On or around Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:45:08 +0000, beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:
all good stuff. I wonder what the PTB would say if we did a bit of self-policing on the nefrubyrf, presuming we could catch and identify 'em...
ferexample, people with excessively noisy vehicles, we could add 2Kg of sugar to the fuel tank (does that still work? it's highly traditional) or similar. That should make them quieter, and by the time they've got it sorted and got home they might have had time to think...
The majority of off-road bikes I see, on or off road, are excessively noisy
- 2-strokes are more obvious but that's partly 'cos they make a more irritating noise. Perhaps what we need is to carry 2 lump hammers, then we could flatten the ends of too-noisy exhaust systems to reduce the noise.
That video of the bunch of bikes made this point as well: you couldn't hear what was being said until the engines had been shut down. Engines at idle should be quiet enough, even a bunch of them, to be able to have conversations beside, and in off-roading for almost all the time there's no need for excessive right boot or wrist action - the limiting factor is almost always the grip of the tyres and in any sort of slippery going that's only going to be enough to transmit about 20 BHP.
of course, if we did resort to sabotage etc. to stop the nefrubyrf, then it's entirely likely that we'd all end up in dock and they'd get off scot-free.