I’ve no doubt something will happen here soon.
It seems to me that the majority of Harley owners fit short slash pipes or similar, with zero silencing. They are annoying and anti-socially loud.
Then there is the trend for cut down cans. Plus, loads of modern bikes being de-catted, which often means replacing the combined cat/silencer with a bit of stainless tube, along with a six inch straight through ‘silencer’.
Some of these bikes can make you jump as they pass they are so foccing loud.
All the boy racers are in on it now too. De-catted hot hatches, free flow exhausts, and worst of all ‘crackle and pop’ tunes. The people who sell and set up ‘crackle and pop’ tunes along with those that own such modified vehicles – well how about hang and quatre – foccin muppits.
Look I like bikes and cars that sound good, that make a wee bit of noise. But I also like to be able to start my bike at 7 in the morning and ride off down the street without annoying anybody.
I fear that bikers are, and because of ever increasing noise, once again being seen in general by many as anti-social pests,
At some point there’s gonna be new laws and enforcement.