Loud pipes

The annual summer haggers are hagging about loud pipes again. True some
are loud when they crank it. Must be those straight pipes and removed
baffle mufflers. I have glass packs which rack off if I really wind it
but are not too loud. I guess most cops ignore loud pipes, there are
already noise laws on the books.

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I'm glad scorpions don't fly.

bcrawford

<Blazing Laser> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:40:44 -0400, Broderick Crawford
> <bcrawford2150 RemoveThis @roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>
> In the hills south of San Francisco there's an intersection of two
> wonderful mountain roads. One is Hwy35, 'Skyline Blvd' that runs a
> long the backbone of the hills of the peninusula, the other is 84
> which goes up over the hills and down to the ocean. Where they
> intersect there is a little 'village'. There's a convenience store
> where, on any Summer weekend afternoon you will see as many as 100
> motorcycles parked, and across the street is Alice's Restaurant. You
> can sit on the deck at Alices and it's like being on vacation in the
> mountains, yet this is a 30 or 45-min. drive from anywhere in the bay
> area, an area of seven million people! (If you're ever in the
> neighborhood, I'd love to take you up there).
>

<snip accurate description of the Santa Cruz Mountains >

All so true. I used to ride my Mountain Bike from Los Altos up Moody Road
to Skyline and into the open space districts. It also pissed me off to bike
deep in the quiet forest and still be able to hear the oncoming rumble of
dozens of Harleys. The screaming sportbikes were just as annoying.

Sometimes we would have to ride our bikes along Skyline in order to connect
mountain bike trails. On ocassion a herd of Harleys would pass so close I
could feel the heat from their exhaust and the noise was deafening.

I really despise loud pipes. They are a symbol of how selfish people are.
It has nothing to do with "freedom" or "safety" or "performance", that is
all a smokescreen for immature anti-social behavior and screams "Look at me,
I am sooo cool!".

All that being said, I love the noise at the track.