Specifically big bore twins with straight pipes and very little silencing. Every single one of the fuckers just HAS to blip the throttle to attract attention. "Look at MEEE, I'm still a man! Don't write me off yet!".
The bastard things are stupidly and unnecessarily noisy to start with, but that's not enough for Mr Mid-Life-Crisis. Nooo... he can't just ride in a straight line with a steady throttle, he has to blip it to announce to everyone that he's there with an ear-splitting blast of 1200cc of never-actually-used power with the clutch in.
Fucking tools. You don't see that behaviour from proper bikers on proper bikes, even if they are middle aged.
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
There is a good argument for blipping the throttle, which is that people tune out a sound if it is the same pitch and fail to tell the direction of it.
It is why emergency services have sirens that are more than one pitch- you can more easily locate them.
Blipping the throttle when filtering is smart because it alerts people that you are coming up from behind (oo-err missus).
I agree that some people do it just to be knobs.
The real issue here is Emp is just grumpy because he lacks the balls to get back on a bike.
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Joking aside, now I'm 48 I get the 'mid life crisis' accusations aimed at me from time to time and I've been riding since the age of 13. I still can't resist hitting the redline in a tunnel though.
It is true that you have a greater likelihood of being killed on a bike than in a car but also most motorcyclists don't die on a bike.
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I always love the mid life crisis digs at people in a nice car on a nice bike, it's more than likely the first time in their life they can afford such a luxury item now kids have grown up, mortgage is paid etc.
You could spend your life decreasing your odds of death, don't smoke, don't drink, don't eat red meat, don't cross the road, don't leave the house even, in the end you still die.
Each person is different, but you have to decide at what point your life has a chance of being longer but missing the enjoyment of being alive
I had 2 close friends who died at the ages of 35 and 41 of cancer and of a brain tumour. This (often shit) life flashes by and I'm all for seizing the day.
The 27x thing is only significant when you know how likely you are to die in a car accident.
If it is 1 in 1,000,000 then the chance of dying in a motorcycle accident is 27 in 1,000,000.
I'll take that- it is still pretty unlikely.
If it is 1/1000 then on a bike then it is 27/1000- or 2.7%.
The other thing is you can do an awful lot to mitigate your own risk by not doing stupid stuff- blind overtakes, ignoring maintenance, riding with group of bikers who take risks.
You can avoid riding up the arse of cars and you can filter at a reasonable speed so you aren't rear ended by someone on their phone.
You can slow down in the wet and not ride when it is below 3 degrees.
The statistics include people who do all this stuff.
If you aren't one of them then you have a better than average chance of not dying.
You can do advanced riding qualifications too.
The 'you have to worry about other people' thing is a bit of a myth too- well, you DO have to worry about other people but there are ways of avoiding accidents as well, no matter what someone else does.
It is called riding defensively.
When I ride I am always expecting drivers to do dumb things.
They mostly don't but when they do I know I have it covered.
Could something still happen?
Sure, but that its true of anything.
The other point is I can't imagine being the sort of person who doesn't do what they want because of fear.
I'd be curious to see the mortality statistics for alcohol compared to motorcycling though.
I don't drink (not because of the risk of death, just because I don't like it) but I do ride.
Would be interesting to compare the mortality statistics of someone who doesn't ride a bike but does drink.
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you shouldn't make those kind of comments - some MC brothers might take offence unless you had the nerve to go down to your local clubhouse and voice them . Never mind the older men ... I hear some of the younger Prospects tend to get easily excited by that kind of talk but I wouldn't know myself.
So I will keep blipping the throttle on my 1700 parallel twin just to remind people of my presence, though if I detect a whiff of obliviousness I will also sound the VERY loud horn. I will eventually fit louder exhaust pipes too...
I don't believe the bollocks about blipping the throttle to make others aware that you are there for safety reasons. I rode bikes for twenty years and if I ever needed to make anyone aware like that. I used my horn; the device fitted specifically for that one purpose. Had I ridden something that could break windows at tickover, I'd still have used my horn. Jesus, these twins are so loud at gentle throttle openings you'd have to be deaf AND wearing headphones not to be aware there was a bloke with too much money and a yearning for his youth in your vicinity. No need to blip the throttle at all - unless it's to "show off".
The incident that sparked me to rant was some tool this afternoon doing it on a straight road doing 30. No other cars, no junctions, just a little dick with a loud bike who wanted some attention.
Aren't there laws on noise ? There used to be.
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