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Originally Posted by pwd72s
Loud pipes save lives.
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No, they don't. They just annoy people and turn bikers into fags (south park reference, nothing to do with homosexuals).
People who operate vehicles, whether cars, motorcycles, or bicycles, have eyes. They are supposed to pay attention, to look.
Lots of deaf drivers out there, and they aren't running into folks left and right. No blind drivers though, go figure.
No, if someone needs to hear another vehicle coming in order to avoid it, they are just Darwin recipients awaiting their turn.
Odds are it had more to do with a bicycle rider's BS sense of entitlement and smugness that got him into trouble, thinking because he's saving the world it belongs to him now. Either that or his "gender confused" cycling outfit was riding up and distracted him
