03-08-2014, 09:58 PM
I spent the night at a friends house in Daytona during Bike Week a few years ago. He was right on the river, and I was up at dawn enjoying the quiet, the birds. As the morning went on, a din of motorcycle noise began to rise until it was as thick as a summer fog. I asked my host and a few other people what they thought about it, and without exception they said they were happy to have the tourists in town spending money.
Personally I've reached a point where loud pipes don't appeal to me like they used to. But you know that those guys on their Hawgs aren't going to enjoy themselves if they can't make a racket. Is it REALLY that intrusive on anyone's life to have a loud bike go by from time to time? If Daytona can put up with thousands of them for weeks at a time, I have to think the rest of us can.
Personally I've reached a point where loud pipes don't appeal to me like they used to. But you know that those guys on their Hawgs aren't going to enjoy themselves if they can't make a racket. Is it REALLY that intrusive on anyone's life to have a loud bike go by from time to time? If Daytona can put up with thousands of them for weeks at a time, I have to think the rest of us can.