I don't mind parties and music - it's festive in nature but loud mcyles are just downright annoying!
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, "LarryT" <l02tur...@comcast.net> wrote: Many communities have Noise Ordinances which require people to be quiet after 9PM - loud parties, loud music, etc. were the primary target. Read the Constitution once in a while - http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dimitri Seretakis" <dsereta...@yahoo.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - motorcycles and noise I'm a pretty tolerant person and hate to strip people of their rights but loud motorcycles at any time of the day is really annoying. We can get tickets for beeping but the deafening rumble of a mcycle is ok? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2009, at 1:48 PM, "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: 'Nice and quiet all night last night; 'guess the motorcycle fool/nut doesn't have his bike fixed yet. Wilton ----- Original Message ----- From: "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:13 PM Subject: OT - motorcycles and noise For several months, some cycle nut within a coupla blocks of here has been riding his very loud motorcycle around the neighborhood very aggressively. Whenever he accelerates, it seems to be at full throttle, even when on cross streets going block-to-block - accelerate at full throttle for first part of block, stop for stop sign, accelerate at full throttle, stop for stop sign, etc. It's most annoying at midnight 'til wee hours of the morning. 'Coupla nights ago at 1 AM , he came through in the typical loud and aggressive manner, and SWMBO call police; their response was, "We'll send somebody out." 'Course by the time anybody got here, offender was long gone, and all was quiet. About mid-afternoon yesterday, I heard screeching sound and some "commotion" on my side street and at its intersection with through street out front. I hobbled to kitchen, looked out window toward corner and saw nothing. 'Few minutes later SWMBO came in from side yard. I asked her what was the noise a few minutes before. She said the guy with the loud motorcycle was coming up side street very fast; as he was approaching stop at through street, his helmet blew off. This must have distracted him for a moment; he wobbled, then realized he needed to stop, applied lotsa brake resulting in body and machine tumbling through the intersection. By the time I looked out, he must have been behind bushes or a tree. SWMBO said he got up and rolled the cycle away with slight limp. This morning I noticed a long skid mark and little piles of broken plastic in the street and intersection; my thought, "Couldn't have happened to a better one." 'Didn't hear the loud and very annoying cycle last night. 'Glad he wasn't hurt terribly bad and much glader he didn't hurt somebody else - yet. Wilton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt Raymond" <curtlud...@yahoo.com> To: "Diesel List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT for motorcycle guys: cheap '83 Honda Nighthawk CB650questions 1200cc Sportster? At least she probably doesn't look like an idiot on it. My friend Ed bought one, he's 6' 2", looked like a fool, this huge guy on a tiny bike. My wife rode it once and swore off Harleys based on it. The only Harley I'd have is something like an Ultra-Classic and then only with fuel injection. My father-in-law has one and its pretty nice. Of course my wife doesn't universally love her Kawi either, she doesn't like the cruiser seating arrangement any more than I do. I think I'll sell it in the spring (its all hell to sell a bike in the summer) and look for something in a 500cc standard. Harley guys here are all up in arms because we've got noise regulation coming in, I laugh, they've done it to themselves. Loud pipes don't save lives, riding defensively does. All loud pipes do is piss off non-bikers who then want to pass regulations. Theres more of them than there are of us so we're the ones need to play nice... Which reminds me I need to get looking for pipes for my Honda, one has a small rust through. A lot of guys swapped to 4-into-1 so original pipes should be reasonable... -Curt Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:00:12 -0500 From: Wonko the Sane <don.b...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT for motorcycle guys: cheap '83 Honda Nighthawk CB650 questions To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <61dfb08b0907071700g2b6c827dpe6841d9657c4...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" My son did that (yuppie bastard that he is -- can I say bastard on this list? -- guess I just did). He bought a Harley DynaWideGlide -- had it delivered by trailer to his NoVA condo and didn't ride it. Yet. Passed the MSF course on a 250cc bike -- and, friends and neighbours, that is 6'6" and at least 250+ lbs on a 250cc. I'd venture to guess that there was not a whole lot of acceleration and it very top heavy in the turns. MSF ticket in hand, heTHEN started riding his Harley. He's has still scared the crap out of himself a couple of times on the bike, but is gaining experience and so far still has a pulse. As a tip to the hat for the females who might be reading this, his wife took the course along with him, and he marked her graduation with the purchase of her 1200cc Sportster. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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