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Listening Experiment for Electric Motorcycle Sounds

If the pedestrian and the bus can see each other, it obviates noise anyway. Noise is for when lines of sight are broken and/or someone visually impaired needs to avoid getting run over

Nah man. Your sight can be easily distracted, but you will never overhear the noise of a big vehicle.
 
This is why as a motorcyclist you assume your safety is solely up to you, and a pedestrian should do the same.
Agreed. I have ridden motorcycles for over 40 years on open roads. I shall never outsource my safety to being "heard" and even being *seen*.
You have too, to survive.
Loud pipes may help, loud clothing may help, but in no way are a substitute for due diligence.
Go to sleep in a cage and you get a dented fender,
Go to sleep on a scoot and you get a lot of pain in the very least.
 
Because it's considerate to EMTs and other first responders if you take steps to avoid letting the idiots splatter themselves all over the road. Someone has to clean it up, after all. Not being facetious, a person can only see so much gore in their line of work before it takes its toll. It's only fair to minimize it.
Than get rid of motorbikes.
 
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You have too, to survive.
Loud pipes may help, loud clothing may help, but in no way are a substitute for due diligence.
Go to sleep in a cage and you get a dented fender,
Go to sleep on a scoot and you get a lot of pain in the very least.
I commuted on a bicycle in a city for a long time, and the same deal applies. There's no substitute for paying very good g-d attention to your surroundings if you want to make it home in one piece.
 
I commuted on a bicycle in a city for a long time, and the same deal applies. There's no substitute for paying very good g-d attention to your surroundings if you want to make it home in one piece.
Yep, same deal. If you want to survive on 2 wheels in traffic, it's up to the rider.
The cagers are out to get ya. ;)
 
Not totally necessary, you can keep the bodies intact by keeping speeds reasonable and requiring good protective gear.
These days you might need the same protective gear MotoGP riders use. Which I don't think you can even buy, not all of it anyway. I also think if I need something like that I'd rather just drive an open top car.
 
These days you might need the same protective gear MotoGP riders use. Which I don't think you can even buy, not all of it anyway. I also think if I need something like that I'd rather just drive an open top car.
I meant it literally... you may not live through a crash, but to not overburden the EMTs dealing with accidents, we should at least try to keep people in one piece... again, literally.
 
I meant it literally... you may not live through a crash, but to not overburden the EMTs dealing with accidents, we should at least try to keep people in one piece... again, literally.
So helmets, good boots, carbon fiber reinforced pants, jackets and gloves or good thick leather? Even with that and reasonable speeds most serious accidents are from cars hitting bikes, and the bike rider is just not going to do well in that exchange.
 
You missed my point. There's a reason ER doctors call them donorcycles.
Two wheeled vehicles will never go away. They are actually likely to be more prevalent. Particularly in cities. Owned one car in my 58 years because I have always lived in cities. Primarily city traffic dictates my moto use. Plus it's fun. Personally I think electric motos should make a distinct sound for pedestrian safety. Nothing overly loud. I find the highest risk are tourists who look the wrong way before stepping off the sidewalk. (I live in Edinburgh where we have lots of tourists and we drive on the left.) I am very interested in the OPs findings if this thread actually takes off as it was intended.
Plus :To those who are anti two wheels - you just stay in your cars, stuck in traffic, getting bored out of your minds, and wasting a high percentage of your time on this planet.
Two wheeled EVs are definitely a part of the future for cross town traffic navigation.
(Cue: Hendrix track.)
 
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Two wheeled vehicles will never go away. They are actually likely to be more prevalent. Particularly in cities. Owned one car in my 58 years because I have always lived in cities. Primarily city traffic dictates my moto use. Plus it's fun. Personally I think electric motos should make a distinct sound for pedestrian safety. Nothing overly loud. I find the highest risk are tourists who look the wrong way before stepping off the sidewalk. (I live in Edinburgh where we have lots of tourists and we drive on the left.) I am very interested in the OPs findings if this thread actually takes off as it was intended.
Plus :To those who are anti two wheels - you just stay in your cars, stuck in traffic, getting bored out of your minds, and wasting a high percentage of your time on this planet.
Two wheeled EVs are definitely a part of the future for cross town traffic navigation.
(Cue: Hendrix track.)
Come on now, even Hendrix sang:
Tire tracks all across your back
I can, I can see you had your fun
 
Yep, same deal. If you want to survive on 2 wheels in traffic, it's up to the rider.
The cagers are out to get ya. ;)
The cagers are out to get ya. (Whether they know it or not! The last one that got me said "It was as if you fell from the sky, I did not see you."
I was wearing an international florescent yellow shirt and on a very bright blue 175 cc scooter.
Had I been on any type of real motorcycle (even a 1971 Honda CL 175, instead of a small wheeled scooter), I could have avoided the accident & not flown over her hood.
 
You missed my point. There's a reason ER doctors call them donorcycles.
No one has ever claimed motorcycling isn't a dangerous sport so like I said,
If your scared, go to church instead.
 
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No one has ever claimed motorcycling isn't a dangerous sport so like I said,
If your scared, go to church instead.
You still didn't get me. I was replying to " lets help EMTs out" And how is commuting a sport, and why should it be dangerous?
 
“Crosstown Traffic”, track 3 to Electric Ladyland, uses wordplay and fast/slow innuendos to compare the girl Hendrix is chasing to literal traffic.
Tire tracks across your back had everything to do with a woman & not anything to do with actual traffic.
You don't think I knew that? I was thinking more of chasing a girl being more dangerous than traffic.
 
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