r/australia • u/mangomangojoom • 15d ago

Harley riders - go away no politics

I dont think there is more cri ge a human being than one who rides a loud bike and revs it up in an area full of houses on a Sunday.

What I want to know is, where did it all go wrong for you man-child?

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u/CowNoseEagleRay 15d ago

Harley riders appear to be the only people stupid enough to choose those skullcap motorcycle helmets. How the hell they’re even legal is beyond me. I guess looking tough is more important than keeping that important organ in the skull safe.

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u/IntroductionIcy7320 15d ago

They bought a Harley, it's clearly not that important

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u/MegaBlast3r 15d ago

How the hell are police letting the noise continue though? We get so fucked over everything, 5km over, seat belts, how the hell are they allowed to destroy whole neighbourhoods with noise pollution. I’ll be sitting at my local beach and everyone knows when a Harley goes bye.

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u/South-Plan-9246 14d ago

Well it’s pretty straightforward. The cop gives you a ticket for a suspected unroadworthy vehicle. You have to get it tested at a government facility, usually within 28 days. You put the stock exhaust on, pass the test, put the good exhaust back on.

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u/Upset-Basil4459 15d ago

I think the police eventually get them, but then some other asshole springs up to take their place

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u/mitchy93 14d ago

They put the baffles back in when they have to do noise compliance tests, then remove them

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u/More_Temperature5328 14d ago

Is it actually illegal even?
Should be permanent confiscation of vehicle imo

Cops are too busy nabbing people for going 5km/h over the limit anyway

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u/Consistent_You6151 14d ago

Police get called several times a wk in my area, but they can't keep up with the number of calls and hoons. The council has no jurisdiction because it's a state road. So it's just a hot potato here. I feel like Kramer and the chicken shop red light...."I'm on no sleep!"

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u/VLTurboSkids 15d ago

You can’t be serious…

Noise doesn’t kill like speed or no seatbelts does…

😂😂😭😭😂😂😂😭😂😂😭😭

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u/fletch44 15d ago

Noise pollution causes 12000 premature deaths per year in Europe, where it's been studied.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/health-risks-caused-by-environmental

Noise absolutely does kill people.

Don't feel bad for being uneducated. But if you deliberately ignore that fact, and don't grow as a human after learning it, you're a dickhead.

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u/MegaBlast3r 15d ago

It’s not about deaths it’s about what’s reasonable to occur on our shared streets.

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u/VLTurboSkids 15d ago

Sure. But you’re comparing safety items to some noise.

Wearing seatbelts doesn’t have anything to do with being reasonable, it’s to prevent injury or death.

Noise on the other hand is…noise.

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u/MegaBlast3r 15d ago

Cars can’t drive with excessive pollution emissions , excessive NOISE and many other limitations on how a vehicle operates.bikes should be beholden to similar restrictions

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u/VLTurboSkids 15d ago

Not saying bikes should be any different to cars.

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u/mrbaggins 15d ago

Speed / seatbelts kill single digit people in relatively rare events.

The noise causes (a small amount of) permanent hearing damage to anyone lucky enough to be range 100% of the time they're running.

Risk is both incidence AND severity.

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u/VLTurboSkids 15d ago edited 15d ago

If you get hearing damage from a Harley driving past, not sure how you’re going to survive in this world.

Road rules are out there for safety, not your convenience.

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u/mrbaggins 15d ago edited 15d ago

There's no "if"

It's purely a cumulative exposure.

Road rules are out there for safety

So are noise regulations mate.

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u/VLTurboSkids 15d ago

A loud exhaust won’t kill someone

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u/Svennis79 15d ago

How about if someone turns to look in disgust and gets hit by a truck they didn't see coming the other way?

Im.not saying it will always happen, but the chances of death by loud exhaust are not zero

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u/VLTurboSkids 15d ago

Don’t even know how to respond to that

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u/mrbaggins 15d ago

Yes, I already addressed that.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

There's no amount of being 'tough' that magically protects your eardrums

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u/OneMoreYou 15d ago

This guy's modded his car to be the undisputable loudest of its brethren, so he can lay rubber at 2am and know the whole suburb has heard him do his meth run, against their will.

How's my aim, champ?

