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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:35 PM Original message |
Honestly, do motorcycles have to be so damn loud? |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. No, but it makes people in cars aware of their presence. |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't know if they are louder.... but why do they have to blast their radios, too? |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. We live on a quiet street and when one of 'em goes by at midnight or so, |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. :rofl: |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Exactly! |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Until Halloween 2010, I used to live in Santa Clara... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. why do farts have to smell so nasty? |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. True, but that's a separate thread. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
9. tell me you've seen the South Park where they address it? |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. No, I just never got into South Park |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. I LOVE the sound of a Harley. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I understand that at one time Harley tried to copyright its sound |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. No one could ever "imitate" it anyway. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. They abandoned their effort to trademark the sound: |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
11. Yes, they do |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I think the current volume level is way more than needed for that purpose. |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Depends |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. LOL |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. heh |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. I should not have to be that loud, and if they do have to be that loud |
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cloudbase (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. If, as some say, |
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Riftaxe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
22. My suspicion is that they are just poorly made |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
23. "Loud pipes save lives" is an open question |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
24. Yesterday night I just asked my brother if he thought motorcycles this year were louder. |
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IcyPeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. There's a twit in my neighborhood... |
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