Brrrrm brrrrm engine effect is more fun that ssssp sssssp engines.
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
To me the sound of those big bikes is a form of terrorism. They rise my blood pressure, increase stress levels and make me hate. Try living somewhere where every 20 minutes such bikes make the windows of your flat shake and you can't hear your TV or your partner talking until the bike is gone. Why do I have to suffer this every day of my life? I can't wait until the ICE is part of our primitive past.
I understand that performance engines need unobstructed exhausts up to a certain point, but pipes tuned to amplify this sound is distracting at best, damaging your ears at worst. I don't like them. They become hazardous in tunnels, underpasses and other closed spaces. Ultra loud pipes kill my ears' locating capabilities and I can't mentally place the motorcycle to the correct place so I won't unintentionally endanger…
I don't know what to tell you, I'm normally a pretty sensible type. Stick to the speed limits, have a small sensible car etc. But on a motorbike the noise of the exhaust while riding a motorcycle is intoxicating!
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#53I can’t wait for electric motorbikes to be more diverse and advanced. I used to be a “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen” kinda guy. Until one day, sat in standstill traffic in my car on the M74 motorway just outside Glasgow, a rider on a BMW S1000XR, with the same loud exhaust as on mine, filtered past the window and I didn’t hear him until he was level with my rear passenger door. Exhausts sound great, i love the…
To me the sound of those big bikes is a form of terrorism. They rise my blood pressure, increase stress levels and make me hate. Try living somewhere where every 20 minutes such bikes make the windows of your flat shake and you can't hear your TV or your partner talking until the bike is gone. Why do I have to suffer this every day of my life? I can't wait until the ICE is part of our primitive past.
> To me the sound of those big bikes is a form of terrorism
Small bikes are way worse. These 50cc two stroke engines, often illegally modified with loud exhaust. Not only they are as loud if not louder than a big motorbike but they are so slow they linger around for a while, often it populated area like cities.
They are popular in France because you only need to be 14 to ride one (vs 18 for cars) and you don't need a license.
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#54The "Active Mass Center Control System" made me wonder: is it possible to make a passive balancing system that would keep a two wheel bike standing up?
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#55https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lx0ZJGgsFs Here is a video demonstration,
From 2018!
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#56I can’t wait for electric motorbikes to be more diverse and advanced. I used to be a “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen” kinda guy. Until one day, sat in standstill traffic in my car on the M74 motorway just outside Glasgow, a rider on a BMW S1000XR, with the same loud exhaust as on mine, filtered past the window and I didn’t hear him until he was level with my rear passenger door. Exhausts sound great, i love the…
> Exhausts sound great, i love the sound of a nice engine, it’s utterly intoxicating
Loud motorcycle engines are the sound of the world’s hugest assholes making their giant fart in the public’s face.
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#57I noticed, they use a hub motor on a swingarm.
All hub motored bikes I rode have a very, very strong squat because of hub motor's huge torque.
I don't see how they counter it here.
I seen other EV motorcycles to counter it using parallelogram suspension setup: Kymco F9, Gogogro G1, Sunra Miku Max
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand that performance engines need unobstructed exhausts up to a certain point, but pipes tuned to amplify this sound is distracting at best, damaging your ears at worst. I don't like them. They become hazardous in tunnels, underpasses and other closed spaces. Ultra loud pipes kill my ears' locating capabilities and I can't mentally place the motorcycle to the correct place so I won't unintentionally endanger…
I don't know what to tell you, I'm normally a pretty sensible type. Stick to the speed limits, have a small sensible car etc. But on a motorbike the noise of the exhaust while riding a motorcycle is intoxicating!
Inhaling the exhaust is intoxicating too. Not all of us want to destroy our lives for cheap thrills.
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#59The "Active Mass Center Control System" made me wonder: is it possible to make a passive balancing system that would keep a two wheel bike standing up?
That's a good question. There are some Halbach array tricks that you could probably pull where based on displacement the central mass generates a current that then moves the COG back to where it should be to rebalance. The losses probably will cause it to fall over after a while so that would be more of a stay of execution than a complete solution. The lower resistance of the coils the longer it would stay up. And adding a small active component to overcome the losses and it would stay up until the power ran out, but that would violate your 'passive' requirement.
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#60I can’t wait for electric motorbikes to be more diverse and advanced. I used to be a “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen” kinda guy. Until one day, sat in standstill traffic in my car on the M74 motorway just outside Glasgow, a rider on a BMW S1000XR, with the same loud exhaust as on mine, filtered past the window and I didn’t hear him until he was level with my rear passenger door. Exhausts sound great, i love the…
> “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen” People are very good at justifying thier anti-social behaviour to themselves.
That was my interpretation at first too, but their anecdote about being heard from inside a car leads me to believe they're talking about cars seeing/hearing them on the road for safety reasons.