This is because head-on collisions minimize the effect of the loudness of your exhaust pipes, for obvious scientific reasons, which is your exhaust pipes are pointed behind you. The main reason why its a myth is because most motorcycle wrecks do not occur where a motorist is striking the biker from the rear. What they found was no, it is an absolute myth, and the reason is interesting. What do you think? Type in your responses in the comments section below.What Do Studies Say About The “Loud Pipes Save Lives” Motto?īeing that I am a motorcycle accident attorney, I found a study that studied this phrase and whether the loudness of the pipes, exhaust pipes of the bike, lead and correlated to less motorcycle wreck events.
It can even be considered a danger because you will not have time to adapt to the new reaction of the driver.” So we consider that noise is not a warning for the car driver. The driver of the car cannot hear a motorcycle if it is more than 33 feet behind the car, and as it gets closer than 33 feet to the car “even if the car driver hears you, it is too late to react safely. The conclusion of the study specifically says that the assumption “loud pipes save lives” is false.
“Car sound isolation in front is better than sound isolation from the side.” The result? At 50 feet behind the car, “none of the motorcycles in the test can be heard inside the car.” At 33 feet behind the car, “even the noisiest motorcycles tested can hardly be heard inside the car.” With the motorcycles’ front wheel next to the car’s rear wheel, one of the motorcycles can be heard inside the car and three motorcycles can almost be heard but, “unfortunately it is too late to be safe.” With the bikes 13 feet in front of the car the motorcycles cannot be heard. There does not appear to be any traffic visible to affect the sounds recorded. It was not possible to replicate the tests while both motorcycle and car were moving, so the tests were done statically on a quiet side street lined with large apartment buildings. The idea was to see how much noise from motorcycle exhaust pipes actually reaches the ears of car drivers. The study was undertaken by the Association for the Development of Motorcycling in Romania, in conjunction with the Department of Road Vehicles at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest together with the Netherlands-based noise emissions specialist Enviro Consult. But the defense of the loud-pipers has always been that, “Loud pipes save lives.” A recent scientific study says no, loud pipes don’t save lives (but it does not address the question of whether loud pipes annoy anybody). “That’s the sound of freedom, boy!” Others find them as pleasant to hear as a two-stroke leaf blower right outside the window.
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