Faulty logic appears to be a forte.

Why should I wait? Do you know what an air cooled engine is? I incur more risk in driving specifically for the benefits of agility and compactness.

I’m sorry that my ability to go past you makes you upset, but again, I’m exposing myself to significantly more danger specifically for the benefits including the ability to not be stopped by the car in front of me, much higher mpgs, lower cost of ownership, etc.

Do you get mad at bicycles because they don’t operate the same as cars? I pass you in the bike lane all the time on my bicycle.

No thanks, citation-free dingus.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/05/29/motorcycle-lanesplitting-report/

Lol ah you got me with your creativity again. Oh it hurts.

Ah man. I hate to break it to you, but your last attempt at a girlfriend was right about you before she left. The lacking creativity and energy thing.

Good luck to you.

Cool. Still think you’re boring, only had noise to comment about. Cheers.

Nah man, I absolutely don’t think that’s the case, not is that the case for any fellow city folk. My previous post should have made that real clear. We got all walks of life walking and talking, and a lot of us travel too. We see what we have, and what’s out there as well.

One thing you won’t see me doing is talking shit on other people’s home towns, because that’s low class and low quality thinking. I don’t particularly like small towns or suburbs for social reasons, some people do. That’s ok.

Wake up, do something interesting for a change.

Certainly better than the alternative. Take care now! 🤭

You’re partially correct, older bikes didn’t have catalytic converters. Compliance with Euro 5 means all new models past… 2018 I think, must have one equipped.

As for noise, 75db is louder than a modern car, but we don’t have room onboard to dissipate a lot of the sound energy like a car’s long, standing-wave tuned exhaust does.

I don’t have a car, just a bicycle and motorcycle. I like them both, though I trust my bicycle more when there’s a blizzard.

P.s. I also like fortnine videos, he’s mostly correct (though dead wrong about physicists being the grownup version of engineers) but look at the data for yourself. Keep in mind all these values are far, far lower than they used to be. We shouldn’t stop striving for better, but we should keep things in perspective too: https://www.bts.gov/content/estimated-national-average-vehicle-emissions-rates-vehicle-vehicle-type-using-gasoline-and

It’s the only place I know where people have argued with each other on how to best help a tourist out.

Look, this is a city where you have wealthy business owners and blue collar folk living across the street from one another, literary geniuses and creatives living next door to programmers and engineers… the people who live and thrive here are makers and doers, in every avenue of human adventure we can yet think of.

That a bit of noise is all it takes to get you to miss how wonderfully unique this situation is, of all walks of life talking, reading, eating and living with each other, is a damning indictment of how tough you actually are, and how much you bring to the table.

Can’t handle it? Wahh.

E: Each downvote on this comment is an admission that you, the downvoter, are similarly rigid. Prove me wrong.

I and most other people are riding around on stock engines with stock exhausts. Those confirm to stricter quiet standards in Japan than anywhere in the US.

To your second point, modern car engines have efficiency gains due to important innovations like direct fuel injection, whereas most motorcycles are stuck with port injection, a limitation currently forced by the fear of having a very high pressure fuel pump between rider’s legs…

In spite of that, total bike emissions are lower for the same distance vs a car, we’re not lugging an entire chassis, air conditioning etc. The result is that even carbureted bikes from the 80s could go 55-60mpg. Bikes also have much lower engine displacement, your v6 2L has about 2000 cm^3 of air and fuel burned per revolution, whereas most motorcycles are in the 6-800 cm^3 range, per rev.

Manufacturers could make them quieter, but that adds both weight and cost, more of one if you adjust the other. I look forward to electric bikes with great range, as I don’t really do more than 350 miles on my long trips unless I’m late for something.

E: looks like Japan relaxed their standards since 2013, per some internal documentation, see slide 9 for harmonized requirements. Still quiet, all things considered.

Some morons like to gamble, most of us don’t because of how low (aka zero) reward is vs risk.

But you’ll always remember the people in life making the insane choices vs the regular folk.

As do I, though mainly for headings. Body text is something thin and screen legible as most of my docs are not printed.

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Well aware. Working on remedying that, section 1252 needs amending.

Fucking shitass McDonnell execs 😑

Aww, someone’s mad they got stuck in traffic while the bike carefully rolled past. Aww 🤭

It’s cuz most of us aren’t thin skinned piss-babies. Bit of noise in a very loud city, shut the fuck up and deal.

I like how you think.

How the hell were the original rfc designers so creative as to result in such a flexible system?? It’s gets crazier the more you look at it.

Mmm… That doesn’t seem right, it’s usually gotta be fully expanded to at least a particular A record/MX.

How would you tie the tld itself to an MX?