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I live about 5 miles (on the same road) as the local Harley Davidson dealership and would love it if HD riders left the stock pipes on their bikes. While the engines do vibrate, don't dismiss the additional concussive force of an unmuffled exhaust.
Isn't there a legal limit on the amount of dB(A) produced by any vehicle?
I live about 5 miles (on the same road) as the local Harley Davidson dealership and would love it if HD riders left the stock pipes on their bikes. While the engines do vibrate, don't dismiss the additional concussive force of an unmuffled exhaust.
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Even if it's ineffective, it's still a psychological safety blanket. It's much the same reason that bikers ride in groups.
I'll keep that in mind next time a loud bike wakes up my children in the middle of the night. "It's okay honey, that man needed a psychological safety blanket.'
I live about 5 miles (on the same road) as the local Harley Davidson dealership and would love it if HD riders left the stock pipes on their bikes. While the engines do vibrate, don't dismiss the additional concussive force of an unmuffled exhaust.
Road bikes too. I wrecked my iPhone 8’s autofocus after riding ~1000 miles with it on a handlebar mount. Obviously there’s no engine vibration but chip-and-seal roads have a similar effect.
Though I do use a rubbery holder with good damping properties [1] and only recently moved over to a fixed one out of aluminum [2] for one of the phones, which could start causing this issue.
No superbikes for you Apple users :D - recoils in anticipation of onslaught of downvotes -
In all fairness I expect it's going to be difficult to design anything with such small delicate moving parts to be invulnerable to arbitrary frequency vibrations. It can also be challenging to accurately model the resonant frequency response of composite "stuff" prior to manufacturing it (many bridges have failed). Better luck with the next model I guess...
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For the bikes being loud enough that everyone knows you’re coming is life and death issue on the road surrounded by huge cars and trucks
This doesn’t deserve to be downvoted. The statement is correct. I have a permanently destroyed right foot and ankle because someone made a left turn from the right lane just outside the Holland Tunnel in NJ back in 2004. The driver “didn’t see me” before making the illegal turn and planting his Mercedes horizontally across my lane as he slowed to enter the gas station driveway. I laid my quiet 800cc bike down and plo…
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Even if it's ineffective, it's still a psychological safety blanket. It's much the same reason that bikers ride in groups.
I'll keep that in mind next time a loud bike wakes up my children in the middle of the night. "It's okay honey, that man needed a psychological safety blanket.'
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You are clearly not a biker... otherwise you might have understood why EV motorcycles are years, maybe decades into the future. If you refer to e.g Asia where motorcycles are possibly your only transport, then sure; your argument is valid. But this is HN, and in Western countries a motorcycle is basically a hobby. Heck, they are often even more expensive to run than cars. So as to why EV bikes are not even close to b…
It is kind of inevitable in the long run if cars move on to being EVs, where will bikes fill up if there are no more gas stations? That being said, I’ve only ever seen one EV motorcycle in China once (not just a big electric bike), it had unreal acceleration, I’m not sure it would be safe to ride.