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[etrautmann]

I absolutely detest Harley's and other loud motorcycles and don't understand why there are no restrictions on vehicular noise. Why do certain individuals get to impose their absurdly loud vrooms on everyone else just because they want to? It's such a trivially stupid negative externality that has no reason to exist.

[alonmower → etrautmann]

There are. They can and should be ticketed if they remove their mufflers or put in exhausts above the legal limit but lots of them DGAF

[sp332 → etrautmann]

Harley Davidson was held sued by the EPA for selling aftermarket "offroad-only" parts for customers' daily drivers. https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...

[angry_octet → etrautmann]

This is the whole point of riding around on a vibrating sex toy -- to be obnoxious to everyone else, to shout 'look at me'.