Can Loud Pipes Kill?
December 20, 2009
If you ride a motorcycle, it is important to understand the risks. By understanding the risks of riding a motorcycle, bikers have a chance to formulate ways to mitigate the dangerous associated with those risks.
Loud motorcycle pipes have been one of the tactics that bikers have used to become more visible to motorists. The increased noise of loud pipes help motorists sense bikers as they are riding down the road. This fact helped coin the phrase, loud pipes save lives. While there is very little data to support this claim, it makes sense.
Loud pipes however, do have a few risks. The most common is hearing problems. Another risk is getting shot in the face by a neighbor who hates all the noise.
Last year in Jeffersonville, IN two neighbors got into an altercation over the loud motorcycle pipes. The altercation escalated to a point where the motorcycle owner was shot in the face by the annoyed neighbor. Now, the shooter faces an attempted murder and aggravated assault charges.
This is an extreme case but punctuates the point that loud pipes can be annoying to others. If you have loud pipes, try to be sensitive to your neighbors who don’t ride motorcycles or who don’t like getting woken up to the sound of Rinehart Exhaust or Screaming Eagles at 3 A.M.
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