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For starters, loud bikes annoy people. Every time you start up to go to work early, or you get back late, you annoy neighbors and locals. So they complain to local law enforcement and/or their local government representatives.
Then we get proposals in state/federal governments about banning bikes from certain places or imposing ridiculous rules about aftermarket exhaust systems or we start getting targetted unfairly by the police for being heard as we ride by.
So maybe a loud exhaust is not immediately dangerous from a traffic perspective, but definitely dangerous to the sport as a whole. We've already seen some proposed laws that are more strict on motorcycle exhausts.
I'm aware that I'm part of the 'problem' because I own an aftermarket exhaust, but I do everything in my power to keep myself in check when I would bug people with noise. Also, my bike is much quieter than those that are running straight pipe or some of the brands of exhaust that are known to be louder than others.
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