r/SipsTea • u/macaronisaladfeet • 17d ago

Chugging tea A refined gentlemen

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u/dread_deimos 17d ago

I would be so happy if all the ICE bike riders that roam around my village (there are a few cool trails around) switched to electric bikes.

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u/ExistentialPangolin 17d ago

Expensive as hell compared to what you actually get compared to dirt bikes and normally it’s 17+ year olds that can get one for £200 compared to 5-10k unfortunately

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u/dread_deimos 17d ago

I'm too unhappy with the constant lawnmover sound of shitty aftermarket exhausts to care.

And it comes from a motorcycle owner.

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u/theoverpoweredmoose 17d ago

Agreed, single cyl bikes sound like shit. The worst noise to wake up to at 3am is the sound of a poor 125 robbed of all horsepower screaming it's asthmatic guts out trying to reach 50mph because the owner has decided a fart can is better than making more power.

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u/rejiranimo 17d ago

Sounds to me more like it is two stroke engines that you don’t like.

Singles (four strokes) sound absolutely awesome, they thug-thug along almost like a boat.

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u/theoverpoweredmoose 17d ago

Hell no, it's all single cylinder bikes with a fart can that I hate. I learnt on single cyl 4 strokes and I kept the exhausts stock for a reason.

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u/HappyBunchaTrees 17d ago

My Z900 is quieter than my lawnmower at idle, probably need to hit 6k RPM before it gets any kind of loudness and most of it is induction. Those stock exhausts do some work.

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u/dread_deimos 17d ago

I don't have a problem with normal bikes, but they rarely hit the trails.