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ScooterWolf

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Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« on: September 14, 2010, 05:35:44 PM »
California is poised to pass a law aimed at keeping excessively loud motorcycles quieter. Many motorcycle riders are protesting under the adage "Loud pipes save lives!"

Is it true?

Or is this the protest of bad riders?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/08/motorcycle-noise.html

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 09:37:20 PM »
I love LOUD pipes, LOVE em. Especially on a 2t Vespa.  But loud pipes dont save lives. Let a Harley pass you , you hear the pipes after they pass not before. And with loud sound systems in cars most people barely hear emergency sirens. Loud colors save lives.
Just my baseless opinion.
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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 09:42:56 PM »
Loud colors save lives.

..more so than loud pipes for sure...

..need to be seen!!!
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ScooterWolf

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2010, 12:05:47 AM »
I kind of like my hearing, so I've never seen the appeal. I agree. i wear a bright red windbreaker vest.
I'm waiting for a Corazzo jacket that I've ordered to come in from a local scooter shop. It has a vertical
reflective strip and armor on the shoulders and spine.

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oswaldters

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2010, 12:07:50 AM »
Loud colors save lives.

So we're back to the hot pink sweater thing again?
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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2010, 12:09:31 AM »
..just HAD to go there didn y'......
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oswaldters

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2010, 12:10:54 AM »
I feel so ashamed....
« Last Edit: September 15, 2010, 01:03:47 AM by oswaldters »
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ScooterWolf

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2010, 12:33:39 AM »
I have no problem when my wife wears one. Yummy! My scooter's all black. So is my helmet. I need some kind of color on me, but hot pink's not my choice.

Hey, has anyone seen these jackets before?

http://www.corazzo.net/mens-jackets

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2010, 12:35:51 AM »
...coooooll...ScooterWolf..

..i like the "Bomber"...

..i got long arms...lol..
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Rianna

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2010, 12:37:40 AM »
thank you oswaldters, u saved me the trouble, lol
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oswaldters

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2010, 12:39:22 AM »
As long as Word doesn't report me to the moderator...
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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2010, 12:41:23 AM »
See...I clicked the women's jackets and the first one was pink.  ;)

Maybe it means guys get noticed more than girls so they don't need it???

Those are nice jackets, though.
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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2010, 12:42:40 AM »
..what happens in th forum...stays in th forum...

 ;)
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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2010, 12:44:40 AM »
I clicked the women's jackets and the first one was pink

..here y go os........
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oswaldters

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Re: Do Loud Pipes Save Lives?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2010, 12:49:01 AM »
...and the first one was pink

What are the odds of that?  Make you wonder...
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