas the pipes are loud and alert the driver to the mistake they are about to make.

Tell you what @firsttimedad79 it also makes a car driver jump out of their bloody skin.

What a motorcycle rider wants less than being noticed, is a driver momentarily being surprised and distracted.

The study is an obscure, unpublished one, using a handful of bikes.
If car windows prevent motorcycle noise, why are people complaining about it travelling through double glazing?
I ride and drive and I can say I love hearing a loud bike it alerts me to its location before I see it!

What a motorcycle rider wants less than being noticed, is a driver momentarily being surprised and distracted
What any motorcyclist, or other road user wants, is for people to be alert when behind a wheel or bars. If a bike with a loud exhaust, is surprising drivers and distracting them when they ride alongside - then I'd say that driver wasn't paying attention in the first place.

Same for the people who surprisingly don't see or hear ambulances or police car sirens

I like the deep, rumbly sound of a Harley. Hate the higher pitch of the plastic bikes and utterly despise the hairdryers.

A loud twattish little motorbike ridden by a young lad who's trying to make an impression always sounds awful but a proper grown up motorbike ridden by someone with nothing to prove should just purr iyswim.

We lived next door to the former - I hoped he's grown up and grown out of it - for everyone's sake.

@TSSDNCOP

Tell you what *@firsttimedad79* it also makes a car driver jump out of their bloody skin.

What a motorcycle rider wants less than being noticed, is a driver momentarily being surprised and distracted.

Damn right it does. As car drivers pay a hell of a lot less attention than bikers.

I think the compulsory basic training should be part of every driving test to give car drivers the insight of riding a bike and the mental tools to drive with that in mind.

YANBU their noise is so damn obnoxious