Only if they were aiming at motorcycles with loud pipes.
Even allowing for the sake of argument that loud pipes on a motorcycle do provide some non-negligible safety advantage while traveling at speed on a highway, that still doesn’t justify using them while cruising slowly up and down roads in residential areas.
If motorcycle riders were really making all that noise for the sake of safety rather than just waving their dicks around, they’d have the decency to quiet down when they’re dawdling in slow-traffic areas where the noise is going to bother people.
I hereby endorse the Muffin*Really Not All That Bright* 2012 presidential ticket.
a: I am not a fat asshole. B: like it or not, loud pipes do save lives. If you’ve ever ridden a motorcycle, then you realize that most of the people in cars can’t be bothered to pay attention to the other cars on the road. If you are on something as small as a motorcycle, you need something to get people to notice that you are there. Loud pipes (mine are unmodified, factory installed, and still fairly loud,) are a much more polite method than just riding with a .45 and using that to keep drivers aware that I’m out there. So why don’t you work on the real problem: most drivers in the US are terrible, and most of them don’t deserve to be behind the wheel of a car. You never see a biker cruising down the road texting, and i guarantee you (from experience,) my bike will do a hell of a lot less damage than even a very small car. If for no other reason than the sheer number of people who don’t know how to put their cell phone down while driving, loud pipes aren’t a luxury…they are a bleeding necessity. when you cagers learn to be aware of your surroundings, I’ll modify my bike to reduce the noise it makes, until then, go ahead and gnash your teeth, shake your fist at the sky and stew in your impotent rage. Also, OP, stop stereotyping people. It isn’t nice and it makes you seem like a bigot, prejudiced against those who don’t look or think the same as you. Not saying you are, but your original post sure does make it seem somewhat bigoted.
If you believe you can’t do something optional without annoying the shit out of your fellow human beings, stop doing it or accept you are a selfish asshole. It’s that simple.
What? That’s the best time to make noise as the cagers can safely take their eyes off their cell phone and gawk at the biker in all his leather clad splendor. 
I am a selfish asshole, unfortunately I don’t have loud pipes. Not that I wouldn’t like to have loud pipes. But being the selfish asshole that I am, I wouldn’t be able to bitch about the other selfish assholes if I had loud pipes too.
All that being said, the real selfish assholes are all the cagers doing everything but concentrating on driving their vehicle and the traffic around them. 
No, no they do not save lives.
And yes, I do ride a motorcycle, a 2004 Suzuki V-Strom 1000. I routinely do very long rides, all the while decked out in proper riding gear so that if some fat asshole in a car hits me, I’ll likely survive.
I do that vs destroying the peace of everyone around by riding some ridiculously loud motorcycle.
By the way, learn to use a carriage return the next time you post, though I’m sure getting that amount of coherence was difficult enough.
When somone comes up with pipes that are only loud to motorists who are not driving well, it’ll all be good.
I have a better solution, if you don’t feel motorcycles are safe. Take a car, idiot. You are quite the self entitled peace of shit. You have no right to ruin other people’s peace and quite.
Find me a car which gets 80 mpg.
I’m not a selfish asshole, I just don’t feel like flushing after I take a shit. I see other people do it, so don’t tell me I’m doing anything wrong. I don’t feel like touching the handle and getting all kinds of germs. Yeah, I know it probably annoys people to see and smell my turds rotting in the bowl. I don’t care. You whiny fuckers can just deal with it. Don’t tread on my bowels, bro.
If someone wanted to cut firewood with a chainsaw outside your window at 3AM, would you be OK with it? Firewood is for some a “bleeding necessity”- you want people to freeze to death?! If your answer involves another threat to use that .45, you’re making my point for me: people like you would never put up with the kind of behavior you’re demanding others to put up with.
I like how you’ve managed to combine swagger and whine (swine?). Seriously - Stereotyping? Prejudiced? Isn’t nice?! It’s so sad to see sociopathic assholes get their feelings hurt.
You’re racist against motorcycles, admit it.
Ah, yes - all drivers are awful people, hell bent on killing motorcyclists. But don’t you dare make sweeping statements about bikers, because that’s not fair! Irony.
May I introduce you to my Chevy Volt?
My office overlooks a freeway. You are correct that I don’t see bikers texting, but I often see them weaving through traffic at speeds much faster than the rest of traffic. (I can safely avoid them here at my desk thanks to the loud noises they make.)
I no longer see the guy who did wheelies down the freeway. I hope he stopped because he realized that was dumb.
The real trouble with motorcycles and cars is that motorcycles can truly become invisible. The human brain looks for visual cues. We see cars and trucks because they give those cues. Unusual vehicles capture our attention. Motorcycles don’t give those cues, but most aren’t visually unusual. For example, at night your brain looks for pairs of red lights. If the lights are widely separated, your brain decides a car is close. If the pair is close together, your brain decides a car is far away. If your motorcycle has a pair of tail lights, the brain of the driver behind you might interpret that visual cue as meaning a car is a great distance away, rather than deciding that a motorcycle is close.
You’re a skinny asshole?
It has nothing to do with whether we like it or not (we don’t) - loud pipes don’t save lives. You can keep saying it all you want, but that still doesn’t make it true.
[aside from another thread] Ah yes - all people who cannot stand listening to a baby squall on an airplane are awful people, hell bent on preventing anyone from bringing one on a trip. But don’t you dare make sweeping statements about mothers, because that’s not fair! Irony. [/afat]
While I don’t like loud pipes on bikes, whether or not anyone should have to put up with them depends on individual tolerance level. At least loud motorcycles tend to be transitory, as are cars with “music” cranked loud enough to hear from space which I personally hate with the heat of 1000 suns. If they are doing things like some folks have said here, sitting in the driveway and revving or driving up and down the street for no real reason, then I can see getting out the .45. OTOH, apparently the only reason that loud pipes exist, or the ability to shake windows with “music”, is to be an “look at me” asshole. So maybe we should just be able to shoot at those who are selfish assholes - and yes Meyer6 that would include some mothers.
This is so true. One of the things our club does is go to high school driver education classes and try to teach the new drivers to LOOK for us. I enjoy riding, but I try to never ride after dark because I don’t think that people see me.
A couple of years ago, I mounted flags on my backbar for a Patriot Guard run. It made a noticable difference in just one day.
Now, I’m going to get thrown out of the cool biker club by sharing this, but loud pipes can stop the rider from noticing what is happening around him/her.
One of my friends has moderatly loud pipes and is an EMT. He is constantly bitching about people not giving way to ambulances. We were riding along and I noticed an ambulance coming up behind us, sirens wailing and lights flashing. He didn’t notice, I had to speed up to get next to him and then gesture behind us before he would pull over.
Had that been a car honking its horn because it was out of control, my friend would have been smooshed.
C’mon, if you and another poster are sniping at each other (I looked, and it’s been quite a few back-and-forths, with lots of accusations of “No, you’re the drama queen!”), please don’t bring it over to other threads.