I’m interested in getting an electric motorcycle, but something I’ve been wondering:
ICE motorcycles can be loud, and that can act as a safety feature, especially when lane splitting. I’m thinking about Los Angeles, where motorcycles regularly weave through bumper-to-bumper car traffic. The noise they make helps prevent riders from getting accidentally doored.
Do electric motorcycles have any kind of artificial noise maker to achieve the same thing? Or does anyone sell a device that does this?
Note that I’m not talking about generic speakers, because
- I don’t want to have to blast music all the time just for safety, and
- most speaker kits are pointed BACK at the driver, not FORWARD towards traffic.
Anyone know the answer?
Most exhaust pipes are pointed BACK. if loud pipes actually helped in any significant amount, they’d point them forwards.
Always ride as if invisible, sound deadening in cars is getting better anyways.
And then there are the assholes who remove the dampening parts out of the exhaust so they can hear their bike roaring even when they are riding fast…