Loud and Notorious Pipes Stop Motorcycle Accidents
So When Is Loud “Too Loud”? The “Loud Pipes Save Lives” theory argues that auditory conspicuity compensates for a motorcycle’s smaller visual profile. However, safety experts and physicists point to two major flaws in this logic: Physics of Sound Directionality: Exhaust pipes point backward. At cruising speeds, a motorcycle is literally leaving its sound behind.…