Funny thing,
noise from bikes. While too loud is rapidly becoming unacceptable, so is too
quiet. In fact, the latter is now subject to the law, with the EU requiring
new electric vehicles to be fitted with noise emitters. It’ll be the same here,
no doubt. I’ve long been against loud bikes, but simply on the grounds
that it’s far better for a copper standing at the roadside to think, “What was
that"? as you sail on by, rather than, “What’s this"? as you
approach. That was true even back in the days when an R80 hadn’t a hope in hell
of catching an RD350.
