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Are we killing our own sport?
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[QUOTE="mox69, post: 1194361, member: 76391"] Street bikes really cannot be "as loud as they want." Almost all cities have noise ordances. The police in that town will probably stop you if you ride through with your noisy street bike. Also remember that even though street bikes have loud pipes, its not a whole lot different from a semi truck barreling down the road. You only hear the loud pipes for 15-20 seconds as they drive by. MX bikes usually ride in a small area, within a constant distance. They also are ridden in the middle of nowhere a lot of times. People expect a loud harley , semi , helicopter , airplane, jackhammer, dump truck, rap music, etc. while in an urban setting. They don't expect these things while horse back riding, camping, hiking, taking a crap, etc in the middle of the forest. Also don't forgot about the negative stereotypes people already have about us. Some old man drove up to my cabin just last saturday and started complaining that "I was ripping up the town roads and doing donughts" He went on and on about how its illegal to ride that thing and the he graded the roads, etc. He also told me about some rider on "yellow bike" he chased off his "sand pit" just a few days ago. He took my U-turn on a dead end minimum maintenance road for a donut somehow I guess. Thank god I don't own a suzuki or I think he would have called the sheriff. This guy was obviously lumping me into the rest of the r-tards who he had to chase off his private property. After I informed him that I had a motorcycle licence, the bike was fully registered with the DNR and that I was just as legal as the 30 four wheelers that run up and down the road all day he got a bit quiter. I apoligized 15 times for "ripping up the road" and told him I would be more careful. I have no other way to get to the 1 trail we have left besides driving carefully down this road. My tracks had completely dissappeared when it rained the next day, but the point is he already stereotyped me as a jackass dirtbiker, and will probably continue to lump me into the group. [/QUOTE]
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