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acotrel
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Victoria
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 Posted - 03 Jan 2014 : 08:39:54 AM
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I think one of the worst things about old racing bikes happens when controlling bodies pander to the noise laws. Historic racing is about the nostalgia kick and tourism. Fitting a muffler to a manx is the ultimate in stupidity. You go to historic race meetings for the experience, the noise is part of it.
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JasonL
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Victoria
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Posted - 03 Jan 2014 : 7:21:14 PM
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SORRY WHAT WERE YOU SAYING???!!! I can't hear you, I'm deaf from being around old bikes....
There is a point when historic bikes are ridiculously loud though. On many occasions, Island Classic last year sticks out where we were pitted next to a BMW sidecar on one side and some...I forget what they were now...Aermacchi's perhaps? They were unnecessarily loud. Industrial deafness loud. I'm with you on bikes not being stifled, sounding decent and loud enough, but there are thresholds and plenty of bikes seem to me to be over that. |
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Patrick
Level 3 Member
Victoria
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Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 7:32:15 PM
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Did not seem to worry the testers in this yarn!
"A friend of mine passed his motorbike riding test on a Manx Norton, it was the only bike of the several he owned at the time that was fully assembled and ready to run when the time came. He explained various things to the examiner beforehand about the high first gear, difficulty starting etc, but he passed anyway. Admittedly said friend is given to tall stories that improve with each telling, but I have no reason to doubt that one, as his long-suffering wife of around 50 years (an ex-Bluebell Girl believe it or not) backs him up, and she rode on the back of the Manx a few times as well. Though probably not while wearing her fishnets and dancing outfit". |
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john
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Victoria
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Posted - 11 Feb 2014 : 1:02:36 PM
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Alan, we are faced with two choices;
Noisy bikes
Tracks closed down around the world because not everybody shares our enthusiasim for noise.
Currently in Europe there are tracks being closed everyweek.
In Queensland a trcack was closed because of complaints from house holders, the land was sold and when the house holders heard about the new use, Factories I believe, They asked for the track back. Work that one out!!
Noise is now an issue we cannot ignore. |
John Daley Sidecar #68
' there are those who do, those who dont do and those who undo. We must lampoon the latter." |
Edited by - john on 12 Feb 2014 11:45:27 AM |
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