07-11-2019, 01:01 PM
(07-11-2019, 07:18 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote:That’s a great topic for a winter thread, Stichill.
As I rode to Sydney the other day, the temperature was increasing and I stopped to remove a layer of gear. I pulled back into the traffic and was waiting at some traffic lights. A fore-and-aft twin Yamaha—probably about a 250—pulled up beside me. The rider, a young fella, dressed in a mean looking jacket and open-face helmet with one of those tea-towel thingies that stop you swallowing flies around the lower part of his face, nodded at me and gave the throttle a couple of blips. He’d clearly removed every sound dampening mechanism from his pipe and it gave a truly mighty roar. The older folk in the car next to me smiled and shook their heads. I think someone in a truck or delivery van with a window open must have laughed, because the lad gave a couple more generous blips followed by a generous twist of his wrist, producing an ear splitting noise.
No one died. I guess one of the older folk in the car next to me was about to have a heart attack or a burst aneurysm or something and the lad was saving them. Generous really.
He followed the CB as I made a stately progress down the highway and was still alive when last sighted.
I guess loud pipes must work.
