# Why are motorcycles so much louder than cars?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-motorcycles-so-much-louder-than-cars/752888>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 23, 2016, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-motorcycles-so-much-louder-than-cars/752888 "2016-04-23T12:27:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-motorcycles-so-much-louder-than-cars/752888/161 "2016-05-05T02:00:21Z")

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Somewhere out there Karma is looking for Chihuahua named Harley to be someone’s special neighbor.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-motorcycles-so-much-louder-than-cars/752888/162 "2016-06-05T02:57:06Z")

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I’ve been experiencing another phenomena as of late from the loud pipes crowd. At bike nights they go out of their way to rev their bikes up and drown out the band that’s playing. I’m talking right in front of the stage.

Do you REALLLLLLY need that much attention that you have to drown out live entertainment.

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