Possibly a grumpy old man rant but only aimed at very specific bikes.

I live on a fairly busy A road which obviously means a lot of traffic noise, I knew this when I moved here and accept it. Being quite rural all sorts of traffic passes our house, cars, lorries, tractor, motorbikes etc.

The bain of my life is Harley Davidsons (and possibly similar V twin bikes) the noise the damned things make is unbelievable. You can hear them from half a mile away.

I have a few friends with sports bike who are not legally allowed to use "race cans" on their bikes due the noise, I simply don't understand how Harleys are allowed to come out of the showroom with nothing more than a piece of chrome pipe for an exhaust when race exhausts are illegal? At least a sports bike is fast so you're not subjected to what (comparatively little) noise they make for very long whereas Harleys don't seem capable of more than 40mph.

Rant over