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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by augstein on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:26PM (#22577408)
> Motorbikes are the worst offender here. Sound limitations should be a lot stricter than they are

Haven’t given that much thought until now, but I guess you are completely right. One person driving a loud motorcycle or car through a dense city at night, can potentially disturb/wake up hundreds of people or more.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by StavrosK on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:57PM (#22577700)
And the problem is that they put loud mufflers on purpose. The stock mufflers aren't very noisy, or at least they're as silent as a 16k RPM engine can be.
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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by ska on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:06PM (#22577774)
Well the harleys are some of the worst offenders here, even on stock pipes. RPM isn't really an issue there.
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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by StavrosK on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:08PM (#22577799)
Yeah but Harleys' main selling point is literally "the stock exhaust is distinctively annoying".
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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by mikeyouse on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:55PM (#22577675)
They can and they do - I live in SF and it happens constantly. Especially with all the shitty cars with hypersensitive car alarms, so you get the double impact of motorcycles obnoxiously roaring by at 120db and then a few minutes of car alarms. Makes me nearly homicidal to realize how selfish people can be.
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