Why are motorcycles so loud (especially choppers)? Isn’t there anything can be done with their mufflers?
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There are federal and state regulations as to how loud a motorcycle can be.
Some riders buy mufflers that are intentionally designed to be louder than that limit.
Riders with loud mufflers can be ticketed, or their motorcycles impounded. But they’re not.
Growing up in Milwaukee, we could not keep the windows open because of the hogs going by with their 130dB open exhausts at bar time. Bit Milwaukee would never enforce noise ordinances against Harleys. Never.
Enforce the existing laws, and there would not be a problem.
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