Yes but the problem today is people taking it too far, today you can get extra spark plugs and gasoline pump to install on your exhaust to make it pop and spit fire. or a electronic valve before the first muffler so you can exhaust strait from the header more or less.
If you approach bikers on this, they say "its so those stupid car drivers can hear / notice me". but few of them wear high visibility helmets ASO so i doubt it is founded in safety matters, and if you say it must be annoying to listen to that while driving the response is " as a biker you cant hear it",,,,,, and then i go ooooookay
so how are cars in front of you supposed to be able to hear / notice you.
So you are making noise so the cars behind can see you,,,,,,, which i think are probably the smallest of all issues facing a biker in traffic.
TBH i think it is a need to be a rebel,,,,,,, and i totally understand that as a person not too happy to stand in line with other people.
And rebels have in deed often played their game on the expense of other people in some way, i have been in that line too i have to admit.
You could also argue that today, being a really cool guy are so rare it could be a form of rebel too.
Some times i wish i was able to buy one of the factory 120 db Italian sports cars, and then all night drive it up and down the street of where influential people live, cuz for a factory car that's okay, but a modified car can not go past 90 db.
But dont get me wrong i do LOVE the sound of a V8, but i dont need to have my eardrums scream MERCY when i hear it.
I would just love a 572 CUI normal aspirated motor in a nice car, and have it muffled so when i roll buy people think they hear distant thunder, i do not want them to dive for the nearest ditch for cover.
The problem to me also is, if you want to be different, well you dont accomplish that with making your car or bike loud, 90 % of people do that.
And you are not special cuz your entire body are filled with tattoos of cupcakes - hearts with a keyhole in it - skulls and what not generic tattoo stuff, you are just a painted sheep in my book.
Or the people that think cuz they carry a product from the fruit company, that make them a extra trendy and special person, no it make you one of god know how many millions of people carrying a fruit company devise of some sort.
if you want to be a snowflake / special / a rebel, you have to attack the subject different than what most people do.
I am also wondering when electric vehicles are all there is, will people be mounting speakers on their outside to spew V8 sounds when they buzz along.
Though by then i am afraid the LED thing on cars will just go utterly insane if the way countries and the world are run now is also a thing by then.
