The benefit of rain

Noise…thanks for less

It has been a cold and wet fall here and though it has been tough on harvests and hay making, (rain, rain, rain) it has reduced the amount of needless noise from the beer belly motorcycle tourists.

Sure was nice back in the old days when you could set outside on a warm fall evening and enjoy the peace and quiet in every direction. Now some fellow or gang of fellows (most are afraid to ride alone) think they are helping us enjoy our life by echoing streams of motor noise off the surrounding hills as they thunder past on their way to nowhere.

Lots of theories are out there as to why noise is such an important part of motorcycling.

A) It gives the cycle more power: as if 80 MPH wasn’t enough.
B) The more noise it makes, the more virile the driver is….like the size of the noise is the size of the tool? Right?
C) The amount of noise covers up the lack of maleness….if you can’t , just make a lot of noise and no one will notice. More likely right. Get out the magic blue pills!
D) Your Mommy and Daddy liked your brothers and sisters better than you, so you never got any good toys, and now you want everyone to know that you finally bought your own toy.
E) You think that fat old gal behind you likes noise. Pssst, she’s wearing earplugs!
F) You are just an inconsiderate jerk.


Kinda like the truck driver that pulls the Jake Brake all the way down the hill into town.
LOOK at me!!!! See me!!! WOW!!! I’m driving a big big truck! no teeth, an 8th grade diploma and living in a 12’ wide with plywood windows.
We all know he doesn’t own the truck. Heck he probably doesn’t even own a ’94 Neon.

Rain has it blessings.

Very well said, I like it!!!

Granted I made my share of noise in my day but it was either "KERKER" style or a small block with headers and dual straights. What p!sses me off is how we were always targeted by law enforcement for making noise. Now a group of "bikers" can roll past a cop, tweek the throttle at them and the cops just wave like they are watching a parade. Are they a) too afraid or b) trying to boost the new fad by just letting them go? Funny thing is most of them wann-be's would probly wet their seat if Johnny pulled out.

Amen to that.Scott

You forgot the most important part of these bozos is that they think they can get laid whenever wherever. And if they do get laid the woman (broad) has more fingers then teeth. And of course they have a large spare tire hanging out over the big belt buckle.

I agree with the motorcycle part but I don't understand the truck part. I was a heavy hauler for two years and I used my Jake brake pretty much all the time. Sometimes at the top of a hill that I had never been down before I would come to almost a stop in order to get into a low gear so as to have adequate engine braking, and still have to use my wheel brakes hard. The toughest downhill situation that I ever encountered was while working under the direction of state and FEMA officials that were insisting on full legal loads and minimal delays. Once you start down a big hill you are committed. You can't get into a lower gear and you can't stop and get a cool set of brakes and you don't get a second chance unless there is a run-away truck ramp there. So is there a run-away truck ramp on that hill by your house? or are you just wishing for run-away trucks to go hurtling through your town?

Harleys appear to be our "sacred cow" in WI. Made in America, not any more.

Cops need to start doing their job. Unforunately they don't think they can win their case in court because they don't have a decimeter to record a violation and the lawyers can eat their lunch.

Remember Smokey and the Bandit? Jerry Reed drove over the Bikes. He said it took a week to fix the truck. It was an entertaining moment.
SDE

It is one thing to use a Jake brake to drive a truck safely down a hill. It is another to rattle the windows every time you drive through town just to draw attention to yourself. Do you really need a Jake brake to stop for a red light in gently rolling terrain, and in a town you drive through frequently?