question for bikers

I have a loud exhaust on my bike. I love hearing the engine rev. I rev when I go through tunnels or under bridges. I blip when I shift down which causes drivers not paying attention to get a fright. I rev at idiots playing on their cellphones and idiots who look at you in their mirrors and try to block you off while lane splitting.
 
maumau said:
When you overtake a car and draw level with the driver, if you do that loud revving thing do you take your eyes off the road to see if the driver gets a fright?

Or do you just know/hope?
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I don't associate with the term "biker" and rather consider myself a motorcyclist, but I'll answer your question regardless.

Only time I will ever rev at someone is if their tyres are touching the white line because that tells me they don't know where they are in the world, can't drive, or are purposely blocking me.

Even then it's because I can't get to the hooter instead and even so it will be a few thousand revs and nowhere near the rev limiter which I almost never hit while on the road.

Taking eyes off the road is not an option. I'll only ever be a **** if a car was being a **** first.

Drake2007 said:
I have another question.

When you bikers start your bike, why do you rev the *** out of it?
Is it that the bike is a POS and you have to rev it so it doesn't stall or what?

ok that was 2.
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That's "biker" mentality. I never ever rev my bike when starting it, not only are you a **** but it's bad for your bike. Same applies to my car.

What I especially don't get are the okes revving the bike before switching it off and then wondering why it struggles to start the next morning.

Maybe that's the POS problem? They revved it so much before killing it the night before that it's basically flooded and now struggles to start the next morning.

It's the same mentality as the CitiGolf okes who "service" their car by revving it endlessly.
 
Ridolfc said:
I have a loud exhaust on my bike. I love hearing the engine rev. I rev when I go through tunnels or under bridges. I blip when I shift down which causes drivers not paying attention to get a fright. I rev at idiots playing on their cellphones and idiots who look at you in their mirrors and try to block you off while lane splitting.
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Anyone who can ride properly should be blipping on the downshift.

Even so it should be virtually imperceptible to people around them.

That being said I do stay in a lower gear for longer in the hope that people hear me, since they never seem to see me.
 
I dont think that somebody that has never been on a big bike can ever understand how nice it feels when you just blip the throttle sometimes.. just for fun.
 
Tux said:
I dont think that somebody that has never been on a big bike can ever understand how nice it feels when you just blip the throttle sometimes.. just for fun.
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For sure.

But you do that when on the open road by yourself.

No need to be a **** in traffic. It's not like we don't know these things are pretty loud.
 
SauRoNZA said:
For sure.

But you do that when on the open road by yourself.

No need to be a **** in traffic. It's not like we don't know these things are pretty loud.
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Stop paying attention to your phone or the blonde in the mini 2 cars over and get a wee bit more situational awareness. You wont get such a skrik when I go past then.

BTW, do you drive a german car?
 
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