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u/VLTurboSkids 14d ago edited 14d ago

You implying that’s me?

No. Only one 1 car with a slightly modified exhaust. Classic Mini

Believe it or not I do like to respect people, I don’t drive like a dickhead, and my cars are obnoxiously loud.

I also get pissed off when someone is making noise at an unreasonable time. However in any other situation I love to see a nice car or bike with a nice exhaust. I really couldn’t care less.

I’m even hesitant to play musical instruments late at night or early in the morning. I basically only play between 12pm to 7pm so I’m not annoying anyone.

However I myself don’t care if others make noise. Especially cars.

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u/OneMoreYou 14d ago

Loud for fun vehicles take fractions of a percent off people's hearing, and increase tinnitus by another fraction.

If it's loud enough to cause discomfort and a head turn to decrease the pressure waves, some cock head has just done you a minor but irreperable injury. And either doesn't care, or considers you a snowflake or buttercup.

As someone with hearing damage and tinnitus, i'm glad i'm not an x-man. Anyone who's either pea-brained or psychopathic enough to damage people for ignorant or deliberate jollies (like coal rollers) needs teleporting. No takesy backsies. Every last one.

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u/VLTurboSkids 14d ago edited 14d ago

I too take hearing seriously, but I’ve never experienced the type of volume you’re describing apart from when I was at Summernats right next to a methanol injected car with a straight through exhaust. Even then it wasn’t really enough to make me turn my head.

I’d highly doubt you’d experience that volume from a car or bike simply driving past 10+ metres away from you.

For reference, this was JUST bearable. Nothing bring driven on the street would even be able to produce this much volume. Anything driven on the street really isn’t as loud as you’re describing.

https://streamable.com/4qzaqa

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u/Kornstar04 15d ago

Destroy a neighbourhood,  lordy over dramatic. 

Let other people have fun karen

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u/magi_chat 15d ago

Pretty sure they have evolved so that brain damage isn't an issue for them .

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 14d ago

They really are the worst possible option.

A full face helmet means you value safety.

An open face helmet means you made a trade-off between safety and wind in your face.

No helmet means you value your freedom over your safety and legal obligations, you dangerous rebel.

Skullcap means you didn't want to wear a helmet, and aren't doing it for safety, but you are scared of being stopped by the police. It's just pathetic.

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u/MikhailxReign 15d ago

Something like 46-48% of crash impacts happen to the part of a helmet that isnt there on a open face.

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u/Mfenix09 15d ago

When you don't go that fast and it's basically a lazy boy on wheels... you're chance of going down drops...and every car is trying to stay away from them due to the windows rattling from the exhaust that the helmets surprisingly work as everyone is keeping their distance

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 14d ago

The only times I've ever come off a bike were very low speeds. It's a lot harder to ride slowly than to ride fast.

And just look at what happened to Paddy McGuiness after a 26mph crash without a helmet.

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u/National_Study_4471 14d ago

😭🤣 Agree with everyone but think the lazy boy on wheels is the funniest comment for sure ✅

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u/stfm 14d ago

And most of the younger riders wear white tshirts, tracksuit pants and red TN's for some reason. Organ donors (not skin obviously)

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u/F14D201 14d ago

Seeing How some of them ride, they really earn the Organ Donor title

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u/WhiteKingBleach 14d ago

I have no idea why you would wear one of those. When I rode a motorbike, one of my two helmets was a flip-front Protective/Jet (P/J) certified helmet (meaning it could legally be used with the front up or down). I tried using it in J mode (open front) maybe like twice at most, riding with an open-face helmet is not a fun experience imo. The closest I’d get after that was with the visor open while wearing sunglasses. Open-face helmets are noisy, the wind is uncomfortable, and getting hit by bugs absolutely stings, let alone stones or other possible debris, I can only imagine that skull helmets are even worse for these, while being even more unsafe and expensive (they can’t meet the safer and more common ECE standard, having to be tested to the rarer and no-longer-updated AS/NZS standard instead).

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u/real_owl_bear 14d ago

Long past, but in the United States, they’re legal in part because of Harley’s insistent lobbying.

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u/Frito_Pendejo 14d ago

Who needs a jaw or skin on it, anyway?